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- From: b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard)
- Subject: Re: Experiences with ElekTek, EduCalc, mail order places?
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:04:00 GMT
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- Joe Horn states:
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- > (1) There's a brochure packed inside every HP48 box that lists
- > available accessories. Notice that EduCALC is featured not only
- > in the list of vendors at the end of the brochure, but in the text
- > too, with many accessories available only from EduCALC (for
- > example, the famous, fabulous HP48 Goodies Disks). ElekTek is not
- > in the brochure. This says to me that HP considers EduCALC a
- > reliable enough source of HP48 accessories to mention it "in the
- > box". But not ElecTek.
- >
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- Paul Rubin replies:
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- >I don't know about the HP48 box but in general it's common for
- >product vendors to include things in the box pointing users
- >to vendors of add-on products. The add-on vendors pay the product
- >vendor a fee to be listed. Not everyone is willing to pay the fee.
- >It could be simply that Elektek wasn't interested in being listed.
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- I make the comment:
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- If you call the HP Direct phone number and request product
- information and prices for calculators, you will receive
- a recorded message to call EDUCalc for all HP calculator
- and assessory products. This says something about EDUCalc.
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- Rick Homard
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