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From: billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Jeff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Australia ... on the ball?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.110243.14567@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:02:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.111350.8458@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4457@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <1991Jun16.042104.17698@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In <1991Jun16.042104.17698@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <4457@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker) writes:
>> Yes, they are OK are far as mass-marketing goes.  But for any real service,
>> they are *EXTREMELY* unresponsive.

>Well, in the U.S. they depend on the dealer network for first-strike service.
>The only real Amiga store in Houston is run by folks who are so full of
>themselves that even other computer sales folks are embarassed to be in the
>same business.

>And, remember, Australia is run by the unions. Be glad you get any service.

 do i detect an excuse for a bit of union bashing ???

 I don't see what this has to do with the argument..most places that
 "support" Amiga are just private computer shops.

>Near as I can recall the only place you could ever get support on *anything*
>was with Dick Smith. Maybe you need to get *them* to stock the Amiga?

 Why ??? we already have enough places (KMART etc) that sell the amiga as
 a games machine... Dick smith do the same with the atari ST.

 What i think roddi means(if he doesn't i'm sure he'll say so ;-) is that
 the problem in australia is that commodore's main priority is getting 500's
 out the door to parents of school age children "because their education 
 depends on it"(the add blurb). And thats basically it. Compared to the 
 interest C= guys have in the US (even reading this stuff) C=(AUS) is staffed 
 by marketing types who only read sales balances....these are the same people
 who weren't interested in donating a 3000 to a major user group but were 
 willing to spend $1 million at christmas on TV adds.


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