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- From: krafsur@iastate.edu (King Henry V)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why not Wal-Mart or Sears!!!
- Date: 25 Jan 96 17:26:38 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- In <4e4s09$eaa@alterdial.UU.NET> chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
- Still the same problem, even assuming that AT could do such a thing, why
- would a large chain store take the risk? There is no incentive for them
- to try selling a new untested marketing idea. Again, that assuming that
- anyone would advertise in the manner that you assume. Chain stores dont
- sell breaking or marginal ideas or technologies, that certainly isnt
- going to change for the Amiga.
-
- >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.
-
- >: 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.
-
- >Your making the assumption that Amigas won't sell. If AT were to do
- >some marketing and get a low end Amiga out for under $500 that has at
- >least a hard drive and CDROM, it would sell like crazy considering that
- >all other computers in the mass market stores are about $1300-$2000.
-
- >They could sell a low end Amiga for under $500 easily. Take a look at the
- >CD32s. They are going for about $180-$250. With some changes to add all
- >the normal ports, hard drive controller, 40mhz EC030, 170MB hard drive,
- >external keyboard and mouse, it would bring the retail price up to about
- >$500.
-
- >Think about it. How many people would skip buying $300 CD game systems when
- >they could buy a $500 computer that has a CD. Have you noticed how well
- >game systems sold last Christmas? A $500 computer would blow them away next
- >Christmas.
-
-
- >Chris Hall
-
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- Ed Krafsur
- krafsur@iastate.edu
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