[Am-info] Best Buy drops Mac titles?

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Paul Rickard on 1/2/00 7:48 PM ---

>     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)

If he'd checked his computer, he'd have probably found the other colors 
available as special orders. Or maybe not; I'm really not sure what 
Apple's policy is now. But the fact is, the policy a year ago was that 
retailers would take all five colors, which they all did, except for Best 
Buy. Sears isn't the most wonderful venue for any manufacturer IMO, and 
I'm frankly amazed that the iMac has done as well as it has at there.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net