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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: Re: shrink-wrap copying...
Message-ID: <2809@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 88 18:13:53 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <788@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Eric Seitz) writes:
>In article <2281@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes:
>>
>>I know of a store in a big city in New Mexico that after they buy the
>>software to sell, they open up the package, copy it, and pass it to
>>a few of their friends, shrink-wrap it again, and put it back on the
>>
>
>The computer store I have worked at also did something similar to this.  We
>would make a copy of software to demonstrate and then reshrink-wrap it.
>The reason is that customer's keep wanting two otherwise mutually exclusive
>things: 1)  They want to see something demonstrated before they buy it and 2)
>they want a shrink-wrap fresh copy of software to buy.  We couldn't afford to 

Well, look. We're about to bring a new product to market. Are you saying
we shouldnt bother shrimk wrapping it, and that the store will do it for
us ?

*My, how conveeeeenient.*



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