David Wei wrote in a message to Russ Wuertz:
 RW> What the difference is between the big leagues and selling for
 RW> 1000 or  just 300 is the service that is privided.  Xerox type 
 RW> service of only a 3 hour wait makes machines tripple in 
 RW> value, because... because they WORK and do the job that 
 RW> they were sold to do!
 DW>  Yeah, yeah, yeah... and next you are gonna sell us a machine like
 DW> that, eh?  No thank you... with that $1000... I'd use $300 for
 DW> EPSON's Stylus Color  series printer, $300 for Courier (whatever
 DW> the price is now) and save  the rest when I can accumliate enough
 DW> to get a decent desktop flatbed  scanner... and I can transmit and
 DW> receive better than that machine, print  better than that
 DW> machine... and the scanner when bought, will do a LOT  better for a
 DW> couple hundred dollars more...
And let us not forget, that if the scanner has problems, you can still fax, 
modem and print while the scanner is in the shop.  One friend of mine 
purchased a modem/fax/voice mail/printer/scanner combo for his home office. 
When the printer decided to have problems, he was running around frantically 
borrowing bits and pieces to keep himself in business until it was repaired. 
He's since decided that the convenience of a single telephone plug and a 
single AC line plug is not worth the trouble and now has a voice/fax/modem 
plus a printer and a scanner.
Regards,
       David
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