Re: Intel Price Drop?

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From: Matt Conway
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 00:00

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James Brokaw (hedgehog@photobooks.com) wrote:
: Viper1 (viper1@bellsouth.net) wisely posted to git.general:

:  >Just because Intel cut prices, Chris, doesn't mean that the dealers
:  >will pass on the savings to you!  Could be they'll just chalk it up to
:  >the old car dealer trick....ADP....Additional Dealer Profit!

: Its as much the distributer as anything else - the prices we buy chips at dropped
: closer to 15% than 48%.  Margins are slimmer in retail than they've been in a few
: years....

For now.  Eventually the distributer's prices will drop as they try and
undersell the compitition.  (I hope :)
--
Matt Conway                
gt2916a@acme.gatech.edu    
mc95@acme.gatech.edu                   
"Each of us, a cell of awareness" - Rush "Freewill"

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From: gt2916a@acmex.gatech.edu (Matt Conway)
Subject: Re: Intel Price Drop?
Date: 1997/05/05
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