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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: WB Fax Upgrade
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 03:57:10 -0500
- Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- Message-ID: <1ibih6INNq97@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- References: <1993Jan2.204612.17857@netcom.com> <89@ravel.ati.com> <1ib5ubINNt8a@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1ib5ubINNt8a@gap.caltech.edu> tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu (Tobi Delbruck) writes:
- >isn't it supposed to be the other way around? why should we pay $50
- >more for precisely the same item?
-
- Well, for starters there's this thing called a "monopoly". If you
- are the sole source for a particular product, then people who want
- that product have to pay you however much you're charging, or do
- without. In this case, Telebit is the only legal source for the FAX
- upgrade, so you can pay them $149 for the FAX upgrade, do without a
- FAX upgrade, or sell your WorldBlazer and buy a ZyXEL or a Supra or
- something like that.
-
- In addition, the mailing that *I* got from Telebit was fairly clear
- that the $99 price was a special limited-time offer sort of thing, and
- that the price would eventually go up. Well, surprise surprise,
- "eventually" is now.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-