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From: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: A wierd thought...
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Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 10:53:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 10:53:39 1986
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In article <672@osu-cgrg.UUCP> marc@osu-cgrg.UUCP (Marc Howard) writes:
>> Here is a question, for the sake of discussion:  What if Tandy had bought
>> Amiga instead of CBM (or if Tandy and CBM got together)?  
>> 
>> My $.02:
>> 1) CBM has never marketted a product of the Amiga's caliber in the US.
>> 2) Tandy has good advertising, good relationship with the public, and
>> .  already markets several products that are used in the same market that
>> .  the Amiga PC seems to fit into.
>> 3) Tandy has thousands of support and sales centers all over the place.
>...
>If Tandy is soooo good at making computers then why is it when I go into
>ANY Radial Slack store and buy something the clerk writes up my receipt
>using a "BICwriter" and a pad w/carbon paper copies????  Don't they trust
>their own machines and/or personnel????
>...

As an ex RS employee, I can answer this one.  No, they do not
trust their personnel.  At night, they do enter the transactions
from the "carbon" into a Model IV.  This information is used to
assist in ordering, stocking, and auditing, but the carbons are
a "check" against theft.  Employees are also polygraphed before
being hired, and audited daily.  A lost "pink copy" can cost you
your job.

By the way, Tandy's marketing organization IS very good, but their
engineering is always "last year's product at next years price".
Just compare audio equipment, Video equipment, or any of their
other products, to competitors products.  Expect Tandy to come
out with an "Amiga Class" or "ST class" computer sometime around
the end of 1987.

To be fair, Tandy is a good company.  Their stores are company
owned, not franchises, which means managers and sales clerks
have less to lose than the company.  They are also much more
concerned with reliability than price/performance.  If machines
go bad, Tandy stands to lose more than the Full Retail Price.