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- From: alan@km4ba.uucp (Alan Barrow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: PB100 deals - PB 145 4/40 for $899, call 900/PBE-LVIS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.061933.1335@km4ba.uucp>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 06:19:33 GMT
- Organization: km4ba's packet radio gateway
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- > Has it occured to anyone else that Powerbook sightings are becoming the
- >Elvis sightings of the computer world?
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- I think I a potential scam here!!!! PB-R-US
-
- Anyway... I see a clear trend here... Both HP and Apple are doing major
- product "flushes" to clear the system of old product. Use loss/leader
- tactics to clear the queue of old product... maybe tied to new product
- orders?
-
- Certainly increases the individual dealer volume, thus discount.
-
- Large dealers like Microcenter have done this on laserjets and Apple's
- now for several months. I see a direct correlation between new product
- anouncements and firesales of previous generation products.
-
- I think I will wait for the 160/180 to come out and buy a 145 when the
- price drops!
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- Alan Barrow km4ba | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack
- jab@ | ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched
- hpuerca.atl.hp.com | C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
- ..!gatech!kd4nc! | All those moments will be lost in time -
- km4ba!alan | like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy Batty
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