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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:21:05 EST
- From: Chris "Slothman" Stoy <CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92320.192105CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: What's the story with Commodore marketing?
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- I was at the local mall a couple days ago and decided to stop into Electronics
- Boutique to see if they had any new Amiga stuff. After searching the store for
- a few minutes, I finnaly asked the clerk were the Amiga software is. He said
- that they didn't cary any and had no plans to in to future. In fact, he said
- the other E.B.'s in the area had been clearing out their Amiga stock. Is it
- just me, or does this seem like a BAD THING? When I asked him why they were
- dropping Amiga support, he said it was Commodore's fault, that they didn't
- give any support for the machine. He agreed that the Amiga was a great machine
- but that Commodore was killing it; the best thing that could happen for the
- Amiga was if someone took over Commodore.
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- Why does Commodore ignore computer stores like E.B.? Does Commodore even have
- a marketing department? Most of the people I talk to either never heard of the
- Amiga or think it's a fancy game machine. Is Commodore going to get on the
- ball and start letting people know of the Amiga 1200 and 4000, or are they
- going to do the same thing that they did with the earlier Amigas and just hope
- word of mouth is good enough? If Commodore doesn't go out and actively support
- the Amiga, then it's never going to flurish (although it probably wont die,
- thanks to everyone on .advocacy). I love the Amiga, but I'm having trouble
- convincing people that it's a good computer. Commodore needs to give the Amiga
- some public exposure. Me running demos on my 500 isn't going to sell anyone.
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- Chris "Slothman" Stoy | DISCLAIMER: The views expressed within are not
- cms129 at psuvm | mine but those of my pet hamster Gizmo. HE'S
- cms129@psuvm.psu.edu | responsible for this! Blame him! ^^^^
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