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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Commerce dept. to levy duties on 3.5" floppies
Message-ID: <13515@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 20 Oct 88 08:02:20 GMT
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Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
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In article <12166@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>This week's issue of MacWeek reports that the U.S. Commerce
>Department's Import Administration has voted to impose duties on
>Japanese-manufactured 3.5" microdisks, ruling that these disks and
>their coated media "are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United
>States at less than fair value."  The ruling was made in response to a
>complaint filed in February by Verbatim, a subsidiary of Eastman
>Kodak.                         ^^^^^^^^

 To borrow a phrase, "that really chaps my hide." In my experience,
Verbatim disks are the **WORST** made... many fail to initialize, have
problems with bad media, etc. They even do sleazy things like put labels
on their disks that say "double-sided," when in fact the disk is single-
sided, and pulling off the label reveals as much (printed on the disk).

 And now they're complaining about competition from the Japanese
manufacturers. I don't think it's a price issue, or even a price/quality
ratio issue -- it's strictly a matter of quality when it comes to disk
purchases (for most people). If they made a good disk, they could compete,
but they don't, so instead they attempt to bring down those who do.

 Time to stock up on Kao disks, I suppose...

Moof.



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