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- From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
- Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
- Message-ID: <dlcogswe.726285732@vela>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <dlcogswe.726208642@vela> <1993Jan5.212520.29415@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:02:12 GMT
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- >In article <dlcogswe.726208642@vela> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
- >>I talked to a Radius customer support person today and asked him some
- >>questions about their upcoming ISA XGA-2 board. He's sending me a full info
- >>pack, but these are some things he told me:
- >>
- >> -- Shipping Mid-January
- >> -- Direct sales only initially because of high demand
- >> -- First shipment is already spoken for
- >> -- Price: $499. Period. No specials, no retail discounts.
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- >Yeah, right. That's called price fixing. They can not dictate what
- >retailers will charge. And considering that all sales will be through
- >dealers, I don't see how they can make this statement. Unless they
- >charge their dealers $499. Dealers will get a cheaper price if
- >they're to sell it at $499, which means there will be discounting and
- >competition.
-
- He told me dealers wouldn't be getting any boards for quite a while
- because of the high demand. I figure by June or so there will be a
- couple of other boards out there and Radius will get their feces
- assembled and the boards will be available for $300 or so.
-
- --
- Dan Cogswell Or as we say in Michigan: "Dee-troit"
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