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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <rhoward.722037046@matd>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:50:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.202440.6147@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <kzin.721535677@cc.gatech.edu> <1992Nov14.133746.16403@uhura1.uucp>
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- bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes:
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- >In article <kzin.721535677@cc.gatech.edu> kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes:
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- >>>Both prices are *non-discountable*.
-
- >>This is Wrong. There are educational discounts available.
- >>For example, the base SparcClassic system that costs $4295 will
- >>cost $3356 with eduational discount.
-
- >Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this give the term "non-discountable"
- >that appears on Sun's price lists a different meaning than one
- >might expect?
-
- Not necessarily. Many companies that have a fixed price product
- without discount structures for different customers (I can think
- of plenty) will give their academic / education customers some
- sort of discount (you can imagine the reasons).
-
- Robert
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