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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7.0 bundling
Message-ID: <53197@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 May 91 01:05:28 GMT
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drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
|In article <7467@mace.cc.purdue.edu> omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John 
|O'Malley) writes:
|> 
|> For users who receive coupons with new CPUs, they send the coupon and a
|> copy of the Macintosh sales receipt to Apple.
|
|That's great for individuals, but not so good for large companies with 
|purchasing and accounts payable departments that eat invoices and sales 
|receipts. This is often a problem with software upgrades where it's free 
|if you bought the software after a certain date. Quite often, I just pay 
|the upgrade fee rather than try to get a copy of the invoice or receipt. 
|In this case, we'll probably have to tell people to get the software from 
|someone else and to buy the manuals if they really want them.

That's a good point, and I hope you'll feed it back to the Apple USA
or System 7 hotline.

As a partial help, please remember that there are network upgrade kits
and 3packs of documentation sets for sale at your dealer.

bill coderre