Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Commodore Australia ... on the ball? Message-ID: <1991Jun13.111350.8458@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 11:13:50 GMT Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 22 I know Aussies on the net flame about Commodore Australia, but for the past ten days, while I was back home for my brother's wedding, I noticed: Every department store I went into was selling Amiga 500s. The price for the machine was A$900, or about US$700. Given the horrible sales tax on computers, that's a killer price. I saw 286 based PCs for over $2000. Decent advertisements were displayed with the machines. Grace Brothers had their home computer section flanked by Commodore ads. Grace Brothers also said the 500 was their best selling machine. I don't know about their support for high end machines, but Commodore US could learn something from them on selling 500s. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" (Back from vacation back home in Australia)