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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
Message-ID: <17322@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 05:12:57 GMT
References: <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun24.003834.4258@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7515@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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In article <7515@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>Inactivity is as much of a screwup in my mind as trying something and
>doing it wrong.

	 But CBM hasn't been inactive!  They are stretching limited resources very
far already.  I'm not saying those resources might not be better used in other
pursuits in some cases, but don't think the folks at CBM are sitting around
waiting for things to happen.

>First off, he wasn't expecting Commodore to pay all his bills and that
>wasn't what I was implying. Commodore did promise more advertising and
>greater dealer support at their dealer's conference and neither has
>been forthcoming. 
>
>Also, Commodore didn't tell Al that he only needed $1,000 to co-op an
>ad, they wanted $10,000. Thats TEN-THOUSAND. A little bit MORE than a
>THOUSAND. Al probably could have handled a thousand, but ten-thousand
>is a different story.
>
     I'm not exactly sure what you're speaking of here, but I do know that CBM
offers a co-op fund to its authorized dealers so that a small percentage of
the cost of each product sold goes into a co-op fund from which the dealer
can draw money pending approval from Commodore, which is generally easy to get.
I've never heard of there being some kind of fee to do this.
	 BTW, Apple had a similar system until recently, but word is it's being
dropped because the lower profit margins on the new "low cost" systems aren't
high enough to warrant it.  (Hmmm... bet they're still making more per unit
than CBM is...)

>They're going to have to find the money from someplace. Ever heard the
>phrase: "You have to spend money to make money?"

     They _are_ spending money, and they _are_ making money... 
	 Believe it or not, CBM _is_ advertising regularly places that count...
Unix Today, and similar journals, for instance.  James Dionne has been making
the rounds at various publications making sure they have the opportunity to
see CDTV in action...



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