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To: K. Larson who wrote (4700)	11/13/1997 9:06:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 8002

>>Deduct the printer and the monitor, and it's awfully close to the $1000 system everybody talks about.<< 30% higher is not "awful close." this includes shipping and is actually a lower % pricier than the actual situation. i'll give gtw the benefit of the doubt ;-)

To: K. Larson who wrote (4700)	11/13/1997 10:18:00 PM
From: wolfdog2	Respond to of 8002

K. Larson, GTW's deal doesn't sound competitively priced at all. To begin with people replacing an old computer need neither printer nor moniter, in all probability, so just subtracting them out doesn't make sense. But if you do, the system is still not state of the art. I figure the printer and the moniter are worth about $350 the most, based on comparison shopping I've done. That leaves a base price for the computer of $1150. For $49 more you can get the Compaq 4508 which has a 200 MHZ MMX cpu. Which would you rather have? Also when you are trying to make a sale, it is probably better to unbundle than to bundle. The people a CPQ and CPU aren't dopes. If they thought the way to go was bundling the computer with the moniter and printer, you can bet your bippy they would have. So I'll repeat what I've been saying all along: GTW does not have an entry in the under $1000. market. Period.