Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: Raw end of the deal... Message-ID: <1991Jun21.153407.26052@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 15:34:07 GMT In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes: > > Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, >explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? > Because Commodore is different in each nation. There is a totally different marketing company for each country, each free to make its own policies, marketing decisions, and pricing. -- Ethan "...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."