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- From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)
- Subject: Re: SPARC Classic edu pricing
- Message-ID: <9232506.13548@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne
- References: <peterj.722160609@infs1>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:46:10 GMT
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- In article <peterj.722160609@infs1> peterj@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Peter E. Jones) writes:
- >Has anyone got any joy out of Sun on how they have arrived at their
- >Australian discounted (sic) price for the Classic? In the US
- >the list price for the Classic is U$4,295 and edu at U$3,356.
- >The Oz price of A$8,500 hardly makes it competitive with other choices.
- >
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- Something like this i guess..
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- 4295/0.70 = 6135.71
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- @33 1/3% ~ 2045.00 (profit etc..)
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- Total = $8180
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- I guess the difference is shipping.. etc..
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- Sun like all companies needs to make a profit too..(that inclues Sun Australia)
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