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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 17:57:14 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
- : In <4gqa1r$p1c@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie) writes:
- : >What does DEM stand for? German Mark? Explain the 15% VAT included
- : >in the price and how it applies.
-
- : VAT is the Value Added Tax, basically a federal sales tax applied in
- : most European countries.
-
- Does it apply to exports?
-
- : >a1200HD (216MB) = $900 CDN, $630 US
- : >14.4 modem = $100 CDN, $70 US
- : >I-Net225 = $200 CDN, $140 US
-
- : >The only comments I would make is that I can buy a new 14.4 modem for
- : >$70 CDN (without looking around),
-
- : A couple of comments. First of all, if the prices posted are the
- : official prices, they're Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices. Not
- : necessarily what you pay on the street. I can guarantee that if you're
- : buying a 14.4kBaud modem that wasn't assembled in someone's garage, it
- : will have an official MSRP considerably above the everyday price.
-
- The price of a1200s in the UK is about all I can go by, and that makes a bare
- a1200 cost around $800 CDN. Other than AT products, CBM a1200s kicking around
- are going for $950 CDN (new?!?). Your point about the uselessness of MSRP is
- well taken but the actual prices for a1200s are matching it anyway. The
- reason 14.4 modems are so cheap is because they are obsolete not because they
- are home made. :) Besides, what is mail order for me is the local store for
- someone else ie, I am talking about stores offering mail order which is more
- the case than strictly mail order houses, at least what I am seeing.
-
- : >since the Surf software is mainly shareware the price is all
- : >I-Net225, and the a1200 is too expensive for the NA market.
-
- : Secondly, if you know where to find cheap modems, how and where to
- : download and install the software, than you're not the market this
- : package is going for. The idea here is to provide an all-in-one, point
-
- It must be an European market then because the clueless buy PCs over here. :)
-
- : and click internet access for folks who don't have a clue about the
- : internet. In Europe anyway, the Surfer packages come set up to hook
- : you into an ISP painlessly. Again, things the everyday
- : guy-on-the-street needs, not necessarily anything someone already wise
- : in the ways of the internet would want.
-
- Sure, but the average guy on the street can compare prices whether or not he
- knows the technology involved, either that or they will ask friends in the know
- what to do. With the nature of the web, there will be few and far between who
- won't ask somebody they trust what to do and what to buy to get access.
- As far as I am concerned it will only be knowledgable people who will buy
- amigas anyway, if they have lots of bucks they will get a PC, if they know
- enough to shop for an a1200 they know prices of other items as well.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-