Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: A Good Deal? Message-ID: <149@bdt.UUCP> Date: 23 Feb 88 16:28:36 GMT References: <40.007051@adam.DG.COM> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 22 In article <40.007051@adam.DG.COM> writes: >I just called Computer Repeats INC, about their trade in deal (Brand >New Atari 520ST FM Mono for $299 with tradein of 1050 or $159 with >800XL computer) and was told that the ad was a misprint, that they >really meant "with trade in of an entire system, including monitor >and printer". Seemed kind of strange to me that the ad was >misprinted in two different months of Antic. I was wondering about >other people experiences. Every time I've called one of these places advertising ST hardware at unbelievable prices they have said: 1) "It was a mis-print" 2) "We changed our price" And then they quote a more "standard" discounted price. No big savings over the local computer store. I don't know how these places stay in business. -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"