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From: rjung@sal22.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Computer Mail Order, Inc. looooong shipping delay
Summary: No ST's to dealers?
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Date: 7 Mar 88 16:49:06 GMT
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In article <8803022013.AA23316@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> #FJMORA@WMMVS.BITNET writes:
>And some retailers complain that since Atari purchased Federated, they
>dump all the STs they make into the Federated warehouse, and that
>independant retailers just can't have STs. Is that true?

  Not from what I've heard. There's a local Atari-only store near L.A.
called Logical Choice, and they've been getting Mega ST's and other hardware
without problems. I've heard, however, that there is a shortage of ST's in
America in general (apparently they're going over to Europe, where everybody
is buying them like hotcakes [can anyone confirm?])...Seems us AmericAtarians
will have to wait awhile...

  On a similar vein, Sam Tramiel/Neil Harris admitted on GEnie that they've
been neglecting the US market quite a bit, to focus on overseas sales...


						--R.J.
						B-)
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