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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alien Breed 3D & Worms, selling gooooood
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:46:55 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Nobody denies that the low-end stock A1200 is behind the times. I think
- : some of us should relax until March/April when the upgraded low-end Amiga
- : is revealed.
-
- For NA, make that July/August/September/October. :)
-
- : After they are revealed, it will be up to Amiga Technologies to market
- : them on a substantial level and lower the price a bit aiming at quantity
- : sales a bit more to get their income rather than a lot per machine.
-
- If AT are trying to make a profit their first year out they are overly
- optomistic. They should be establishing a market instead. Bundling public
- domain software and demo versions of commercial software (Well..) is not a
- good excuse for high prices.
-
- : These newer machines with the Surfer pack and whatever else will sell a lot
- : better than the current A1200, no doubt about that, as long as they don't
- : hike the price on us... best bet would be to lower it a little from where
- : it currently stands but with all the new stuff in it. We will wait and see.
-
- It makes sense to sell something starting off at a high price, to a point. You
- don't know what the current selling point of the machine can be set to so this
- is one way to find out. But it helps if you sell some machines, no sales tell
- you too much and not enough. :)
-
- : How many of you expect a man who just got out of tripple by-pass surgery to
- : run in a marathon? Well, I don't expect the Amiga to do so until it is
-
- No, but I don't expect to pay for his medical bill either. :)
-
- : healed either. Lets get a grip and show a little patience. This is not
- : to say that AT (and SMG in North America) will have to do what they may
- : consider a risk to get the Amiga to succeed. Include 2MB Fast RAM as
- : standard too guys!!
-
- Make that 4MB of fast ram and leave it up to the dealers, not AT. I wouldn't
- want to pay for the traffic between several countries and whatever AT wants
- to add for the priviledge.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-