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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: price increase - bad advice
Keywords: price increase advice
Message-ID: <69588@sun.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 88 16:52:42 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>In August I mentioned to a good friend of mine at Apple
>that I wanted to buy a Mac SE.  My friend said to wait,
>that there would be an announcement in September that
>would affect prices.  

>So now my
>SE will cost me more, not less, and my friend is sorry
>and embarrased.

Actually, your friend should be more than embarrsed. Leaking company
proprietary information is, last I looked, a firing offense. Your friend
should be worried that he might lose his job. 

>What I would really like is for someone at Apple to
>say that they don't do this kind of thing on purpose
>to stick it to their employees who talk and to the friends
>who listen.  Then again, maybe they do it on purpose.

>Comment, Apple?

I'm not Apple, but I'll comment anyway. 

Your friend blew it. Unannounced, company private information is not a
commodity to be bantered between friends. It's a corporate resource. By
blowing the whistle on this (and THEN getting it wrong!) he cost you 
money. He also cost you time where you might have had the machine being
useful to you. He also cost his company a sale. Potentially, lots of sales.

It's a situation that can get Apple into trouble with its stockholders and
the SEC. It's called 'inside information' -- and it can get people sent to
jail. Ask Ivan Boesky.

No sympathy from this angle. You decided to listen to an unconfirmed rumor,
and got burned. Your friend broke company security by distributing company
proprietary information. And you're pissed at Apple? 

Get real.


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