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From: userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New GS ROMs
Message-ID: <244@ualtamts.BITNET>
Date: 18 Aug 89 17:01:02 GMT
References: <237@ualtamts.BITNET> <10768@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: University of Alberta (MTS)
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In article <10768@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <237@ualtamts.BITNET> userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) writes:
>>...
>>dollars that I invested into it.  If they upgrade it, then I
>>feel that it's an admission by the said company that their
>>machine wasn't the best even by their standards.
>
>This is rationalization, not reasoning.  Do you really expect to be
>able to take your automobile back to the dealer when a new model
>comes out and insist on a free upgrade of every component that
>the manufacturer was able to improve between models?
 
No, but I expect them to replace the engine if it breaks down with-
in the warranty period.  And if it's outside of that period then
they should issue a product recall.  I don't expect a brand new car
when replacing the engine would do just as nicely in an old body.
 
>What does the time it takes to perform the modling have to do with
>the cost of the part?  It probably costs nearly $7 just to transport
>the part to you, if you figure in all the overhead.
 
I'm dunno about what tumbuktu you live in, but nearly everyplace
else in North America you can send something as light as that molded
part via 3rd class at under $0.50.  Consider that the plastic itself
(in the quantities that they'd have to buy it) would cost well under
$0.50 as well, and the labor cost (anyone can be paid $6/hr. to mold
180 parts per hour, or $0.0333 per part) as well as the packaging
(dumping them into a plastic bag?).  And then 100% profit on top of
that.
 
That sounds remarkably like a price around $2.50 INCLUDING PROFIT.
I'd like to see how you figured out $7.00 and where your company
does it's business...
 
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