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Amiga laptop

    03-Jan-92 00:35:29
Sb: #45035-Amiga laptop
Fm: Wayne Cole 76370,621
To: Tony Muscarella 70367,3321
Tony, No feathers ruffled. I have to drive two hours to a dealer whereas I used to only have to go 45 minutes. The lack of dealers is partly due to CBM's awful treatment of current and wannabe dealers. From what I've seen, they act as though they have the hottest product going saleswise, get the prospective dealer to put himself in a very precarious position, then push him into supporting all kinds of unprofitable deals (like educational sales) and then fail to support them with a REAL national advertising cmapaign. (e.g. now that Christmas is over CBM stopped its radio ads, but IBM and Mac are hitting the radio waves harder than ever). OTOH, I know a lot of video/graphic houses, especially since the Toaster came along, that will VAR the Amiga and its software. Usually you can go in, work out a deal and have your hardware/software within 3-4 days at prices marginally above mail order. Not too bad if you can stand the wait and don't need the feely-toucheebefore you buy. wmc