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From: s8922967@ipc04.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: power-up deal
Keywords: power-up
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Date: 3 Jun 91 03:33:55 GMT
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In article <1684@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks) writes:
>All this talk about power-up deals and educational discounts
>and A3000s for US$2100. Why can't C= Australia do the same thing? Down
>here I'd have to sell my car to buy one, even though I qualify for both.
>Soon I won't be at Uni. I don't know if this is a blessing (full time
>paid employment) or a curse (no edu discount).
>
>			Sigh.
>		
>Any on e got an A3000 for A$3000? (which is about US$2100 last I
>looked)?
>
>Paul Brooks        |Internet: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
>Uni. of N.S.W.     |If you have trouble sleeping, try lying on the end of
>Kensington NSW 2033|   your bed. With a little luck you'll drop off. 
>AUSTRALIA          |                              - Mark Twain. 

BBIIGG EECCHHOO to that. I agree totally. Here down in oz we hear about all
the great deals you guys get overseas but rarely get to see anything like it
down here. Commodore sells many more Amigas down here per population than
it probably does in the US, so it certainly should be able to afford it.
Or maybe that is the exact reason why there is no edu discount here but 
is in the US: we are here a market that doesn't require as big an effort
therefor 
e don't get as good a deal while with the US market declining most of
C's effort is going there to save the sinking ship.

I am in about the same position as Paul in that I'm last year therefore
any possible edu discount runs out soon if it ever arrives. If I could
get the A3000 for a comparable price to the US$2100 - ie ~$A3000 then
I would go for it about as fast as I could get the money out of the
bank. 3000 for a 3000 yes!

Another thing is that we here were supposedly getting discount for buying
an Amiga thru the CompShop but when I compared prices with ads in local
mags the prices were most certainly not discounted.

Cya, Murray

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Murray Gilbert   s8922967@ipc04.mqcs.mq.oz.au    Macquarie University
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