[Am-info] Best Buy drops Mac titles?

[Paul Rickard]

mstone@vc.net

>You can buy any color iMac you like from Sears, and from any other Apple 
>dealer AFAIK, though Sears treats some as special orders. Best Buy could 
>never claim an inability to sell colors other than blue, because they 
>stopped selling the iMac before the multiple colors machines even arrived 
>on the scene. In fact, I could never find an iMac for sale in a BB store 
>even when they were supposedly still selling them, back the last quarter 
>of '98. In any event, Best Buy refused to take multiple color iMacs when 
>all of the other dealers were being required to take all five colors. BB 
>demanded, but did not get, special treatment. 

     The Sears in a mall near here only had 'blueberry' on hand when I 
was shopping around in late June. A floorwalker help guy said they could 
backorder 'strawberry', he had never heard of any other colors. The 
assistant manager came by in a few minutes, and I asked him about it. He 
said they didn't have other colors available, far as he knew, and the 
'strawberry' would take 3 weeks. They had brochures in the store showing 
all five colors, but apparently the Sears employees here in my part of 
Georgia hadnt read them and aren't iMac savvy. They were trying to be 
helpful and were very courteous - I believe they honestly just weren't 
aware there was anything else available. (three weeks ago when I last 
checked, the same store had no iMacs on display, one iBook out and no 
Apple/Mac/USB peripherals on the shelves with the exception of an Epson 
printer with the iMac-looking removable color panels)


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