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- From: dgrant@peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: It Sucks to sell PC's these days.
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 13:19:48 GMT
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- X-NewsReader: Interworks_GRn 3.0 January 12, 1996
-
- I just read P.T.'s address to the trade show in the UK, and it confirmed a
- suspicion I've had for a while:
-
- It Sucks to Sell PC's.
-
- Remember when ESCOM bought ol' chicken lips? "Yay!" we cried (at least, some
- of us did) "At last! A profitable company that can siphon profit from making
- clones into Amiga R&D!"
-
- It was poetic justice; the machine we all hate paying for the renewed lease
- on life enjoyed by the machine we love.
-
- But then Intel released the P60, P75, P90, P120, P133, P166, sequentially, in
- the space of 18 months. So the guys that built thousands of P60's three
- months later couldn't sell them for the prices they had planned on.
-
- So they built thousands of P75s. And it happened again with the P90.
-
- And again.
-
- And again!
-
- Result: tons of inventory being sold at prices below cost, just to dump the
- damn things.
-
- Mix in a poor X-Mas, and even the big guys (or maybe *especially* the big
- guys) take a massive hit.
-
- To quote P.T.
-
- "As you might be aware of, ESCOM is currently facing a quite difficult
- financial situation. A bad christmas season and inventory write offs were
- the main reasons for this. This situation of course is also directly
- affecting Amiga Technologies. The fact is that ESCOM currently does not
- have the financial resources needed to support the still ongoing costs of
- our operation, especially advertising and research & development."
-
- Yow! From giant to dwarf in 18 months!
-
- Isn't it funny? Intel may be choking the golden goose.
-
- Buy Amiga! Our development moves so slowly that you don't go obsolete
- overnight! You can make money selling our systems!
-
- ROFL!
-
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
-