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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joon Song who wrote (43944)	1/19/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Respond to of 58324

Joon, re: your reasoning, "by selling the 5-packs to OEMs, the OEMs will take care of helping the customer getting it working and much less likely for the drive to get returned to Iomega." Yes, I agree with you wholeheartedly, it would be much less of a pain to Iomega to sell the drives to smaller dealers (OEM's). It would also be much less of a pain to the big chains to not have to deal with them. So, maybe it's a "gentleman's agreement" - Iomega doesn't push these to the chains, and the chains don't ask for them, but take all the externals they can get. After all, they got them at first, when manufacturing capacity was much lower, but not now. Cameron "Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATM's?"

To: Joon Song who wrote (43944)	1/19/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Chucky	Respond to of 58324

Joon, "He takes it home, can't get it working, and returns it. I'm not sure what CompUSA would do with it, but I would guess it gets returned to Iomega and becomes Iomega's problem." These are usually sold as open box items marked down 15-20% at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. If you take a look around, there are a lot of open box items, but Circuit City has just recently made it more difficult by getting stricter with their restocking fee. I was lucky enough to pick up a SCSI insider which was missing the instruction manual for $50 after the $50 rebate last year from Best Buy. Whatever the case, IOM won't have to deal with it. Later Chucky