APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri May 3 23:15:42 2002

> From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>

> The problem is that the popular U.S. vendors expend entirely too much of
their
> resources on packaging, thinking, perahaps correctly, that it will help
sales,
> but they forget, oir perhaps not, that the individualized packaging will
make
> their systems difficult to upgrade over time, thereby making the
long-term
> usefulness of considerably less value.

Dick, I believe they do this deliberately, to inhibit upgrades and repairs.
 I make a lot on upgrades and repairs of systems I originally built and
sold, but the big names only make money when they sell a machine, so
naturally they prefer that people replace their PCs instead of fixing them
or beefing them up.

When people come into my shop and I can get them to understand "total cost
of ownership," they buy from me every time.

Glen
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Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 23:15:42 BST