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From: visinfo@ethz.UUCP (VISINFO Moderators)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealers
Message-ID: <2852@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 13:57:52 GMT
References: <4450@nigel.udel.EDU> <1989Nov29.220701.20519@i-core.UUCP> <60@uncmed.med.unc.edu>
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In article <60@uncmed.med.unc.edu> rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes:
>
>	While I was home for the Thanksgiving break I ran across a new 
>computer store in the local mall.  It looked like the standard MOSS-DOS 
>store so I thought I would go and rattle the cage of the salesman about the 
>Amiga.  I asked him if they carried the Amiga expecting to have to explain 
>that it wasn't a Taiwanese clone.  He said he didn't but that he would like 
>to but C= required that he buy 50 Amigas a month.  We had a bit of a 
>discussion where he made some bogus claims about multitasking on low memory 
>clones but otherwise he seemed to know his stuff.  He seemed to be 
>genuinely interested in carrying the Amiga but I come from an area near a 
>city of about 30,000.  There would be no way that he could move 50 Amigas a 
>month and probably could barely move 50 of a clone brand each month.

This is also a big problem here in Switzerland. My father owns a Radio and
TV shop. We also want to sell Amigas. But we also should sell 50 Amigas
a year. That's impossible for a lot of intersted dealer who want sell Amigas.
Our Shop is located in a 2000 people village. I have the impression that
CBM is only interested in selling Amigas. Only the number of sold Amigas
count.
The consequence of this is that in Swizterland most Amigas are sold through
Supermarkets and Discount shops. There are nearly any shop in Switzerland
that has any further knowledge about the Amiga. There is no really
professional Amiga shop where you can buy things like Ethernet cards,
Hardframe controller and other advanced Amiga stuff.
We have to buy the Amigas we sell through another Dealer who is located
near Zurich. This is sometimes very annoying becausce we can't call CBM
to ask things like new prices or tecnical stuff. We also have a very, very
bas support here in Swizterland. I'm surprised that you also in the USA have
to sell 50 Amigas a year. Generally I have the impression that the support
in USA is far better than the Support here. (Although for the USA the
support seems to be very bad compared with other companies).
I'd like to know how the situation is in other countries. Please post or
email me your experiences. And ideas to convice CBM to change their strange
ideas.


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