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To: d-fndr who wrote (38)	6/25/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Re: Is the product moving through to end users now or are retailers simply adding to inventory at what seem like good prices? That's a good question and I think an appropriate answer would be both. I ordered extra due to the deal, but my marketing experience tells me that the big boys will be reducing retail pricing forcing the rest of the market to respond in kind. My intent in ordering extra is to take advantage of the time frame between these high retail prices and the expected lower prices. With that in mind I wouldn't order with a long time frame in mind. IOM needs to reduce the price of their disks so that the average user will not think twice or three times before buying a 10 pk. The conclusion that could be easily made is that huge demand occurred, just lower the price a little and look at the volumes, it's huge. The prices of Zip disks will be coming down. I can't say at what point in the business plan that it happens but I suspect that we are starting to see what Dunn meant when stating that he wanted IOM to be a 10 bil company. Driving the prices lower by activating efficiencies is key to making the purchase of Zip a given and the use of disks are of little consequence. Regards Reseller

To: d-fndr who wrote (38)	6/25/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

I think it is both.....no dealer/s are going to order that much inventory to have sit on shelfs. I think you will have some of that, but if you notice that the ads comming out now are starting to reflect some of the price breaks. The dealers are passing some of the savings on to the consuer...if they continue the rebates, this could get real good, drives feed disks, disks feed drives,...and wait till the cpq. really hits. Ingram does not have all the models in yet. They are moving quite a few of the low end machines.