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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Escom shop better
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:10:22 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
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- Summary: Dumping
- Keywords: Refitting
-
- In article <822473743.26093@hchworth.demon.co.uk>, Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >odin@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Andrew George Elia) wrote:
- >
- >>...the bad news is that another Head Office memo followed it saying that
- >>all the Amigas are to be withdrawn from Escom stores. By the way, a lot
- >>of stores were given monitors, but have never bothered to connect them up
- >>to Amigas. They aren't in the catalogue any more, so goodness knows how
- >>they could expect to move the monitors. The only store that could
- >>possibly do the Amiga justice (my store in Enfield) were never given any.
- >>The inequity of things...
- >
- >Just a smegging minute. If the A1200 is being withdrawn from sale, then perhaps
- >this is a prelude to some other move by AT. Any ideas as to what this move
- >might entail?
-
- Yeah, probably refitting them with the Surfer pack and shipping them to
- North America and trying to sell them there. :)
-
- Other then that, they just probably realized it was a mistake to sell
- them there in the first place as the staff have little knowledge about
- the Amiga and until they do, it would be better to keep the machines in
- dealers hands that actually know about the Amiga and save money in the
- process from having to retrain their Escom staff. I say the move was
- tried to get mass exposure for Christmas and now that it failed in some
- areas, they know it was a mistake and hopefully have learned from it in
- the process.
-
- -=*George*=-
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