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From: loftis@hpcmm7.HP.COM (kirk loftis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP95LX Prices
Message-ID: <16160002@hpcmm7.HP.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 18:42:03 GMT
References: <1991May21.210213.22692@netcom.COM>
Organization: HP Corporate Procurement - Palo Alto, CA
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| >>
| >>Also, what do HP employees pay?  Yes, I _am_ that nosey.
| >>
| 
| >	$595.00. You d*mn real customers are buying so many 95's, 
| >	that they won't be available for "employee purchase" for
| >	quite some time. :-) :-) :-)
| 
| Huh?  If the street price (via 800 Lane and Discount Ave.) is 
| somewhere between $500 and $550, what is the incentive to wait
| and buy it at the company store?  Do you get financing, mileage
| credit, or green stamps?
| 
| I warned you I was nosey.
| Ric Bretschneider
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	Hello Ric,

	It might be hard to believe, but the company (HP) really does
not give us a great deal on purchases of PC or calculators (through the
employee purchase program).  When people ask me to get them a
calculator, I inform them that they can do just about as well at a
discount store and it will be brand new (Employee purchases might be
refurbished units - yes even the new products {they take the prototypes
and repackage them and sell them internally or to employees}).  

	This actually happenned.  On internal purchases, the orders are
placed at the lowest priority (yup, you customers will often get the
products and use them months before we can even get one).  At this one
site, they went out and purchased the unit from a store because they
could not wait for the internal shipments.  Not much of an incentive to
wait.

	Kirk