Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Leiser Superstores SUCKS Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 18:02:18 GMT References: <56580@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 80 PYC118%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Rasiel) writes: >I don't know how popular Leiser Superstores are anywhere outside of New Englan >but here in Rhode Island and Connecticut they're all over. Although they're >unfortunately one of the few electronics stores to carry Amigas I'd have to >strongly recommend anyone against buying one from them. I could say the same thing about Highland Applicance...Beware of anyplace that never stops having a "SALE SALE SALE!!" Just give them time, with the recession, they will go out of business. Highland recently pulled out of New England and Texas because of hundreds of millions of dollars in losses...Plus they sell garbage second rate equipment...Heck, everything I ever bought from stores like this (the deep discount chains that have sales 363 days a year) has always died within 2 years anyways... I will bet you the profit margins on the clones are higher, or they have a million of them piled up in a whorehouse somewhere they gotta get rid of.. Who wants a "GOLDSTAR" anyways? Is that the model they tryed to push on you?? I would have giving him my usual foreign shit spiel I always give these people. Especially when he pushes such an product with an well known foreign name tag on it...I would ask if it was dumped here below market value in their home country...Those Asian companies are good for that these days...Just look at RAM, monitors and cars...now add cheap clones to that list... Want an idea what kind of power in this country these Asian companies have? Lets say a Japanese minivan is unloaded from the boat in Long Beach, CA...Four inspectors line up to look at it. You got the guy from the Enviromental Protection Agency who looks at it and says its a truck, and will only have to meet emissions standards for U.S. trucks, which naturally are not as strict as cars. Next the guy from the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration, who vertifies that it is indeed a truck so it won't have the same safety devices as a car. And comes the inspector from the Department of Transportation who also agrees that the vehicle is a truck so it won't have to meet the higher fuel economy requirements of a car. But then comes the fourth inspector. He's from the Customs Service. He looks at the Japanses minivan and says, "Nope, this isn't a truck at all, it's a car!" And that means it only pays duty of 2.5 percent instead of the 25 percent duty on trucks...This sounds like Bermuda Triangle stuff, but again there's no mystery about it. It's because the $100 million dollar Japan lobby in Washington has been writing America's trade rules... I found that in a LA Times article written by Lee Iacocca....Not that I like everything he says, because he's really a socialist at heart...But the people who wrote this for him knew what they were talking about...(can we call this the Reagan syndrome?) It shows how defensive we should be towards ANY foreign products, and American products that use alot of foreign parts. Its not that these foreign companys have a soft spot in their hearts for American consumers, they want to control the market so one day they can dictate prices...So watch out for Goldstars, Hyundai, NEC, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba(REALLY WATCH OUT FOR THESE BASTADS, THEY SELL U.S. SECRETS TO TO SOVIETS AND BUY FORGIVENESS FROM CONGRESS FOR $49 MILLION), and others with strange names...You gotta get on Apple and Commodore's case who will get on Motorolla to get production of 680x0's out of Malaysia....Plus all the third party producers of 680x0 cards as well... I would also love to tell you to avoid Commodore monitors, but going through Computer Shopper, it looks like Goldstar, AOC, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony allready dictate the monitor market, making it impossiable to avoid them. Its a matter of time now until they start pushing the prices up... If you wonder why I keep going on with this...You should see the unemployment lines around here. They go around the building now, and those have to be new claims, because they mail out checks now...And this isn't something new, its been like that since 1989...Heck, when the auto industry hurts, IBM hurts, because the "big three" are the largest customers of IBM, and the transplants are not going to IBM like the domestics do...And this isn't PC business, this is OTHER stuff IBM does for them...And most everyone that moved to Texas and the sun belt in the 80's have moved back because there are no jobs there either...And if you want to see what will happen to California when the Japanese totally take over the computer industry, take a tour of Detroit and imagine it without rain...Its the roadmap of the FUTURE! Take a stand now, or cry later in the unemployment line... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. 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