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From: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger)
Subject: Re: Raw end of the deal...
Organization: Comspec Communications Inc  Toronto Ontario
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 16:21:37 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.162137.8999@comspec.uucp>
References: <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender:  Darrell Grainger

In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes:
>
>  Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter,
>explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer?

 Commodore US policies are independent of all other countries. In some cases
this can work against your country but in some cases it can work for you. 
For example, in Canada the warrantee for Amiga computers (and all peripherals)
has always been one year parts and labour. If an authorised service centre is
not local to you you can drop it off at the place of purchase and they ship it
to the nearest service centre, no charge to you. In the US, the warrantee on
Amigas was originally ninety days. It was not until sometime after the release
of the Amiga 2000 (something like a year after) that the warrantee in the US
was bumped up to one year.

 When Canadians heard of the "Power Up" program they complained to their
dealers (me) and to Commodore directly. We dealers in turn complained to
our reps at Commodore. Commodore Canada then made their own version of the
"Power Up" program, called the "Trade Up" program. If Commodore in your
country does not hear from you then will not bother spending the time to
create such a program. NOTE: because each country is finanically independent
of other countries (speaking in terms of the Commodore company) they cannot
always impliment the same programs as another country. 

>
>Alex Krooglik			krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ.AU
>Chem Eng Stude, and proud of it
>		"Only wankers insist on wasting time writing a totally
>		 meaningless message at the bottom of their .sig*"


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