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From: ram@tellabs.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP95LX Prices
Message-ID: <6255@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 1 Jun 91 16:45:07 GMT
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In article <16160002@hpcmm7.HP.COM> loftis@hpcmm7.HP.COM (kirk loftis) writes:
>| >>Also, what do HP employees pay?  Yes, I _am_ that nosey.
>| >	$595.00. You d*mn real customers are buying so many 95's, 
>| 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
>	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
>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}).  

Well, I don't know what division you work for, but my roommate got his 48SX
and 128K memory card for HALF list price (better than Educalc or ElekTek)
from his cousin (HP employee) and they were both definitely new when he got
them!  Other HP employees that I know have also told me the internal price
is 1/2 list.  I can see why availability might be limited right now, but
the prices are definitely right!

Bob
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