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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Trade in Program
Message-ID: <180@kesmai.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 88 20:51:55 GMT
References: <38258@linus.UUCP> <2542@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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In article <2542@hubcap.UUCP>, disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Gary Heffelfinger   ---   Employed by, but not the mouthpiece of 
>                           Clemson University.
> ---===      Amiga.  The computer for the best of us.     ===---
Well, not exactly.  When the trade in deal was on I got a 2000 for $1000 and
got to keep my 1000.  I then sold the 1000 for $500 and swapped my
microbotics 2M memory expansion (with multi-function) for a 2M Micron board.
Therefore my total upgrade cost was $500, not $1000 and the guy I sold the
1000 to got the 1000, 2M Microbotics with the multifunction daughter board
for around $850 all told.  I think we both did well on the deal.

I therefore can understand people who still have an 1000 and now have the
scratch to trade to the 2000 being interested in the trade-in offer if
Commodore hinted they might be willing to re-instate it because
it is quite possible there might be some similar deals.

David Albrecht