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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is there really no better value?
Summary: Tandy & Sears
Keywords: TANDY PRICES
Message-ID: <2907@rti.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 02:17:49 GMT
References: <1454@csm9a.UUCP> <2821@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <2821@pegasus.ATT.COM>, psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
> In article <1454@csm9a.UUCP>, japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
> > (These prices are based on the price at the CSM Bookstore and thus represent
> > an educational pricing... this is done SINCE I have no idea what the pricing
> > for these computers is outside of the educational market and most Usenet
> > readers are academics anyway!)
> 
> Speak for yourself, Joe.-)  Besides, what you're saying is that IBM
> offers a much steeper educational discount for the package you're
> interested in.

Tandy list prices ARE rather on the high side.

But then, I don't think very many people in their right minds will
buy something expensive from them unless it's on sale.

It's like Sears used to be (I haven't been there since it changed, so
I can't make much of a comment on whether the change is very great):
there, too, the prices tended to be high unless the item was on sale.
But if you could contain yourself until what you wanted WAS on sale, 
the discount was sufficient that you could usually pick up pretty
decent stuff at a reasonable price.  I think in a lot of respects
Tandy is similar.

Just my personal observations.

						Bruce C. Wright