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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: APDA Price reducations
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Date: 6 May 89 21:45:10 GMT
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LWELCH@COLGATEU.BITNET writes:
>The most recent APDAlog talks for a little while about how it has reduced
>prices for items on the Apple // and Mac technical notes.  But, the only
>actual price reduction is in the 1989 Disk version of the Technical notes
>from $25 to $20.  All of the other Apple // item prices seem to have stayed the
>same as they have been since Apple took APDA over.  These new APDA prices are
>about 2 to 3 times what APDA used to charge when it was independent.  I wish
>Apple had not taken over APDA.  Everything was much cheaper before & they did
>about everything APDA does now.

I think Apple has really hurt APDA by taking it over and deciding to be
non-competetive in their pricing.  I wish they'd at least match Tech Alliance
with the products they have in common, while bringing down the prices on the
products that you just can't find anywhere else.

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