BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) (10/18/90)
I would like to strike a deal with the Amiga community. My problem
is that I have too much time on my hands, and have been using it to
flame Commodore. This isn't to say I haven't been trying to use it
more constructively. I am attempting to set up a kind of local Amiga
mail-order business to sell Amiga hardware and software locally at
mail-order prices.
I am not alone in this. This business is a partnership, and my
partner is a graduate student in business at another university.
Unfortunately, neither of us have been able to get very far with this
thing, mainly because the distributers for Amiga third-party products
have been unwilling to cooporate. It was pretty easy to get
information from the distributors of IBM products (we would also
like to sell misc. things like modems, printers, etc.), but getting
the Amiga distributers to send us information is like pulling
teeth.
Here is the deal: if I could get assistance in setting up this
business, I could devote more of my time to selling Amiga hardware
and software, and less of it to flaming Commodore. I think almost
anyone on the Net would be glad to see this happen.
I don't need much help in any of the nitty-gritty stuff, like
how to run a business, etc. That part of it is being handled
pretty well already. I just need assistance on how I can obtain
sources for Amiga products at the prices that dealers and mail-
order companies pay. We have a few sources lined up already, but
most of the companies that we have contacted have either sent us
no information at all, or sent us information that was of very
little use.
If you wish, reply through e-mail. Any assistance in this
enterprise will be greatly appreciated by me, and probably by a
lot of other people as well.
-MB-