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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: COMSPEC ...
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 13:47:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 13:47:01 1986
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In article <375@ccivax.UUCP>, rb@ccivax.UUCP writes:
>In article <403@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>>When you have high demand and not much competition, you will see high
>>prices if the people selling are trying to make maximum profits.
>>At least with the open nature of the Amiga, you people will probably not
>>have to wait that long!
> 
> Is that why Lotus 1-2-3 is still running $495, and color cards are
> still $300.

  How about Osborne's Lotus clone for $99, and a color card for $75 (I've seen 
both - yeah, they don't have "IBM" stamped on 'em, but then, neither do the
things YOU'RE talking about).

  I was real tempted to cross-post to net.philosophy, so someone could tell
me the name of the logical fallacy you have presented here.  Manufacturers
price according to what they can get from the marketplace, not according to
some "magic formula" related to the price of the machine.  As it happens,
people who buy expensive machines are generally willing to pay expensive
peripheral prices, so the manufacturers (not unwisely) price their stuff
accordingly.  THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL VALUE OF THE MERCHANDISE!
An example - it is possible to buy an IBM PC expansion hard disk/controller
setup, with a 20M disk, for $1500 - I've seen this price from a couple of
distributors.  It is also possible to buy the same equipment for $450, the
only difference being the name stamped on the outside of the carton.

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