krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (06/21/91)
Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? Alex Krooglik krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ.AU Chem Eng Stude, and proud of it "Only wankers insist on wasting time writing a totally meaningless message at the bottom of their .sig*"
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (06/21/91)
In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes: > > Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, >explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? > Because Commodore is different in each nation. There is a totally different marketing company for each country, each free to make its own policies, marketing decisions, and pricing. -- Ethan "...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."
fletcher@netcom.COM (F. Sullivan Segal) (06/22/91)
In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes: > > Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, >explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? > Commodore International is actually made up of many different sub-companies, one for each country. Each of the companies pays into the common pool, and can draw resources from it, but basically they are all still independent. For example, while the A2000 was being developed in the U.S. (actually as more of an A500), Germany was working on an entirely different concept. When the A500 design was complete in the U.S, it ended up being pretty trivial to add some slots to it and create the A2000B. Since the mother board was designed for mass marketing (i.e: A500) the A2000B came in at a considerably lower PPU than the A2000A, and ended up being adopted by all of the subsidiaries. Marketing is another story. Each company decides for itself how to market its machines. Commodore U.S.A has long labored under accusations of inadequate advertising and sloppy support. From what I hear, Germany has much stronger advertising, and somewhat stronger sales. I have no idea what australia is doing. The last reports I heard from down there were: At least a couple of months behind everyone else, no customer support, and basically no familiarity with the computers by any of the upper management. In other words, it is like Commodore U.S.A about three or four years ago. Hopefully they will shape up. -- -F. Sullivan Segall _______________________________________________________________ _ /V\ E-Credibility: (n -- ME) The unguaranteed likelyhood that ' the electronic mail you are reading is genuine rather than someone's made up crap. _______________________________________________________________ Mail to: ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!fletcher or fletcher@cup.portal.com fletcher@netcom.com
robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton) (06/22/91)
In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes: > > Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, >explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? Because Commodore USA only operates in the USA?
darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) (06/22/91)
In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes: > > Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter, >explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer? Commodore US policies are independent of all other countries. In some cases this can work against your country but in some cases it can work for you. For example, in Canada the warrantee for Amiga computers (and all peripherals) has always been one year parts and labour. If an authorised service centre is not local to you you can drop it off at the place of purchase and they ship it to the nearest service centre, no charge to you. In the US, the warrantee on Amigas was originally ninety days. It was not until sometime after the release of the Amiga 2000 (something like a year after) that the warrantee in the US was bumped up to one year. When Canadians heard of the "Power Up" program they complained to their dealers (me) and to Commodore directly. We dealers in turn complained to our reps at Commodore. Commodore Canada then made their own version of the "Power Up" program, called the "Trade Up" program. If Commodore in your country does not hear from you then will not bother spending the time to create such a program. NOTE: because each country is finanically independent of other countries (speaking in terms of the Commodore company) they cannot always impliment the same programs as another country. > >Alex Krooglik krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ.AU >Chem Eng Stude, and proud of it > "Only wankers insist on wasting time writing a totally > meaningless message at the bottom of their .sig*" -- Darrell Grainger % Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada darrell@comspec % Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. (416) 617-1475 % (416) 633-5605 (416)785-3553