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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:47:19 GMT
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- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans) wrote:
- >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).
-
- Erm, there can`t be much of a problem in the EU with import taxes, surely? If
- this *is* the case, then AT need to be thinking about settingup manyfacturing
- facilities in Irvine (scotland) again to get around theis tax. As it is, the UK
- division is *known* to have done badly. It`s entirely to the high price, IMHO,
- that not all shops took back the Amiga (Dixons and Currys for a start,
- therefore no Amigas in PC World)
-
- >
- >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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