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From: John.Robertson@jukes.wimsey.bc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Crazy Price Variations
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Message-ID: <19951369@jukes.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 09 May 94  21:47:44
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Hi, Recently it was written...

 g> Date: 30 Apr 1994 13:28:55 GMT
 g> Organization: Duke University
 g> Message-ID: <2ptmen$lio@news.duke.edu>
 g> Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom

 g> I just recently added a CD-Rom to my home system, and have been 
 g> in the market for kids cd's.  I'm amazed at the price variations. 
 g> For example:

 g>           Egghead   Peoples  Global   Discount
 g>                      Comp     Dirs     Micro
 g>           ------    ----    ----     ------
 g> Arthurs      33      40       28       13 (!)
 g> Grandma/me   33      40       28       15  (!)
 g> SD Zoo       43      45       28       11   (!!)

 g> I knew that the retail stores would be higher, but by an order of
 g> 3?  And how can Discount Computer undercut the ohter mail order 
 g> places I looked at (Global prices are typical, if not lower, than
 g> 2 or 3 other places I looked at).  *And* the shipping is a lot 
 g> cheapter from Discount.

 g> No surprise, I ordered these three CD Roms from Discount Micro.

Well, And please understand I don't know these (Discount Micro) folks but
I might suggest to you that if a price is too good to be true, that it
usually is! There is a problem in the sales and distribution of 
Counterfit cd's and we have noticed this in the sales of some
direct marketing and mail order houses. Fer instance, a company that operates
out the west coast sells a very cheap disc ($15) of 2000 fonts and includes
a book that shows what fonts are available. This turns out to be a PHOTOCOPY
of Fantazia Fonts book (with their name whited out) and a direct copy of thier
compilation of 2000 fonts...... 
 There is also a burgeoning business in asia of copies of popular cd's being 
copied and sold back to the States (and Canada). This also includes music 
cd's. Now of course if you don't have to go to the trouble of collecting the 
software or creating the game, etc then you can sell the cd for a lot less
than a legitimate distributor, but.......
"Let's be careful out there"
:-#)#