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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: educational Mac pricing
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Date: 7 Mar 90 20:34:53 GMT
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In article <10660@pucc.Princeton.EDU> FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>In article <7887@tank.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>>[...]
>>>>>                    Penn   New York  Brandeis
>>>>>CPU               student   street   Student
>> [price stuff deleted]
>>
>>BTW, anybody know how these people sell for so little?  Are they just cutting
>>their own margin?
>>
>>Robert
>>
>>============================================================================
>Without knowing exactly what ad, from what dealer, in what paper, etc. in
>which these prices showed up, it's impossible to say for sure. But, in theory,
>it should be very difficult for dealers to undercut a campus price. Nobody
>outside Apple gets better prices than ed. institutions.
>
>Prices as listed from the schools above are usually the result of campus
>resale that has a lot of overhead (space, inventory, salaries, etc.). This
>is one way by which campus prices could be higher than street.
>
Or they could be just gouging the students by adding a bit of an
"extra" margin of profit in the prices.  You should see the prices
of computer systems with "educational discounts" at the Columbia
University bookstore (actually, all of their pricing is a bit on the
obscene side so I don't know if they are treating computers any 
differently.).

Chris
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