CompuServe Messages

> What do you want me to do, Andrew? Send you my invoice? No, I trust you. 🙂 > If you buy retail, you pay retail. If you buy wholesale, you pay > less. Heck, just about anyone can establish a corporate sales > account with CompUSA and get at least another 10 points off > their retail floor price. You hold up the price you paid as why Apple can't fight the PC on price. Yet you compare retail for the Apple vs. a "corporate sales account price" wholesale for the PC. That's great for _your_ sale, but has little bearing on the overall market because most people don't do what you do! Take the average homeowner who wants to buy their kid a computer or wants to do "multimedia". They will go into a store or mail order a system from a magazine. This probably accounts for greater than 95% of non-business/non-educational sales. Most people just don't bother to become "corporations" to get a good personal computer deal! To be fair, you can get Macs wholesale for the corporate and educational markets also. Duh. Your "wholesale" Pentium price, is just as unfair as if I used an Apple employee discount to buy a Mac at half off and offered that price up as why Macs are better! (I'm not an employee, but if I were…). You have to compare the prices that the average person could get without trying very hard. Cheers! —- Andrew