Re: FAXination Update

[kindall@ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Matt Portune (mportune@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
: > : A 270mb SCSI hardrive for $500? Why, when most any other vendor will 
: > : sell you the same thing for $179!

: > The prices are higher on Apple II drives because they require special 
: > setup, formatting, and support.  However, I'll have our purchasing guy 

: No they don't.  With the exception of a controller card, they're not any 
: different (physically) than any other drive on any platform.  
: Formatting?  It's not "special" formatting, it's just "different" 
: formatting.  Why should that crank up the price?  I'm not bashing.  I 
: have been and always shall be a loyal QC fanatic.  I just disagree on the 
: above statement, that's all.

Actually, we buy the drive mechanisms pre-formatted for the Mac from 
Quantum, I believe.  It does take considerably more time to set up an 
Apple II drive than to set up a Mac drive.  I'm sure that's not the 
reason for the price difference, though; the real reason is undoubtedly 
support.  Since we are one of the few remaining sources for Apple II 
information and support, calls to our technical support line tend to 
cover more than just the product that the caller is having trouble 
with.  In fact, many of the calls we get are from people who have never 
bought anything from us.  (It didn't help that, for a while, Apple 
itself was referring its Apple II technical support to us.)

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