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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Message-ID: <184@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 31 May 88 19:27:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: mango.184
References: <2996@crash.cts.com> <137@amtfocus.UUCP> <54834@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <54834@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <137@amtfocus.UUCP> jeffle@amtfocus.UUCP (Jeff Leitheiser) writes:
>-> Motorola makes chips, but another division also makes unix computers.
>-> Right now we lose money on our memory boards because of the outrages
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>-> spot market prices.
>
>Careful what you say Jeff, we wouldn't want the Japanese accusing us (the US)
>of dumping memory boards. 
>-- 
>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
>These opinions are my own and no one elses. But you knew that, didn't you.

I hear a subtle tongue in your cheek there, Chuck, but you should be
careful what you say; there's a big difference between "dumping" and
a "loss leader".

Dumping specifically means that you are selling a product in one market
for less than your cost, while selling it at more normal prices in another
market.  The "loss leader", selling at a price lower than your cost to attact
customers to your other (profitable) products, is common practice in
many (if not most) industries, including food retailing and startup high-tech.

This whole thing has certainly gotten out of hand, and I have many flames
for the way the Reagan administration has mis-handled it, but this is
not the proper group...

Even so, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a new "windfall profits tax"
is being imposed on memory makers who are "taking unfair advantage" of the
sharply higher prices which have resulted from the "normal" supply & demand
behavior of this "free open market".

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-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
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