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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: Demise of C-64
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 07:15:40 -0500
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- In article <4cv6jr$gc1@hg.oro.net>, rioux@au.oro.net (Gerald Rioux)
- writes:
-
- >There's even more to it Dave. I worked for a Commodore dealer when the
- >C=64 came out. Initially, Commodore threatened to pull their dealership
- >if they sold the machines below list price ($595). However, it wasn't
- >long before Commodore was charging the store more for C=64s at
- "wholesale"
- >than Toys-R-Us was selling them for at "retail". And Commodore expected
- >the dealer to do warrantee service on the machines people bought at the
- >toy store!
-
- I remember something like that. No questions that management had a few
- strange ideas about how to do business. We all know that the equiment
- itself wasn't the reason....well some of us do, anyway.
-