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From: msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Re: Tandycentricity
Message-ID: <9185@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 17:23:21 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.9185
Posted: Mon Dec 16 17:23:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Dec-85 05:52:00 EST
References: <13850@rochester.UUCP> <582@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: profit!!!

In article <582@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>...   But the real problem is in why Joe Blow even wants to consider
>the $70 drive in the first place- the equivalent Tandy drive is 
>listed in the catalog at 199.95. 
>
>   Tandy's memory prices seem to be even worse. The 128K RAM upgrade kit
>for the Tandy 1000 (26-5162) is listed at $129.95. 
>The 4164 chips can be ordered mail order for less than $1 a piece with the
>block costing a whopping nickel. Why, therefore, is Tandy making an 800%
>profit??!! (Tandy still also wants $119.95 for an 8K upgrade for the Model
>100; several companies offer comparable upgrades for ~$30.)

I just bought, mail order, a model IVD with 2 drives, Deskmate and
all the jazz that comes with it.  It cost me $889.00  Tandy sells
a new model IV for $1299.00.  I also just bought 24K of ram for my model 100
for $87.00 where Tandy would have charged me $359.85 without installation.
That is a 413% markup.  (Doesn't the company that charged me $87 have
to make money too?)

The reason that I think that Tandy charges so much is because most
people don't know how to install ram chips by themselves, and don't
even realize that the same chips can be bought for much less through
mail order.  Also Tandy probably thinks that if just one out of *8
individuals buys their ram chips, that they have made just as much profit as 
the company that sold to the other 7.  And, Tandy knows that more people
would trust them for their own product than another company that operates
through mail order. (* this is a random number)

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