Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!grue From: grue@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Adam Eberbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Australia ... on the ball? Message-ID: <1991Jun15.031359.29332@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 15 Jun 91 03:13:59 GMT References: <1991Jun13.111350.8458@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia. Lines: 51 In <1991Jun13.111350.8458@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. A great pity that they don't try to take some business market share. They should be trying to sell machines like 3000's and 2000's with all the extras. The 500 is a fine machine (Which incidentally at $900 Aus is a ripoff. K-Mart are now selling them at $700 Aus. Is it worth mail ordering yet? :-) ) but it's not the one that's going to win the machine wars. Shouldn't be too hard to convince a Mac owner to save some money and get a better machine anyway, but they're not doing it. Most of those sales people in the department stores don't know enough about the machines to be able to sell them. Amiga owners are the best marketing tools C= has, but they have to make an effort of their own. > Decent advertisements were displayed with the machines. Grace > Brothers had their home computer section flanked by Commodore > ads. I just wish they would do some advertising in the press, TV. They did have one ad but it showed little more than a lot of games, with voice-overs of kids saying "Wow!" > Grace Brothers also said the 500 was their best selling machine. Of all? Good to hear, but I think a lot of those sales are being taken away from Nintendo or Sega, rather than Apple/Clone makers. >I don't know about their support for high end machines, but Commodore US >could learn something from them on selling 500s. I don't think they do support High end machines. I have a 2500 and the only place I get support is from the people I bought it from. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' . > 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" >(Back from vacation back home in Australia) BTW, can anyone tell me when we're going to see a PAL Video Toaster that works in the A3000? A friend of mine manages a major Melbourne film+video production house, and they're just screaming out to see a system to beat the Mac's Avid system (which is about $40,000 !) I'm pushing in the right direction of course :-). Adam Eberbach grue@phoenix.uu.pub.oz.au