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- Subject: Re: A600 price cut
- Message-ID: <ALANB.92Aug28113912@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:39:12 GMT
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- In-reply-to: G.Roberts@cs.ucl.ac.uk's message of 27 Aug 92 12:27:34 GMT
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- >>>>> On 27 Aug 92 12:27:34 GMT, G.Roberts@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Graham Roberts) said:
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- > Some good news?
- > Commodore UK have officially cut the price of the A600 to 299 pounds
- > (was 399 pounds). The A600 HD stays at 499 pounds. It is claimed that
- > 65,000 A600 machines have been sold in the first 3 months of sales
- > (in the UK). A reason given for the price cut was the high reliability
- > of the machine, with less than 1% returned.
- > (Tough luck if you were one of the 65,000 who bought an A600 at the
- > old price though?)
-
- That assumes all 65,000 were sold at list price. (When it first came out
- there were widespread predictions of a price drop once A500 stocks were
- reduced - looks like they were right).
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