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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alien Breed 3D Escom UK shops are crap
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3dl8@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 22:05:46 EST
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- On Thu 29-Feb-1996 4:53p, rooster wrote:
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- <snip>
-
- r> It's very encouraging to see that dealers in Europe are taking the
- r> Amiga
- r> seriously.But guess what ?In my local Escom shop* they have ALL the PCs
- r> running some kind of demo(application,gfx,sound etc.)but the one 1200 they
- r> have unboxed is sat at on end of the shop away from the window with just
- r> the workbench screen showing.In the middle of the shops they have a stack
- r> of
- r> 1200s still boxed but absolutely nothing showing off demos.It is painfully
- r> obvious the staff are only interested in selling PCs.If anyone from Escom
- r> reads this then do something about it.Advertise for Amiga enthusiasts to
- r> work in the shops to demo the Amiga.Contact demo groups and have packages
- r> of
- r> demos made so that even the most Amiga ignorant member of staff can load
- r> in
- r> a repeating series of demoes etc.COME ON!! YOU WILL MAKE MONEY FROM THIS!!
-
- Did you try giving them a floppy (I presume the A1200 was HDless) with a great
- AGA demo on it? If these Escom salesweasels are completely clueless on the
- Amiga systems, it might take a kind Amigaphile a few minutes of his time and
- set something up for them.
-
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