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From: cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: About to Power Up: Give 'em the money first?
Keywords: Power Up, Buying a Computer, Cash, Delivery Time
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.031909.14267@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 03:19:09 GMT
References: <6601@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
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In article <6601@trantor.harris-atd.com> mwills@x102a (wills ms 01309) writes:
>Just as a sanity check... I'm about to "Power Up" from my Amiga 1000
>to an Amiga 3000-25/50 and the dealer wants all the money up front,
>even though he estimates that I won't receive the machine until mid
>July.
>
>Is this standard?  If Commodore requires him to send the money in with
>the order, then I understand.  Even if they don't, he incurs some risk
>that I might not take delivery (for the sake of discussion, I have no
>such intention), but in such a case perhaps Commodore would then allow
>him to return the machine, reducing his risk (and increasing
>Commodore's).

One datapoint:  I had to wait two weeks for mine, but was told that
this was because I was 2nd on the list.

See, the dealer has to process 1 A3000, wait for CBM to send another
machine, and so forth...  My dealer said that at the rate things were
going, she wouldn't be done with the deal until August.

On the other hand, I paid for it when I got it -- the way it worked
was that CBM sent one machine, she sold it, and requested another
machine.  Repeat as necessary.  It sounds like either your dealer is
pulling a fast one or CBM has changed how things work (which *is*
possible -- there was a meeting of CBM execs a couple days after I got
mine, I'm told to discuss distribution problems).  It's also possible
that an up-front payment is required for anything past Jun 30.

I'd call CBM and verify with them.  I'd suspect that they can pull his
plug if he's out of line.
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