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- From: lc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Luis Abdon Cifuentes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Where is Price Club? (yes, but WHERE IS IT?)
- Message-ID: <8eP62RC00Uh7A4UGlX@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 11:08:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.8eP62RC00Uh7A4UGlX
- References: <1992Jul20.182932.6286@seas.gwu.edu> <oeP1r4S00WBMQ2_WAo@andrew.cmu.edu> <wingo-210792093253@zardoz.apple.com>
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- Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Jul21.171446.4933@convex.com>
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- >
- >In article <wingo-210792093253@zardoz.apple.com> wingo@apple.com (Tony
- Wingo) w
- >rites:
- >>In article <oeP1r4S00WBMQ2_WAo@andrew.cmu.edu>, lc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Luis
- >>Abdon Cifuentes) wrote:
- >>rent number. I dont know about the second one.
- >>>
- >>> I called the first number. Yes, it is Price Club, but NO, they don't
- >>> carry Apple computers yet. They carry Dell and Leading Edge. Where did
- >>> you get your information from?
- >>>
- >>> Luis
- >>
- >>According to the 7/13/92 edition of MacWeek, the PB100 4/40 will start
- >>appearing at the Price Club "in a few weeks".
- >>
- >>-tony
- >>
- >
- >Powerbooks are already at several Price Clubs. I personally saw a stack
- >of about 75 of them last Friday at the Price Club here in Dallas on Central
- >Expressway. They were priced at $899 for the PB 100 4/40 *with*
- >external drive.
- >
- >Calling the Price Club may not do you much good. When I called the
- >Dallas location, I got a recording stating that they do not give merchandise
- >or pricing info over the phone.
- >
- >I have a friend in CA who just bought the last PowerBook at the Price
- >Club in Burbank. It sounds like they are selling fast in some areas...
-
- Gee, I can't believe it. The computer store here on Campus told me today
- that the waiting period for the PB100 is now 4 to 5 weeks (before was
- 'only' 1 or 2 weeks), and the PB100 4/40 with floppy us $1740!!!.
-
- Something is awfully wrong with Apple's marketing. Can somebody explain
- what is the strategy of Apple? Get all the academia people mad as hell?
-
- Luis
-
- PS: can you buy one and ship it to me? I may even take a plane to
- Dallas, it will be cheaper and faster than buying one here!
-