Re: AS/400 System Handbooks

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:08 AM 10/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is anyone else out there as infuriated as I am about the price increase 
>for the AS/400 System Handbooks for V4R3 ?
>
>In Canada the price went from $8.10 to $36.00 !!!   A whopping 444% 
>increase !!!
>
>What is REALLY annoying though is that the internal IBM price dropped 
>from $8.10 to $4.10
>I guess all IBM's customers/consultants/business partners are now 
>subsidising the reduced price for IBM internal use !
>
>Don't they understand that for the most part the System Handbook is 
>used to MARKET the AS/400 ?
>What kind of message does this price increase send out ?   Is this some 
>bean counters idea ?
>
>I'll have to ask Al if I can use the word "SUCKS" to describe the new 
>pricing at COMMON Sound Off next week.
>
My Soundoff remarks are in draft #5, and at this point of time, the
"absorption" word has not been included.  There's always hope!  On the
other hand, if I mention price, I'd probably get brought up in front of JAC
or something.

Al




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