RE: Price Increases

I thought Archie Leach was Cary Grant.  Steve Martin was the one who did the
cat juggling.   

So:  

Anyone who can juggle cats successfully can do things heretofore believed to
be impossible.
Getting a million dollars and not paying taxes on it has always been thought
to be impossible.
Steve Martin successfully juggled cats.

I think the "obvious" conclusion makes as much sense as the price increase
to maximize revenue. 

Also, Roger, you didn't go far enough.  Why not raise the price of AS/400s
to start at around $100,000,000,000.  Don't need much volume to make the nut
there.


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Pence [mailto:rp@rogerpence.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 1:26 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Price Increases

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I've got an idea: why doesn't IBM simply raise the price of all 7xx upgrades
to 1 million dollars per upgrade, across the board. To generate 500m in
revenue, they'd only need to get 500 upgrades. That oughta be easy enough. 

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for the puppies amongst you, before Steve Martin was Cary Grant, he was a
stand-up comedian!). Martin's plan for getting a million dollars and not
paying taxes on it: first you get a million dollars, then you don't pay
taxes on it. 
Someone at the AS/400 division got their economics degree from The Steve
Martin College of Modern Economics. 
rp
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