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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:25:54 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4d6n5i$f7v@murphy.servtech.com>
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- Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : : I'll let you know the first time I seen a Vic-20, along with my parents
- : : was A) in school and then B) in Canadian Tire here in Canada.
-
- : You didn't mention when that was, perhaps over ten years ago? :) Perhaps some
- : things have changed since then? :)
-
- Absolutley -> changed so that instead of Amigas and C=64s PCCs are in
- the retail outlets.
-
- Look at PC compatibles they went from being sold
- by dealers to now being available in Walmart, SUN, YES!, Sears, etc. Guess
- where a lot of consumers buy their PC compatibles? You guessed it
- department stores. If Amigas were simply made more available it would equal
- more sales. Doesn't matter where, consumers are lazy.
-
- : As far as I am concerned Kmart/Can. Tire is where computers go when they are
- : dumped. PCs have grown beyond this phenomena and become commodity items like a
- : tv or vcr.
-
- And this "commodity" status has a lot to do with their availability in many
- different stores.
-
- : : My point is I got introduced to the computers via department stores and
- : : then furthered it with my dealers for repairs and software/other hardware
- : : purchases which the department stores didn't offer.
-
- : : Once I GOT the computer, THEN I started checking out the dealers for that
- : : computer, before that, I hardly went into computer dealer stores.
-
- : Yes, and if everyone else lived on the back side of the moon like we do it
- : might make a difference. :)
-
- -Nyle
-
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- Amiga Dealers Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiDlrs.html
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- Build a better mousetrap and Bill Gates will steal all the Cheese.
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