Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!olivea!orc!oliveb!felix!ung@felix.UUCP From: ung@felix.UUCP (Bill Ung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade for A1000 Owners! Message-ID: <163887@felix.UUCP> Date: 30 May 91 17:27:39 GMT Article-I.D.: felix.163887 References: <53010@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May13.070241.14668@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991May20.120055.8794@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: ung@felix.UUCP (Bill Ung) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 43 In article <1991May20.120055.8794@midway.uchicago.edu> zama@ellis.uchicago.edu (iftikhar uz zaman) writes: |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. Sure, lots of places have a 30 day price guarantee. If it goes on sale within 30 days of purchase, you can get the difference back. Two problems, #1, Commodore could lose a lot of money that way, processing refunds. #2, you'd still have all those folks who bought their A3000 31 days before the sale who would now be whining and bitching about how THEY got caught just a day or two short. #1+#2 means Commodore is out some serious bucks while not having truely alleviated the problem. | 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 Sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles (or ball bounces or whatever your favorite phrase is). Things just can't ALWAYS go your way. Bill Ung ung@felix.UUCP hplabs!felix!ung