Re: Buying Palm Pilot Through Sun?

[Mike Szelong -District Manager <michael.szelong@West>]

Talked to Fry's about their pricing when we did a bulk buy of 18 units
from the Palo Alto store.  The quoted price to Sun ($379) exceeded what
I could get in the Sunnyvale store ($349) walking in off the street. As
it turns out, because they are in competition with the T-Zone across
the street ($349), they offer the Pilot Pro for $349 only in that
Sunnyvale store...

BTW, T-Zone still has them at $348, saw it this weekend.

This has been the best pricing I have seen...

Mike
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:36:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alberto Suzano <Alberto.Suzano@Eng>
> Subject: Re: Buying Palm Pilot Through Sun?
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> T-zone price (@ Lawrence Expressway on front of Fry's) was US$349 for
> the professional edition without extra software (US$10 cheaper than
> Fry's) CompUSA did not match Fry's price because I did not had the
> newspaper showing Fry's price.
> 
> 	AS
> 	
> > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:39:35 -0600
> > From: kurt.horton@Central (Kurt Horton)
> > To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Devon.Tuck@Ebay
> > Subject: Re: Buying Palm Pilot Through Sun?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I learned indirectly that SMI employees get a discount of sorts at
> > CompUSA.  The deal is 12% above cost -- the problem is retail is often
> > less than 12% above cost so it doesn't save much.  Also items less than
> > $20 do not get the discount either.  I simply show my employee ID and
> > make the purchase.
> > 
> > I did save about $30 as I recall buying my Pilot around January -- prices
> > may have changed.
> > 
> >    kurt
> > 
> > > From owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Aug 18 17:22 MDT 1997
> > > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:39:30 -0700
> > > From: Devon.Tuck@Ebay (Devon Tuck)
> > > To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Buying Palm Pilot Through Sun?
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> > > 
> > > Hey Pilot Users,
> > > 
> > > Is there a discount available if we want to buy a Palm Pilot through Sun?
> > > 
> > > I have been researching the Palm Pilot, and am attracted by the fact that
> > > there are Sun utilities to sync up calendars and other data.  I have been
> > > leaning towards buying the Pilot through Franklin-Covey so I can get
> > > their Windows 95 Ascend software for my home machine.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > >   Devon
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