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- From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn pushes out small dealers
- Message-ID: <DBH.92Aug21155806@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 14:58:06 GMT
- References: <4415@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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- In-reply-to: sfc@ukc.ac.uk's message of 21 Aug 92 13:50:40 GMT
-
- In article <4415@gos.ukc.ac.uk> sfc@ukc.ac.uk (Si.) writes:
-
- >Acorn announced to him a whole set of new rules and regulations
- >detailing the requirements he should meet to continue being an Acorn
- >dealer. Some of these requirements are listed here:
- >
- > He should have available liquid accets of not less than 50,000
- > pounds (bank guarenteed).
- > He should have at least two members of fully trained staff.
- > He should stock x number of every Acorn machine, plus all third
- > party hardware, and software.
- > And the list goes on.....
-
- This is incredible. Even Dixons and John Lewis will have trouble
- meeting some of those. Obviously Acorn want to protect their
- reputation but surely not to the point of making it difficult for
- people to get hold of their stuff?
-
- I was really pleased to see that John Lewis in Brent Cross had an
- A5000 on the shelf last month but even round London there are too few
- Acorn dealers.
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs. You're fired!
-