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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Commodore Australia ... on the ball?
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.172721.23020@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Jun13.111350.8458@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun15.031359.29332@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 17:27:21 GMT

In article <1991Jun15.031359.29332@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> grue@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Adam Eberbach) writes:
> A great pity that they don't try to take some business market share.

It'd be nice, but that'd be nice anywhere. At least C= Australia are making
progress *somewhere*!

> The 500 is a fine machine (Which incidentally at $900 Aus
> is a ripoff. K-Mart are now selling them at $700 Aus. Is it worth mail
> ordering yet? :-) )

No, that $200 price difference is almost all Australia's gross customs duty
and sales tax. You'd have to pay it whether you bought locally or imported
it yourself. And the bureaucratic hassles invlved would be monstrous. If you
want to go that way, get a friend to bring one back in their hand luggage
out of their duty-free allowance (may take a couple of people... I forget
the figures for Oz: you get $400/person in the US).

> but it's not the one that's going to win the machine wars.

I'm sorry, but it is. I couldn't even convince my brother, who is an artist,
to buy one while I was down there.

> >	Grace Brothers also said the 500 was their best selling machine.

> Of all? Good to hear, but I think a lot of those sales are being taken 
> away from Nintendo or Sega, rather than Apple/Clone makers.

This was the computer department, and the competition was Atari STs and
various PC clones. Including the Commodore Colt, incidently.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
