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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Process Boy who wrote (85352)	1/5/2000 11:34:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572209

PB, <Upselling? What is, and explain the mechanics of, upselling. Assuming this is a capacity issue: If there is demand for 500's, you actually suggest that Intel should sell <500's, and have the customers for the =>500 parts upset, instead of the customers for <500? > Basically upselling means selling more than the customer wants. Gateway wanted 450s and Intel said "no, we are out of 450s, but we can give you some 500s or 550s". Some people bit and some didn't. <I don't get it. Who in the hell does business that way. AMD?> Everyone upsells when given a chance. That's how most business work. Intel got into trouble because: a) apparently the OEMs got no notice. i.e., all of sudden they didn't have the very product they were counting on. b) An aggressive competitor is knocking on the door and selling the right product to other OEMs. c) this was the most important quarter for OEMs - Christmas comes only once [unlike in "The WOrld is Not Enough" ;-) ] Chuck