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To: soup who wrote (6657)	12/7/1997 8:23:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Good work, Ed.

To: soup who wrote (6657)	12/7/1997 11:08:00 PM
From: Edward Boghosian	Respond to of 213173

Soup: I read that Apple doesn't have a v.president of sales and/or marketing. Is this true? I read your dialogue. Sony must have some cool deals. Where are the Apple deals? I guess making "Crazy Eddy" type deals is to hoity toity for Apple. I went to the Apple Store and priced some G3s. I get the feeling that all configuations are on the expensive side. No matter how you cut it, it can cost about $2500 easy. I get the feeling these machines are too expensive for the average first time buyer. Apples may have certain things standard whereas on Wintel machines you may have to pay extra but the ordinary buyer doesn't know this and realy is at the mercy of the sales person. This leads to the next questions. Do you think the Apple machines are over engineered for most buyers who don't know beans about computers let alone SCSIs. Getting back to the different configurations. To me a better price range for these machines would be about half the price. Then Apple will be competitive. Is Apple coming out with a below $1000 machine? I guess being late is better than not being there at all.

To: soup who wrote (6657)	12/8/1997 9:58:00 AM
From: Hippieslayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

IF WHAT YOU WROTE IS TRUE, THEN SHOULD GET A JOB AT COMP USA. iT APPEARS THAT THEY DON'T HIRE THE SHARPEST PEOPLE OR HAVE A VERY POOR TRAINING PROGRAM. YOUR STORY WAS NOT VERY GOOD TO HEAR BUT THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE

To: soup who wrote (6657)	12/8/1997 11:06:00 AM
From: JR Robinson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

An excellent post soup! It is sad but true. Apples' marketing dept. or lack of it has been clueless from day one. I am holding out for Rap but if it does not offer crossplatform or the ability to run on Wintel PCs like they or saying, I will have to get real and succumb to Wintels. Ahh the thougt of it. jr

To: soup who wrote (6657)	12/8/1997 6:11:00 PM
From: Dave Jacob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Being a loyal Mac user, your CompUSA story makes me boil. I would like to send a copy of your thread to Apple. Do you have the e mail address for their Marketing or InvestorRrelations Dept.? When the hell is Apple gonna get agressive in its ad program? Frankly, the THINK DIFFERENT campaign is elitist at best or wimpy at worst. I blame them (AAPL) just as much as CompUSA for not combatting such disinformation. They, AAPL, must have their heads up their collective asses. I'm mad not only as a Mac user but as an AAPL stockholder. Thanks for the posting Dave J.