Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!hubcap!disd
From: disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Trade in Program
Message-ID: <2542@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 18:11:35 GMT
References: <38258@linus.UUCP>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <38258@linus.UUCP>, by sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk):
> 
> In article <16894@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver) writes:
> 
>> OK, then here's my Pleading and Begging.
   Some Pleading and Begging deleted

>> I WANT AN A2000. I supported you when you needed those sales.  I bought my
>> A1000 ONE MONTH after it started shipping (Oct. '85).  Now how about returning
>> the favor!
I want one too, but I'm not planning to beg Commodore to bail me out.

> 
> 1.  What stopped you from taking advantage of the tradein deal last year?
>     Commodore extended the deal several times, giving you plenty of time
>     to decide whether the Amiga 2000's expansion capabilities were 
>     worth the $1000 (at most) to tradein (not even considering the
>     Amiga 1000 buyback deals which were also available!).  If you
>     couldn't afford the $1000 tradein deal, how come you can afford
>     to buy all this expansion hardware for the Amiga 2000?
Agreed.  I just called Computer Mail Order and they told me that their
A2000 price is $1449.  Geez.  Surely one can sell one's A1000 for $300
or $400.  At this point you're talking about much the same deal as you
had when C= offered the generous trade up deal.  I didn't have the cash
to trade up when C= offered.  That was life.  Now I've got the cash and
the will, and I've found that the mail order dealers can make the way
almost as sweet as it was when C= made its offer.  So quitcher bitchin
and find a suck... um, person to buy your A1000.

> 
> 2.  You might wait for the Amiga 2500's to start shipping, and hope that
>     the price of an Amiga 2000 will drop.
Maybe, but I suspect that the RAM prices will drive the price up, or at
least keep it level.

> 
> 3.  You might wait for the Amiga 3000, at which time the price of an 
>     Amiga 2000 will almost certainly drop.
Probably, but who wants to wait *that* long?   :-) :-)















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