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ONE IN ELEVEN MILLION!
I thought today would be just
another uneventful day until I started
to open the mail. There it was, a
letter from Commodore! Wow! What had I
(a meager 64 owner) done to deserve
such recognition? With an intense
sense of curiosity I began to read how
sales for the 64/128 had been in excess
of 11,000,000 machines. Hey, this is
great I thought, surely with numbers
like that support for the people that
use these computers will be certian.
Not a chance! The letter after
boasting of the sales went on to say
that my computer was almost a decade
old (nice way of saying nearly ten) and
implied, rather discreetly, that it was
obsolete and so was I if I continued to
use it and not take advantage of the
tremendous offer being made on a new
Amiga or C= PC.
You gotta' have a lot of nerve (not
my first choice of words) to tell
someone, or imply, that support for the
product they have purchased perhaps
several times over, is no longer going
to be there. Then in the next breath
suggest that they should purchase a
newer more expensive machine. Will the
support for the new product diminish or
disappear if it is not as sucessful?
Of course we all realize that there is
a lot more profit to be made, and
profit is not a dirty word, in selling
computers that have a price tag in
multiples of the one on a 64 or the 128
if you can still find one.But surely
there has to be a balance of service to
your customers and presenting a good
bottom linre to shareholders.
What Commodore doesn't realize is
that there are a lot of people that
don't want anything more than a 64/128
or that can't justify the expense of
upgrading. The 64 has been and will
continue to be the greatest
recreational computer. It has provided
by it's limitations, a medium to
encourage efficient and creative
programming
(such as the new DMBBS V5,
little plug boys! hehe) . It continues
to be an educator to all that use it,
no one has to mention the unlimited
amount of software available.
, etc. etc.
I think it is a fair statement in
saying it is time the big C= did away
with it's archaic marketing techniques
and concentrated on a little customer
service to make it a more viable
company. Why not an upgrade for the 64
if you want to sell another 11,000,000
computers? We all know that they have
at least one or two of them tucked away
in their warehouse of poorly marketed
products. But then who am I to tell
them how to mismanage their business?
Besides-they have done a good enough
job of it (mismanagement) on their own.
Eskimo
SysOp for..
North Star * BBS
204-677-3396