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From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealers
Summary: So form a group!
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Date: 20 Dec 89 00:14:50 GMT
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In article <60@uncmed.med.unc.edu> rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes:
>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.

In article <2852@ethz.UUCP> visinfo@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (VISINFO Moderators) writes:
>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.

I would suggest that each of you form some sort of 'consortium' of small stores
in your areas.  That way, the 'consortium' can purchase 50 a month, and
distribute them to those stores which want them.  You would have to be very
careful about how you arrange it, but it could work!

Imagine, there must be 50 small computer stores within a 100 or 200 mile
radius, all of whom would be willing to carry the Amiga if they didn't have
to buy 50 of them at a time.  So the consortium collects orders from the
stores (with the cash for the machines prepaid!) and places the order with
Commodore.  (Prepayment is recommended so that the consortium is taking no
risks with geting stuck with the bill.)

It should be possible to have the Amiga's "drop shipped", which means
that instead of them all comming to one central location, and having to
be reshipped, they get directly shipped by Commodore's factory to the stores
which ordered them from the consortium.

Look into it!

Plan CAREFULLY!

Make sure that you can support the 50-per-month requirement from the stores in
your group, even if they don't all reorder the following months!

Maybe if you have many more than 50 orders for one month, you can place the
first 50 orders and delay the remainder for the next month.  (This will even
out your flow with respect to Commodore, and earn you a reputation for being
a reliable orderer, though it will cause some stores to wait excessively long
for their machines to arrive.  Still, they wouldn't be carrying them at all
if you hadn't done something about it!)

TRY!
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