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To: WebDrone who wrote (24676)	5/9/1999 9:07:00 AM
From: LauA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

WebDrone - FYI, all weekend long, Fry's has been honing their ads for the Mother's Day computer sales. They feature an iMac 333 in the right upper corner at $1199. Next to it they place an eMachine. Different configurations and prices each day. Today it has a 400 MHz Celeron, with 15 in. monitor, and a canon 1000 inkjet printer all for $769. (I don't know if the MB will allow the CPU to be tweaked to 450-500.) This is the starkest pricing test that I know of. Suggest that someone drop into their neighborhood Fry's and ask the sales people about product shipment volumes. Does anyone know how much price protection AAPL gives to retailers? Can they return stuff that doesn't sell, or does AAPL give them rebates to cut prices when the CPU is upgraded, etc? Lau