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From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: educational Mac pricing
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.014140.17439@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 01:41:40 GMT
References: <21385@netnews.upenn.edu> <0093347C.8D427BC0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu>
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Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept
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>In article <21385@netnews.upenn.edu>, grobbins@grad1.cis.upenn.edu writes:

Let me add one extra column to your figures... these are OUR "generous"
student discount prices, straight from the Spring 1990 price list.

>>                    Penn   New York	Brandeis
>>CPU               student   street	Student
>>
>>Mac SE              1594    1599 	1621.62
>>Mac SE/30           2477    2399	2591.82
>>Mac IIcx            3249    2849	3127.74
>>Mac IIci            3846    3849	4199.58
>>
>>So much for educational price breaks.

The interesting part about all this is that the CHARGE-LINE price for Brandeis
faculty is 15% lower, across the board, for all prices.  When I asked about
this, the salesperson said that the discrepancy was due to the absence of 
sales tax for faculty members.  Sure, they get that break, but even in 
Massachusetts, Sales tax isn't 15%! Where's the extra money going, hm?

When I get my new system, I'm going to get it mail-order from New Jersey
- no sales tax, no price gouging, and they actually keep an INVENTORY of
computers! Imagine that! No 5-week delay between order and receipt!

It just doesn't make sense.

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