CompuServe Messages

Ang: We've gone around and around on that one before! First, how would we "certify" that the user actually had a board, unless they sent it to us. Pain in the ***. Second, in this scenario, everybody makes their normal profit, except us! Kind of de-incents the folks here to think of our margin going to a rebate — especially since the rebate would have to be pretty substantial, I would think, to get the customer to pop for another $1000 or so. Like you, we want to K.I.S.S.! We just can't see how, without giving away a big chunk of our margin. A $100 or $200 dollar rebate wouldn't be enough to get people to buy (we know, we've tried them). It's got to be more like $500, which is about the same as wrapping the board in $$$$ instead of foam when we send it out. Jim Carlton Hercules Computer Technology