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From: sdfusc@mac.cc.macalstr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Plato Computers
Message-ID: <1991May22.211813.585@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 03:18:13 GMT
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In article <1991May22.015227.24550@swbatl.sbc.com>, ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) writes:
> In article <1991May21.204508.3427@HQ.Ileaf.COM> ltaylor@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Laura Taylor) writes:
>>I called Plato Computers myself to find out if they were
>>offering monitors with their A3000s for the Power Up Upgrade
>>and they said that no they weren't. They said that they did
>>this for a few people, but aren't doing it anymore.
> 
>    This is true guys.  I am sorry to say that Commodore stopped him from 
> continuing the offer.  It appears that a few dealers caught wind of this and
> through a fit to Commodore.  

	Gee, I wonder why?  Maybe the fact that the dealer kit from Commodore
contained one letter from the distributor stating that the deals couldn't be
mixed, and another from the Vice President of CBM sales stating that the
Power up deal couldn't be mixed with any other promotions made them wonder
what PLATO was doing?  Dealers weren't supposed to be confused when they began 
to lose customers to another place offering something that their contracts 
expressly forbid them from offering?

>Commodore checked into it, admitted that it was
> their falt on the wording of the offer to the dealers, and asked him to stop 
> selling (or was it giving) these systems away.  

	Their fault?  I doubt it.  If the dealer had read his contract
carefully enough, or listened to people who called him questioning the deal, he
might have done better.  Instead he spread misinformation and tried to pull a
fast one over on Commodore and his distributor.  

>The bottom line is, the 
> winers won.

	Oh really?  Sounds to me like you don't care where the deal comes from,
as long as its cheap.  I assume you wouldn't have cared if the monitors had
been stolen from other dealers (essentially they were)?  It didn't bother you
that by scamming his distributor this guy was selling at a figure that was
probably BELOW dealer cost?

>  OH well, hope you were one of the lucky 15 that actually got
> the deal.  What can I say, I was one of the poor slobs that paid the BIG 
> BUCKS last year when the box came out, but I'm not complaining, I've had my 
> killer A3000 for a year now, and have gotten an extra years enjoyment out
> of it.    
>                                    See ya all later, Mike...
> 
>>
>>/laura
> 
> 
> -- 
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>       Mike Kraml - Manager-Finance MECHANIZATION - SWBT - (the HARD Hack)
>           UUCP: {uunet, bellcore, texbell}...!swbatl.sbc.com!ammrk   
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Gee Mike, maybe you should have thought before you started posting
misinformation all over the nets.  Aren't you the user who told use every
dealer got the free monitor, but that only PLATO was giving them away free? 
There was a tasty bit of misinformation, considering the fact that NO dealer
received the free monitor with the power up deal.  When I called Plato and 
asked what was up, the guy on the other end of the phone told me how STUPID 
his distributor was, how if he filled out seperate forms, he could get both 
deals.  Doesn't sound very honest, does it?  Maybe you should think before you
flame every dealer in the country for trying to find out who was illegally
undercutting them.

						Doug
						SDFUSC@MACALSTR.EDU