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- Commodore's Pricing was only RESONABLE!!! They were gouged by Gould's $3
- million salery and other mismanagment. Commodore neglected to do 2 things
- that would have kept them alive.
- Set standards by sending representitive to all the standards commities.
- ADVERTISE. Alot. To people who DIDN'T already own an Amiga.
-
- Let's face it. Even thoughthe Amiga's day is done. It's only
- computer in HISTORY to actually INCREASE in value.
- If CBM had been more like Apple they would RULE the Market.
-
- CBM was killed by GREED within.
-
- On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Martin Leslie Baker wrote:
-
- > Paul Chan (paul) wrote:
- > : C=`s problem was that they dropped prices too soon and too often. AT had to
- > : have a good start by re-introducing the A1200 at a price equal to or less than
- > : the firt A1200. I know they`ve had problems with assembly, but they should have
- > : taken the loss in order to maintain a logical/consumer price.
- >
- > C= : I don't think C= reduced prices as a matter of choice. I think it was
- > more a case of having to ship and _sell_ units to keep the creditors
- > from closing them down. In C= last two years of business there were
- > big price cuts on the A600, A1200 and CD32. This were reflected in
- > massive write-downs of stock value which added to C= losses, but did
- > mean they shipped more units. It didn't work of course...
- >
- > AT : There is now way AT/Escom are going to sell the machine at a loss.
- > Escom have had massive aquisitions in the last year, the core business
- > of Escom has, is, and always will be PC. FACT is they will not put
- > an Amiga on the market that can compete with PC, simply because they
- > can make more money on 1 PC sale v. 1 Amiga sale. Cause Amigas are
- > expensive to manufacture.
- >
- > : No Amigan in their right mind would want to buy a machine that has been
- > : off-sale for up to 2 years, has gone *up* in price by 100 quid and is somehow
- > : incompatible with some "A1200" games (yes, I know about DSKRDY, don`t correct
- > : me). The magic pack doesn`t soften the blow any, and the 486 is basically
- > : outgunnng the Amiga in terms of [perceived] price/performance - plus we also
- > : get to hear the horror stories coming from the Escom stores, one of the few
- > : high stret Amiga retailers.
- >
- > This is not perceived price, it is fact.
- >
- > A1200 + Amiga Monitor + HD costs DX2-Anything MultiMedia.
- > + 68030 card + FastRAM + CD-ROM > & most Pentiums
- >
- > : <snip some ideas ;>
- >
- > I think reality is we need:
- >
- > An Amiga 040 @ 25 MHz + HD floppy + .5 GB HD + 2+2(4) MB RAM
- >
- > For sale very soon at no more than 500 ukp, pref. 400 ukp.
- >
- > If we don't get this, Amiga is in serious trouble.
- >
- > +--------+-------------------------------------+------------------------+
- > | Martin | Amiga 1200 030 6MB 120MB HD CD-ROM | mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk |
- > | Leslie | AT M1438S Supra V32bis | |
- > | Baker | Motorola Motivated... Amiga CD32 | Scunthorpe |
- > +--------+-------------------------------------+------------------------+
- >
- >
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