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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125800)	1/22/2001 9:54:46 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten, Pentium 4 systems sell out "as fast as they come in." Hope the sample size goes up a few orders of magnitude and keeps the same trend! Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125800)	1/22/2001 10:28:56 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Pentium 4 systems sell out "as fast as they come in." Good salespeople can figure out what you want to hear, and they'll let you hear it. I don't ask the clerks how things are selling when I visit stores, so I can't contradict that report. But I've seen 1GHZ HP and Compaq Athlons show up then disappear, then 1.1GHZ machines, then 1.2GHZ machines. I've seen the Micron DDR machines on the shelves one week and no sign of them the next. But ever since they first showed up mid-December, I've never seen Circuit City, Best Buy, or CompUSA without (at least) their floor model P4 prominently displayed - and I've never seen it tagged "last one", either. Mayber it's just a matter of hundreds coming in each shipment so they can't run out. I never did get back to Micro Center to check on the stack of marked down P4s I saw there before Christmas. I'll try to get over there and see what's happened to them. I'd encourage anyone on the thread to visit CompUSA, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc. and look around. Post what you see. Just because P4 was dead before Christmas, doesn't mean it isn't selling now. Sometimes the overstock is on shelves and can be counted. See what you can see. You really have to visit a store several times in a week to get an idea of how things are going. Sales staff are told to not answer questions about sales truthfully - since most people asking such questions are from competing stores. If you are persistent, they may call their managers - or security. Often you can find someone who likes to talk, so give it a try - but take anything you hear with a grain of salt (whether it's to your liking, or seems to be bad news). The guy at Best Buy you're questioning may decide you're from Circuit City, then try to "mess with your head." Dan