jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) (05/10/91)
Someone recently posted this table: >CPU MSRP UserDis. User Pays >--------------------------------------------- >A3000 16/50 $2999 $1150 $1849 >A3000 25/50 $3499 $1250 $2249 >A3000 25/100 $4699 $1500 $3199 Why is it that the MSRP for a 25/100 is *TWELVE HUNDRED* dollars more than that for a 25/50? And the discounted price is still $900 more. (Before anyone flames me for not using .marketplace or .advocacy, I don't get those groups, and I want to see some discussion of this!) -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) (05/11/91)
In article <jms.4299@vanth.UUCP> jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >Someone recently posted this table: > >>CPU MSRP UserDis. User Pays >>--------------------------------------------- >>A3000 16/50 $2999 $1150 $1849 >>A3000 25/50 $3499 $1250 $2249 >>A3000 25/100 $4699 $1500 $3199 > >Why is it that the MSRP for a 25/100 is *TWELVE HUNDRED* dollars more than >that for a 25/50? And the discounted price is still $900 more. Before someone rants and raves about how 3 more megs of RAM and 50MB of HD space doesn't cost $900, much less $1200, let me suggest the following: Suppose -- just suppose -- that C= expects to sell a significantly larger number of A3000-25/50s than A3000-25/100s. It makes sense for them to take a smaller profit per unit on these machines, since the extra sales would probably more than make up for it. More machines in the field means more exposure, word of mouth advertising, and repeat customers. Of course, if you still want to gripe about the big difference in price, I suppose C= could raise the list price of the 25/50 to about $500 less than that of the 25/100, since that's about what the difference in hardware is. :) Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic