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From: hodad@ut-emx.UUCP (Will Fiveash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga dealers in Austin,Tx
Keywords: Flame-o-rama
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Date: 31 Oct 88 01:21:35 GMT
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In <article 20583@emx> (Donald A Kassebaum writes)

>	The Amiga 1000s were given to UT by Commodore/Amiga not Byte by Byte.

	Well, the people at the micro lab told me that the Byte by Byte
people delivered the computers there.  The point here is that the Amigas
have languished under an attitude of apathy and neglect.  Why the apathy
and neglect?  Maybe a more comprehensive and coordinated advertising
campaign that includes dealer participation in ad placement might help?
Why not update the 1000s that are there to 2000s with a decent size hard
disk and put some usefull applications on them.  
	BTW, This lab I speak of is brimming with Mac SEs, has a couple of Mac
IIs, and several PS/2 model 50s.  Most of the people that go in there use 
the wordprocessing programs available in the lab so why not have some 
Amigas in there with that and more so these potential buyers can see what 
they are missing?

>	There is another store in town that sell Amigas, ever hear of
>	AB Computers.

	Yes, but being worse than a non-entity they have aquired a
reputation for unethical customer treatment.  They tried to sell a friend
of mine (Bob Sheldon - he wanted me to mention his name) a broken 500 out
of the box as a new one.  They sold another person an external drive that
was broken and when he went back to the store they told him that it would
have to be sent back to the factory instead of either giving him a new unit
or his money back.
	I do agree with many of the other points your raise Don!

	Will Fiveash,
	"It takes a Meg to play, it takes a Guru to cry."