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From: ewong@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong)
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Subject: Re: Educational discount reduction?
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Date: 31 May 91 21:37:19 GMT
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In article <19954@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> lindwall@beowulf.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall) writes:
>My brother recently purchased an A500P using the educational discount.
>I had encouraged him to make the purchase since I beleived that the
>educational discount would give him a savings of about 40%.  He tells
>me that he only saved about 12% or so.  Is the latest Educational Discount
>a lot worse then the older programs?  I used to follow the pricing closely,
>but the last list I saw was distributed right when Howard Diamond left.
>

The educational savings is 40%, but that tends to be off of the suggested
list price (That's the way it is up here in Canada).  As we all know, nobody
ever really sells anything at the manufacturer's suggested list price.  The 
dealers's cost is about 45% off SLP.  What this means is that his savings of
12% is probably what it should be compared to a local dealer (who ends up
making about a 17% profit).  Oh well, better to get 12% off than nothing. :-)

>((other stuff deleted))
>-- 
>John Lindwall			lindwall@cs.ucsd.edu
>"Oh look at me! I'm all flooby! I'll be a son of a gun!" -- Flaming Carrot



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