Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 05:45:57 GMT References: <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <7514@vela.acs.oakland.edu><1991Jun26.175807.27917@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 77 griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes: >lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: > >>It is also very hard to pay one's bills when the machine one is trying >>to sell just is NOT selling. Go into Slipped Disk and ask how sales >>are. Generally they will tell you they're not that great. At least >>thats what they've been telling me. > >Ha! Slipped Disk is the only thing worse for Commodore's image than >Commodore itself. We can take this to email if you wish, and I'll tell >you why Slipped Disk not only deserves to go under (they've closed >their okemos store) but deserves to have Commodore pull their >authorization out from under them. Names, places, gory details, >shocking pictures reveal all! You'll never see Slipped Disk get their C= dealership pulled for a few reasons: #1 They are a volume dealer. They sold something like 120 A2000's in the month of December last year. Don't ask how many A500's... #2 Volume. Slipped Disk orders ALOT of units from Commodore. They have tried to arrange a distributorship with Commodore in the past(but fell through), and probably will in the future. #3 Sheldon Leemon. I think the guy knows more people at Commodore than some people at Commodore...He's been around, heck, for a long damn time. Probably since the P.E.T. days...Not every dealer has access to someone that writes for AmigaWorld either... #4 Volume! Last time I was in Slipped Disk they moved 40 C64's, sold them to Warren Consolidated Schools, complete with 1084 monitors..And then Jeff sells 3 A3000UX's just over the phone to top it all off...They get the business in Madison Heights, thats for sure.. #5 They are the only place you can go around here anyways(East Side of Metro Detroit, basically close to south Macomb County). CATS Co only has one guy who knows the Amiga and doesn't stock many. Rite Way is only interested in selling Atari Mega's. MicroWorld, well, MicroWorld didn't pay their bills to Commodore once upon a time, so they are no longer authorized and I believe they get their units from Slipped Disk..(Plus MW will screw you...I heard their mail order company MCS was selling A500 ram boards that had pulled rams in them as new) #6 Commodore is in no shape to pull any high volume dealer, especially in the Detroit area...I think Laurana doesn't talk to the same people at Slipped Disk that I have talked to...I mean, I call down there, and its like, "Ronald Kushner, oh, Life In Hell BBS right?" They know who I am as much as I know who they are...Actually, when someone pulls my name out of a hat like that, my mind starts going through paranoid dilutions...Anyways, with PowerUp, they have moved alot of units, I think I was told 50++ at the end of May...Commodore definatly sold the 900 units they wanted to if SD sold over 50.. #7 If any dealer around here could get Amigas, and make it well known, and give you very good support, Slipped Disk would go out of business on their own...Southfield, Okemos, Lovonia, and Saint Clair Shores stores all closing up shows they don't compete when there are other major choices..They just have the business that MicroWorld created in Macomb County and lost when they pissed everyone off...Even Warren Consolidated Schools has MW on a "shit" list...You might HATE SD, but people around here hate MW worse... I think the only reason MicroWorld is still around is the love/hate type of responce you get with Slipped Disk, they are like Bill Bonds, you either love him or wish he was dead(Bill Bonds is a local news archor that Channel 7 thinks is Detroits "News Christ", check last weeks Wall Street Journal for more info on Bill Bonds, Tuesday or Wed)...If I hadn't found Cats Co, I would have power'ed up at Michigan Micro in Lapeer...(having to order a unit, I would not order it from Slipped Disk, they probably had a waiting list a mile wide and three miles long, plus the price was the same everywhere) -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) The lack of money is the root of all evil.