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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 18:04:26 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- : : 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.
-
- Exactly, whereas the amiga wound up there through dumping (in the past). That
- was the entire minor point I was trying to make. :) If I saw an amiga being
- sold in KMart I would tend to think whatever model was being sold was on its
- way out. Ie. AT isn't making any money off of the model thus they are dumping
- stock to cut losses.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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-