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To: Thomas M. who wrote (43370)	1/14/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 132070

<<Apple stuffed the channel. Best Buy and CompUSA cleared it by slashing prices. This is the way a stuffed channel always gets cleared. >> This is very true. I think almost all the iMac sold by BB and CompUSA were accompanied by a free printer and a free scanner. And Apple will not pay for those freebies. That's for sure. So it is the retailers who pocketed the loss.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (43370)	1/14/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: David Semoreson	Respond to of 132070

>Apple stuffed the channel. NOT! According to Fool Plate "Salomon downgraded the shares based partly on fears that Apple had stuffed the retail channel to get to its unbelievable $25 million (two days) worth of inventory, down from $400 million a year ago and $78 million in the September quarter." The reality is that their inventory is low because of great production management by Tim Cook, and because they closed production in mid-Dec for the installation of a new SAP system, and clearouts in preparation for introduction of the new G3 and of multi-coloured iMacs. Also they have fewer SKU's than other computer manufacturers. Just the facts. ** David