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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (54240)	4/1/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Tip, the polite thing to say is that he pulled it out of his a... No, that's the impolite thing to say. Business box sales declined last year. They are declining this year. The sales have not grown at 60% since...Hell, they've never grown at 60%. And he was talking spending, not units. Totally bizarre. If anyone knows how to do arithmetic, please show me how $452 billion in 1992 grows to $643 Billion in 1997 and that annualizes out to 60% a year. It isn't even 60% absolute.

To: yard_man who wrote (54240)	4/1/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

tippet, FYI. exchange2000.com -BGR.

To: yard_man who wrote (54240)	4/2/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Tip and All, The CompUSA news item was a real scam-a-rama of actual facts distorted by presentation. news.com The company claimed unit sales increases of 20% on desktops and 55% on notebooks. However, those were not same store comparisons. Those were net comps and included an additional 37 stores, 37% of total, due to the Computer City takeover. So, an additional 37% of stores added a total, in units, of 20% more desktop sales? That is horrible. The 55% laptop stuff looks like 25% to the good until we realize they had a laptop blowout sale in February at zero or negative margins. A 15% drop in ASPs for both categories gets laptops to a 10% growth area, if they aren't lying, and desktops solidly in disaster city at down something over 30%. Instead of saying a mixed bag, the headline should have read "Computer Titanic Needs Lifeboats, Now!" <g>