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To: soup who wrote (10695)	4/1/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Linda Kaplan	Respond to of 213176

Soup, Oh, no! I wasn't asking them to customize any advice to me. I was asking about the SPECS of the hardware! ANY dealer should be willing to do that for free. I actually was going to buy it from them, too. My credit cards are right here next to me, cooling off. I sympathize with salesmen who don't like to spend hours with a customer who picks their brains and then goes to buy somewhere else. But the fact is that Apple is getting the sale, even if I had bought the Mac from a catalog. It all goes back to count toward Apple sales. As it happens they were offering the most tempting configuration, so I was going to buy from the Apple Store -- even though I'd have had to pay 8.25% tax on a $5000 purchase (no small amount of money), and would have not had to pay the tax from the catalogs. But anyway, I think it's a good sign that they're selling a lot of Macs that they wanted me to wait so long for it, and had the audacity to want me to pay them to tell me about the specs. Linda