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 Lines: 58 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? :-) :-) -- Gary Heffelfinger --- Employed by, but not the mouthpiece of Clemson University. ---=== Amiga. The computer for the best of us. ===---