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From: anson@elrond.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Flames about Multifinder
Message-ID: <1224@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 09:36:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: elrond.1224
Posted: Tue Sep  8 09:36:26 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 04:19:39 EDT
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Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson, NH, USA
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In article <1672@sputnik.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>3)  You wanna play, you gotta pay.
>
>Besides, $49 hardly pays Apple for distribution and disk costs.  And if $49
>is so steep, download it from your local BBS or Authorized User's Group.

I don't mind paying for value.  What bothers me is being forced to buy from
Apple dealers *only*.  Of the $49 I suppose at least $25 is for the dealer,
and frankly, passing through a dealer's hands doesn't add $25 in value.  If
I could get it from APDA, or from one of the mail order houses, I would be
much happier -- not because it would cost less (it would), but because it
would be a lot less hassle.

I'm very busy.  It takes me something like an hour and a half to make a trip
to the Apple dealer.  It takes me five minutes to order it over the phone,
and I get it quicker -- except nobody offers to take telephone orders for
Apple software.

I wish Apple would reconsider their apparent distribution policy.  I wish
they would make their software a bit easier to get.
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   Ed Anson,    Calcomp Display Products Division,    Hudson NH 03051
   (603) 885-8712,      anson@elrond.CalComp.COM