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From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 18:51:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 18:51:24 1987
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In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>
>A Mac SE with 20Meg hard disk lists at $6150.  Of
>course, they'll need a printer as well:  another $1045.  And they'll need
>a printer cable: another $50.  After adding tax, the final results are:
>
>           PC-clone:   $1650.
>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)

What currency are those prices in?  Singapore dollars? :-)  That's pretty 
incredible.  Does Canada have some fantastic import duty on American comput-
ers or something?  If it does, I can't see what good blaming Apple will do.
Petition your government for a change in tariffs.   That's almost a 300% 
markup in US retail. 

Of course, there's always the possibility that Canada's considered part of
"international" sales.  If so, the prices become more believable.  I don't
have information on current recommended pricing, but back in 1982, Apple
routinely sold its equipment for 50% more than what the same equipment costs
here.  That was in turn used as a base pricing structure which dealers could
add import duties and taxes onto.

>Just for the record, I think a Mac SE should cost
>about $1800, with the hard disk version going for around $2500.  The printer
>is worth about $500.  If Apple would adopt such a pricing policy, I think

A Mac Plus (retail) with a (retail) hard disk costs about $2300, currently.
One can get the same system through the academic market for about $1800.  
Moreover, academic institutions working through Apple's school sales mech-
anism can get some REALLY low bids (I've seen some of the offers, and they're
way beneath anything the Consortium offers).



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