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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
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Subject: Re: A problem with Commodore shipping..
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Date: 7 Jun 91 15:54:55 GMT
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In article <13351@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> amiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing) writes:
>If it's any consolation, it will be 4 weeks this Friday (6/7) that I've been
>waiting for an A3000-25/50 I ordered on the PowerUp program.  Unfortunately
>we're probably about as far away as you can get from a distributor, so it may
>taken even longer than average for it to arrive.  Sadly I'll probably be 
>making my first loan payment on the machine before I even get my hands on it.
>*sigh*  :-(

This is certainly not official, but is the way the local Amiga dealer
explained why these orders take so long:

Dealers can only have *ONE* outstanding Powerup order at a time! This
means that they can't send in the next order until the last one gets
delivered. This is why my order, which I placed three weeks ago hasn't
even been officially ordered.

Now, understand that this isn't really the way C= wants things
handled.  They want the dealers to purchase A3000's at full dealer
price to have in stock when a Power-up purchaser walks in the door.
The dealer LOOSES money on this machine, but can recover his losses buy
selling powerup machines at full price when they come in at some later
date (one at a time).  Unfortunately, this dealer cannot afford to
handle things this way as they won't sell as many machines in the while
next year as have been ordered via Power-up.

Thankfully, this dealer explained the situation to me before I placed
my order. I understood that it would probably take over two months
before my machine could come in, due to the backlog of Power-up orders
at this particular store. With this in mind, we worked out a deal where
I didn't pay for the whole machine up front.

This description may be completely wrong, and I may have really screwed
up, but it certainly sounds plausible for C= to have done things this
way.

Hope I get mine before you get yours :^)

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882
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