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- From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
- Subject: Re: GATEWAY TELEPATH @ $1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.002318.9759@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:23:18 GMT
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- john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas) writes:
-
- >If you will carefully check the ads you will see that the TelePath is
- >indeed advertised as a separate product that will only be sold to
- >those that purchase or have previously purchased a *separate* Gateway
- >computer system (*any* Gateway system). That is clearly a per se
- >unlawful tie-in sales practice.
-
- How is that an unlawful sales practice? I certainly think it's
- limiting themselves to the potential customers they could get if they
- opened up sales to anyone (which they seem to have done, according to
- your experience). But I don't see how only selling to existing
- Gateway owners is unlawful. I really don't think Zeos or any of these
- other mail order companies that advertise in Computer Shopper are
- going to sell me a hard drive or whatever as a separate item.
-
- Mike
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