Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Australia ... on the ball? Message-ID: <1991Jun19.003115.23764@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 00:31:15 GMT References: <4457@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <1991Jun16.042104.17698@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun17.110243.14567@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <1991Jun17.110243.14567@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Jeff Coleman) writes: > do i detect an excuse for a bit of union bashing ??? Who needs an excuse? > 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. Because the Dick Smith sales people are (or at least used to be) competant. > 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... Yes, you can't depend on just marketers. But they *must* be doing something right. How do they sell the 500 so cheaply down under? Equivalent 286 boxes have ruinous luxury taxes attached. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"