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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LaserWriter II NTX et al. to Students
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Date: 22 Mar 89 18:00:56 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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I just received a faculty/staff/student price list
dated March 13, 1989. All these products are listed
as available. Apologies, however, there is a footnote
saying that students are *not* eligible to purchase
the NT and NTX. The footnote is much less visible in
the previous price list but was included there, too.

Since I am staff and not a student, I sympathize but
am not affected.

Steve Goldfield

P.S. I also received notice of a very strange Apple
rebate program running through February and March.
It's strange in two ways: first that the announcement
apparently went out at the end of the period of
eligibility and in some secrecy. You have to make
a purchase by March 31 to get in on the rebates.

Second, the rules for the rebate are quite arcane.
You have to buy a system and a peripheral. Then
you figure the rebate on the system(s) and the rebate
on the peripheral(s) and you get the lesser of the
two. So unless you spend a very large amount of money
(rebates on single systems are much less than rebates
on expensive peripherals) such as buying many systems,
the actual rebate won't be very large. Example, the
rebate on a Mac II HD 40 is $800, largest system rebate.
The rebate on an NTX is $3500. But you'd have to buy 5
Mac IIs to get the $3500.

Note that although there are large rebates on memory
expansion kits, they count as peripherals, not as part
of the system.

I guess you could call this "The Case of the Phantom
Rebates." I can see John Sculley knocking at your
door with a large check pretending to be Ed McMahon.

Steve Goldfield