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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn pushes out small dealers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22235410patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz>
- From: Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:54:10 GMT
- Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
- In-Reply-To: <17981@acorn.co.uk>
- Lines: 23
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- bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) in <17981@acorn.co.uk> writes:
- >
- > Who would be happy with a dealer who didn't have a good range of third
- > party stuff? Who would be happy if, when they rang up for technical suport,
- > they were told "we have to get back to you on that" or "sorry our technical
- > person is off on two weeks holiday, my advice is don't switch the computer
- > on again 'till they get back"?
-
- But usually it's the bigger department stores who are the ones who DON'T
- have the technical staff. Whitcoulls in NZ is a good example of that
- these days. The small places are usually run by people who are selling
- the machines because they know and like them.
-
- I don't think you're going to get better dealers by cutting out the
- smaller ones, just a higher percentage of ones who don't know much about
- the machines... for them it's just another computer that doesn't sell as
- well as the Amiga or PC.
-
- Sure, the smaller dealers can't afford to have a large stock, but (in NZ
- at least) the smaller dealers seem to have a good selection of quality
- software whereas the bigger dealers tend to get anything that's listed
- in the catalogue.
-
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