Bill, at 07:22 on Apr 03 1996, you wrote to me ...

PE>> I got woken up this morning at 10.30am by someone from 
PE>> Modemware, telling me that the USR Couriers were in at 
PE>> last.  The sysop price is still $675 though.  That's a $250
PE>>  premium.  Unless I buy my modem from out-of-state.  A 
PE>> massive amount of money! 

DD>> They arrived in Brisbane last night (1 April).  The RRP has 
DD>> gone up to $799.00  I will be picking up two for work 
DD>> today.

BG> Jesus!  That's pretty disgusting.  Knowing what Mike makes 
BG> on these, did you ask him for some sort of a discount?

There is some sort of price war with the "official importers" in
Melbourne.  He says his buy price took a "bit of a jump".  We did
get them somewhat below $799.00

He feels that there will be a parallel importer within a couple of months
with a resultant $50 to $100 price drop.

DD>> We find the 33,600 link between Brisbane and Cairns just 
DD>> dandy :-)

BG> I'm sure you do, but it's going to take quite a while to 
BG> recover the extra $300 by way of reduced on-line charges (if 
BG> at all).  :)

20 to 30 minutes online time per day, during business hours, 5 days a week,
between Brisbane and Cairns adds up.

David
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