Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!ellis.uchicago.edu!zama From: zama@ellis.uchicago.edu (iftikhar uz zaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade for A1000 Owners! Message-ID: <1991May20.120055.8794@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 20 May 91 12:00:55 GMT References: <53010@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May13.070241.14668@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: U of Chicago Lines: 27 In article stevex@artech.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) writes: >In article <1991May13.070241.14668@midway.uchicago.edu> zama@ellis.uchicago.edu (iftikhar uz zaman) writes: >>Yeah....it is sour grapes...Though I wouldn't yell at commodore >>for their generosity I was a little bummed out--after months of >>saving (about six months), selling off my PCXT etc. I bought >>my A3000 *days* before the new power-up deal was announced.... >>Sob... > >Most people would demand that they get some money from Commodore because the >price went down. I look at this the same way I would look at Commodore trying >to get more money from you because the price went up. > ...Steve's Signature (when Steve's at work)... Well, I would really *love* to demand this...but when you buy a product do you have any imlplicit or explicit guarantee that the price won't go down the next day? Seriously. If yes, I'd love to write CBM. On the other hand, I have known various business people return money to me in similar situations--and I *have* been very grateful for this...(hint hint)... A lot of this disappointment, of course, was because I *had* waited for a hell of a long time--and somehow managed to go to the store at just the wrong time! Iftikhar