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- From: pdenize@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Acorn Sales in NZ
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.173809.12780@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:38:09 +1300
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 35
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- I overheard a phone call "to Acorn NZ" this morning as I was only listening to
- one side of the conversation the reply may not be absolutely exact, it went like
- this.
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- ACORN NZ : Hello Acorn
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- ANONYMOUS : I would like to know the price of an A4000 please
-
- ACORN NZ : I'm sorry he's out to lunch right now ...
-
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- The net result of the call after talking to three of the Acorn NZ head office
- staff was that the caller could not even have an approximate price for the
- order form.
-
- One consolation is that a local Appliance store "Noel Lemmings" is now stocking
- A3010 and A4000 ranges. The local dealer must be really &%$$ed off. I think if
- he put every advert he has ever made (and you could possibly add all Acorn NZs
- ads to the list as well) you might nearly have covered the Advertising space
- Noel Lemmings used in a flyer last weekend Advertising the two Acorn machines.
-
- The local dealer seems to be playing on the fact that its Computer and Manual
- and nothing else. But Noel Leemings beat him in advertising a help desk.
-
-
- Paul Denize
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