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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 00:44:40 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.46u5@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
-
- In a message of 15 Jan 96 Paul Chan wrote to All:
-
- >> : Jonathan Anderson, joint MD of Amiga Technologies UK, and two other
- >> support : staff have been laid off from the small UK outfit.
-
- PC> Is it any suprise, even A500 Amigans who want to upgrade think twice
- PC> about the rise in price. I`m still wishing I got hold of an A1200 for
-
- PC> By attempting to cash in on initial sales by hiking the price they
-
- Actually, the A1200 price IN THE UK was/is high. In Germany and here
- in Holland, it is not much higher than it used to be (at the Cologne
- fair, I noticed the German prices were already back at their old
- level).
-
- The price difference of AT A1200's was, from the outset, pretty steep
- between Germany and the UK. A colleague of mine asked Gilles B. about
- this, and I believe the answer had something to do with high import
- taxes in the UK (or something, I'm not an economist).
-
- So it's not that surprising that sales in Germany were much better
- than in the UK, IMHO. But I think it's noticeable that it is not
- an A1200 price problem per se; more of an "AT/UK" problem.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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