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- THE LATEST ON ESCOM IN THE U.S.A.
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- Since this information didn't really belong in this month's
- Amiga Link Games (it isn't really entertainment based, but
- lots of people will find it interesting anyway).
-
- Better Concepts Inc. has spoken directly to ESCOM's U.S.
- advisor, Ed Goff (for published information about Mr. Goff,
- please see the Philidelphia Examiner, June 18th 1995 edition)
- about the U.S. stance on the Amiga and I must say it is quite
- disheartening. Just for once, can't we get someone in office
- with some passion for the Amiga and not just for money?
-
- Craig Rosenfeld of BCI reported to me that his phone call to
- Mr. Goff was quite depressing. Most of you know that BCI is
- one of the U.S.'s last and strongest Amiga/CD32 mail order
- companies and they were certainly interested in getting their
- hands on the 2000 or so CD32's that remained in storage up in
- Philidelphia. Mr. Goff said he would be more than HAPPY to
- sell them to BCI at the cost of only $400 (that is four
- hundred dollars) each in any quantity. Naturally, this
- appalled BCI and when confronted with the fact that the CD32's
- competetor the Sega Saturn with more power was only priced at
- $399, Mr. Goff basically said that he isn't interested in
- selling CD32s to the home market and that he wants to sell
- them all to kiosk designers and businesses that are willing to
- pay more (is this sounding like the old C= staff to you?) for
- them. In fact, Mr. Goff will recommend to ESCOM that no more
- CD32s *OR* A1200s to be made unless he can sell the ones
- remaining for the ridiculous high prices. That's right. He
- wants a ridiculous price for A1200's too (unfortunately my
- notes are a little weak and I cannot remember the price, but
- it was just under $1000).
-
- The news the Examiner reported that A4000T will be produced in
- Philidelphia, PA is absolutely true. However, here is the
- kicker. The price. Are you all getting a really bad feeling
- about all this? I am. The street price is set to be at $3500
- (that is thirty-five hundred dollars) and that is for an
- 040/25mhz processor, 6 megs of ram, and a 540 meg IDE (not
- SCSI) hard drive. No mention of a monitor or anything like
- that with that price. If you weren't depressed before, you
- should be now.
-
- Ed Goff is a man we need to get rid of, or at least change to
- a little softer way of thinking. Mr. Goff is a pure business
- and money oriented man and from the conversation that was had
- with BCI, seems to care very little for little guys like BCI,
- DUP, and in essence the end user that has kept the Amiga alive
- over the last 18 months while we were waiting for a buyout.
-
- BCI has already faxed ESCOM of Germany stating their feelings
- about Mr. Goff, and we can only hope that they can see the
- light and do something about it before we are turn into
- pumpkins. I will do my best to get Mr. Goff's fax number and
- we can bombard him with fax of facts about the Amiga market.
-
- I will certainly post more as soon as I get more word!
-
- Shane Monroe DUP
-