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Non-Tech : CompUSA (CPU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blankmind who wrote (2070)	4/6/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Bonzo	Respond to of 3187

Why you want to touch and feel a computer is not the question. Fully 50% of the households do not own a PC yet - as hard as that is to believe. These are the households that CPU is interested in attracting, albeit these sales will prove more difficult than the first 50%. CPU's proposed sub-$600.00 PC may help get them in the store for demo's and handholding. Those who are averse to the CPU brick & mortar experience, as many here are, may be interested in the CPU on-line experience, which in my opinion will eventually prove to be one of the best, if not the best on the web. Customer service, technical support, as well as low prices are not the hallmark of the vast majority of computer E-tailers. If CPU can successfully provide this to their customers they will be tapping into a business model that really doesn't exist (nor has it in their stores) - a successful online store should prove to be the impetus to revive the struggling CPU brand and business. In addition, new products and technology that will launch later this year should bring more buyers into the brick & mortar; Pentium III (a bust so far), Windows 2000, Dreamcast Game Console, Playstation 2, CPU branded sub-$600. PC, ?