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- From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.133517.11956@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:35:17 GMT
- References: <D2150035.9jsjhn@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <9uBooB23w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News)
- Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <9uBooB23w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- >peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- >> I don't understand. Why has Apple stung these people when they buy
- >> a PB100?
- >
- >If the machine can currently be sold at a profit for #900, the inference is
- >that the month before when I bought it for #1400 someone made #500 of pure
- >profit, no?
-
- So what? They sold the machine at whatever the market would bear. Nobody
- forced anyone to buy a $1400 computer. When Apple found it could not move
- the machines in volume it cut the price. Now I will agree that if I had
- bought a PB100 at the higher price and then seen it so deeply discounted a
- few days later I'd be pissed off. I think I'd mainly be mad at myself
- though.
-
- I got a Mac IIcx about 6 months before it was discontinued and I
- guess that bugged me a bit, but I'm fatalistic about it. I went into the
- deal with my eyes open and realized that the price for an equivalent machine
- would be less at some future date. I decided that the cx would fit my
- needs at the time and that I could afford it.
-
- >If people wait around six months before touching Newton, it could
- >kill the product.
-
- Again, what's your point? Are you implying that people have a "duty" to
- buy new machines so Apple won't go broke? If they price the Newton too high
- then they do it at their own peril. In that case, the consumer will benefit
- again. They will probably dump all the unwanted Newtons at Price Club for
- $49.99 :-) Just witness the phenomenon of the ADAM, IBM PCJr and TI 99/4.
- How about the "Cabbage Patch Kids" dolls? They had waiting lists to sell
- them at $100, and a year later they were in discount stores for $19.99
- (brought to you by COLECO, the same people that made the ADAM). This is
- just the way of business in our country; like the man said "You pays your
- money, you takes your chance".
-
- >> No one should ever buy a computer (any brand!) thinking they are gettting
- >> a machine that will hold its value.
-
- This is very good advice, but seldom heeded. Just look at some of the
- ridiculous expectations for used hardware in misc.forsale.computers....
-
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