Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!poppy!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@poppy.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Some Atari dealers in Canada
Message-ID: <20919@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 90 22:29:46 GMT
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In article <917@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP> rwilson@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (Richard Wilson) writes:

>According to my local Atari dealer, he can lose his dealership if he send's
>machines to the U.S.  Since Canadien Atari computers are not FCC approved, they
>cannot be sold to the U.S.  Please ask your dealer before posting his address,
>he (or of course she) may not want to be bothered by lots of requests for 
>STe's that he can't fill.

Who is asking the dealer to "send" anything.  I think we are talking
about walk-ins here.  My dealer did not ask if I intend to take
my machine to the US.  I know of another who may have contributed
to the current shortage of Mega ST2's in the US by purchasing there
and carrying with him to a third country.
None of these activities are illegal, nor should they endanger the 
status of a dealership.


Good grief.  
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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