Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!wehi.dn.mu.oz!baxter_a
From: baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Australia ... on the ball?READ/NEXT
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.234556.24642@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 28 Jun 91 23:45:56 GMT
References: <5249@orbit.cts.com>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
Lines: 24

In article <5249@orbit.cts.com>, chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
> billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Jeff Coleman) writes:
>>we are talking $800 for an a500 , another $500 for a 1084 
>>you can get a 286 with a 40mb HD for about $1500 including monitor....
>>so where are these ruinous taxes???
>>all prices are high
> 
> 
> Where do you get theses prices?  you can walk into any Software Etc. and buy a
> 500 for $499.00 dollars.  you can buy that 1084 for ~$285.00 dollars.  you can
> buy a hard drive and controller for ~$300.00 dollars.  
> 

A few days after you stop shooting up, you will feel all shakey and scared.
Then you will get all sweaty, and terrible pains in you belly. A few days 
after that, you will feel weak, but a little better. Then read news again.

The subject line refers to CBM in AUSTRALIA.
The posters complaining all have .OZ in their addresses.
The prices are AUSTRALIAN prices.
They are in AUSTRALIAN dollars.
We have never even heard of "Software etc".

Regards Alan