UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (12/04/89)
In article <1989Dec1.232137.11584@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) says: > >One of the things that REALLY pisses off a dealer is when the local college >sells 3,000 machines BELOW THE DEALER'S COST to students -- and the dealer >gets stuck supporting those units. Some of those, inevitably, find their >way into the grey market and outside of the university. > My guess is that NeXT sells the machine for about $6500. If the schools want to resell them for around $7000, while BLand wants $10,500, that's BLand's problem. Also, in this case, BusinessLand *appoached* NeXT and more or less insisted that they be allowed to sell machines, so they are hardly in a position to complain about deals with University dealers that were in already in place. Thirdly, this is a case where dealers should not fight over a bigger piece of the pie. Instead, they should support policies that make the pie bigger.
jaz@calvin (02/10/90)
The NeXT computer sells at list price at businessland. This price is $9995.00 w/optical, and $6995 w/out. I wish people would quit quoting educational prices as if anyone can get the machine for that price. It's extremely annoying, misleading, and condescending. -jaz
jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) (02/11/90)
In article <1020@abvax.UUCP> jaz@calvin () writes: >The NeXT computer sells at list price at businessland. This price is >$9995.00 w/optical, and $6995 w/out. I wish people would quit quoting >educational prices as if anyone can get the machine for that price. >It's extremely annoying, misleading, and condescending. >-jaz I don't know exact numbers but there are a *lot* of people in education that are on the internet (more than industry people??) so quoting educational prices is not such a wrong thing to do. I'm sure we will all try to be more considerate of the "real world" in the future. Bryce Jasmer jasmerb@cs.orst.edu PS. please get your news header lines fixed. I cannot reply to "jaz@calvin" because there is no machine named "calvin" in our subdomain. Thanks.