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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why not Wal-Mart or Sears!!!
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 18:58:44 GMT
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- David Waters (mbanet@netcom.com) wrote:
- :King Henry V (krafsur@iastate.edu) wrote:
- :: Hate to tell you this, but chain stores generally sell crap when it
- :: comes to computers (bicycles too btw). Quite frankly Id rather not have
- :: Amigas be associated with crap dos-box clones.
-
- : So, let's let history repeat itself Mr. James Cole... ;-)
-
- Amiga's do need mass exposure, but I'm not 100% Sears/Wal-mart is the
- right place. Unless the cost is going to be lower (<$500), I don't see
- these stores selling many.
-
- : King Henry V (krafsur@iastate.edu) wrote:
- :: Secondly there is not enough of a market for any large chain to bother
- :: stocking Amigas, remember even the biggest stores have limited shelf
- :: space, they are not going to stock something that wont sell well.
-
- : Obviously, Wal-Mart or Sears won't be selling A4000Ts but they'd be silly
- : to ignore a computer, such as the A1200, that provides access to the WWW
- : and sells for less than the cheapest (capable) IBM/Clone!!! Besides, all
- : I'm hearing now is excitement over so-called $500 (US) dumb terminals to
- : access the internet in the near future.
-
- Actually, if you're going to go mass market - I'd rather see them put
- machines (both A1200 and A4000T) in something like Computer City (owned
- by Radio Shack/Tandy). The reason I selected Computer City as opposed to
- CompUSA is that Computer City actually has things for Macs (ie. non-intel
- platform). CompUSA other than having a display of Macs, doesn't carry much
- Mac peripherals and software.
-
- : David "Everybody thinks that they're a marketing expert!" Waters
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- jerry
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