Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.word.cs.cmu.edu!eht From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How much $$ was your Cube? Keywords: money, bucks, greenbacks, moolah, sheckels, fins, smackers Message-ID: <5848@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 13:03:32 GMT References: <10727@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <7360@microsoft.UUCP> <4997@tank.uchicago.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 In article <4997@tank.uchicago.edu> barry@daisy.UUCP (Barry Merriman) writes: >In article <7360@microsoft.UUCP> t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) writes: >> >>NeXT is not going to raise the price for anything, anytime. Look what happened > >Not so---here at the University of Chicago, the Cube started out >selling at $7195 several months ago (and currently, I think), already >a 10% markup over the original $6500 figure. > The extra $695 someone's markup. The $6500 figure quoted excludes university markup for costs of support, etc. -- Eric H. Thayer School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon (412) 268-7679 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213