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From: crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris "I'm Outta Here!" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 000 for your 1000
Message-ID: <2416@cpsc6a.att.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 20:06:15 GMT
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fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
< 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) wrote:
< > 	YOU PAID $1000 FOR YOUR COMPUTERS 5 years ago.  Commodore is offering
< > to buy back the KEYBOARD for $1000 NOW.  
< 
<      Let's be realistic.  Commodore is offering $1000 off their list price.
< You turn in everything except your monitor and hand over $999.  In return
< you get an Amiga 2000.  Maybe you can make a deal with the dealer to keep
< everything except the keyboard.  But you can keep your entire Amiga 1000
< and buy a 2000 with 1 meg of RAM for $1299.  So the trade-in is really
< worth about $300--less if the 2000 you get with the trade in doesn't have a
< meg of RAM.

I am not aware of any Amiga 2000 configurations currently offered with
less than 1 MB RAM.  Also, there have been a number of "it's really only
worth $300" comments.  Has anyone verified this?  It may well be that the
offer is still worth $1000, even at the somewhat discounted street price.
Of course, if the price you quote is from a mail order house, then you
can and should expect no offers from Commodore.

<      It's impressive that Commodore has twice offered a trade-in on the
< Amiga 1000.  Not many computer companies have done as much for their older
< customers.

Name two companies (besides Commodore) that have ever offered such a trade-in.

< --Fabbian Dufoe
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