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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 08:28:27 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dfnjb$gh0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960110.77F0A90.124C4@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4d3hle$udh@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d6n5i$f7v@murphy.servtech.com> <4de4va$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Dumping
- Keywords: Boost in sales
-
- In article <4de4va$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >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.
- >
-
- Do you not know that when the Amiga was in Canadian Tire and Kmart here
- in Canada, Amiga sales were boosting not only here in Canada but all over
- the world? The Amiga 500, which was the computer in such stores after
- the A1000 was dropped by Commodore when they were selling like hotcakes
- and I am not limiting my view Byron like you would do to only here in
- Newfoundland.. Newfoundland always seems to be backwards to the rest of
- Canada. Do you know the Amiga is still very popular in Halifax Nova
- Scotia, one province away from us? They are still popular in Ontario
- (have you looked at where the majority of the dealers are located to on
- the dealers list?) etc. The A500 was by no means "on the way out" when
- they were selling at Kmart, it just meant that Commodore realized a price
- range that the A500 would sell good at and that price range fit in with
- Kmart's low price image.. obviously you know little about marketing and
- exposure like I have already said.. selling the Amiga in department
- stores is GOOD, not bad for it.. it is bad for dealers who cannot compete
- with the lowered price that the department store can afford to offer it
- at as it makes up for it in other areas. But the consumer gets lower
- support at department stores and the dealers make up for it in that
- regard along with being able to offer more products that cater to their
- customers more.
-
- The reason why Aptiva's are being sold at Price Club and Radio Shack etc.
- is the same reason why Amigas were being sold at Kmart and Canadian Tire
- and the same reason why Packard Bells are being sold at Walmart, not
- because they are being dumped, but because it offers more exposure to the
- consumer.
-
- Just because how YOU look at it, does not mean it is the way it is to
- everyone.
-
- -=*George*=-
-
-