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From: xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (James Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple price reductions: for Higher Ed only
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Date: 10 Apr 89 00:29:36 GMT
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I work for the Personal Computing Center of Dartmouth.  We are the "campus
store."  We do mark up the prices a slight bit (about 10%), but the profit
from that goes right back into the budget for support, as well as other
things that help the end user.  Also, because we have special programs like
freshman distribution (where all freshman pick up the computers (read)         
Macintoshes they purchase from us), we can pass on great savings to the
students and faculty.

The bottom line is that even though we charge about cost + 10, the customers
get better deals than is possible in the "real" world, plus support that
one usually does not find in retail business.

-Jamie Osborne
xerox@mac.dartmouth.edu