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- CENTSIBLE SOFTWARE SOLD
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- Submitted by Robert Bernardo
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- Friday, February 7, Bill Griffin
- signed the papers taking over the
- company name and inventory of
- Centsible Software. Run by Scott
- Parker for the last several years,
- Centsible software is purported to
- have the largest stock of commercial
- Commodore and Amiga software in the
- world. Covering 800 square feet of
- floor space with software/pallets
- stacked 4 to 9 feet high, the
- Centsible inventory is stored in a
- warehouse.
-
- News of the impending sale broke
- on Tuesday, February 4. In a couple of
- letters to the e-newsletter, Amiga
- Update, Bill Griffin wrote about his
- concerns in trying to buy the company.
- One buyer wanted to put forth the
- money in order so that all the
- inventory could be sold off piece-by-
- piece on eBay, the Internet website
- for auctioning goods.
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- Bill wanted to keep the inventory
- off of eBay and run Centsible as a
- real business catering to Commodore
- and Amiga users. Bill, an employee
- (technician) of Centsible and
- publisher of the paper magazine, the
- New Amigans, needed extra money to
- close the deal with Scott before the
- other buyer could put his money down.
- Through the generosity of several
- individuals -- who Bill has said will
- be repaid -- he was able to get the
- thousands of dollars necessary for the
- down payment.
-
- In a telephone conversation, Bill
- said that he wants to continue keeping
- Centsible as a profitable business. He
- stated that there is a relatively
- large Amiga market in the U.S. with at
- least 3,000 users. Centsible will be
- Bill's job, and he's expecting to
- spend 8-10 hours a day running it. The
- largest buyers of Commodore and Amiga
- software have lately come from Puerto
- Rico, Panama, and Brazil.
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- Bill has begun the task of moving
- the Centsible inventory to his storage
- facility. Also he wants to revise the
- Centsible website, making it easier to
- use. He wants more ways to put the
- Centsible name out front of the
- public. Having attended Amiga shows
- like AmiWest 2000 and the Gateway
- Amiga Expo 2001, he is interested in
- attending Commodore shows, like the
- Louisville Commodore Expo and the
- Chicago Commodore Expo. (His town of
- Edwardsburg, Michigan is only a few
- hours from Chicago and a few hours
- more from Louisville.)
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- Bill has been into Commodore for
- many years, uses Commodores in his ham
- radio club, and is a member of his
- local Amiga club.
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- To contact Bill Griffin, write to
- him at
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- P.O. Box 447
- Edwardsburg, Michigan 49112-0447
- U.S.A.
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- or e-mail him at
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- wd8izh@beanstalk.net
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