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From: chandy@dg.dg.com (John Chandy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: educational Mac pricing
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Date: 7 Mar 90 16:04:07 GMT
References: <21385@netnews.upenn.edu> <0093347C.8D427BC0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <1990Mar7.014140.17439@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Reply-To: chandy@emav13.webo.dg.com (John Chandy)
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In article <1990Mar7.014140.17439@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes:
>>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.
>

When I used to work at the computer center at MIT (until June 89), our
discount from Apple used to be about 46% off list.  I think Apple's
maximum dealer discount is 40% but I'm not sure about that.  We used
to mark up our prices roughly 10-15% because we were forced to be self
sufficient, i.e. no subsidies from MIT.  A lot of the state university
computer stores get substantial subsidies from the university itself,
and thus they are able to charge prices without the markup.  I don't
know how MIT's prices compare with those above, but I can bet Penn is
marking up their products a lot more than they have to.  In defense of
them, Penn may have been stuck with a whole lot of machines bought
before the recent price drop and Apple may not be offering price
protection.  Apple did that to MIT when they dropped the MacII, and we
were forced to eat the price difference.  As for Brandeis, I don't
think they are a consortium school and thus don't get the same level
of discounts.


					John Chandy

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