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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Evils Of Mail Order
Message-ID: <5950@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 22:25:45 GMT
References: <3039@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
Lines: 27

In article <3039@louie.udel.EDU> gaspar@almsa-1.arpa (Al Gaspar) writes:
>
>    ....Some people may have
>    an Amiga dealer near them with hundreds of software titles and
>    dozens of third party peripherals and add ons, but I sure don't.

Doesn't sound like you have a decent dealer in your area.  The one I frequent
orders anything he doesn't have in stock, and discounts the prices somewhat.
Most of his Amiga selection is actually software; his hardware selection
consists of the 500 & 2000, a 512K board for the 500, add-on floppies, and the
Bridge card.  However, he can and will order anything else (and it usually
arrives within two days due to dealing with large distributors).

People, I hear you complaining about the great dearth of selection of Amiga
products at local dealers.  Most of you mail-order *everything*; thus, the
dealers see no demand for Amiga products.  So they don't carry them, and the
cycle repeats itself.  It's the same way everywhere I've been.

This is something I can see local user groups doing for the community:  invite
the local dealers to a meeting some time, and SHOW them how many potential
customers they have!  This cuts both ways, of course:  if they start carrying
products, someone has to buy them.  Many dealers give price breaks to members
of user groups -- an incentive to get people to join.  Sure, dealers can be
bozos -- but they can smell money to be made (or lost).  They tend not to take
chances cheating people when they can lose 80 customers real quick.

	Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek