Wow! C-USA's first commercial.

[Darrin]

Argo, argo, argo.... WHeeeeeee

Hey Frank, what's up with this?

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[Darrin]

Bout the commercial, all it proves is that either Barry or one of his partners is prepared to burn major $$$ on this adventure. WalMart or suchlike buying them in bulk also means very little cos they will simply send them back if they can't move the stock fast enough.

If Walmart sell them then it better had be cheap.  Expensive overpriced items need to go on sale at Best Buy (or similar) where they do "store credit" agreements.

Walmart PCs start off at around $299 and 99.999% of the customers are just looking at the price, not the specs.

[Darrin]

Our prices are clearly indicated on our site. I called darrin a liar; he is, and it has not been proven otherwise. Simply ask him to post a pic of his "Vic Slim", and a copy of his invoice. he can't, so he won't. The end.

Where did I claim to have an invoice?

The VIC was an easy find by typing "Zero Footprint PC" into Google.  I never mentioned the "slim", but someone else posted a link to another site selling them.

Get your facts right Barry-boy.

Never mind though, I'll send off an email to someone in China and ask if they can track down the manufacture and find a unit cost over there.  Might be interesting...

[Darrin]

The Vic Pro is a customize case (externally and internally) for C=USA, just like how A-EON has a customized case for their A1X1K.  We can go into what other people's parts go into a system if you want.  Vic slim, I don't know much about so it might be a white label product.  

From where I am from, the law says the accuser has to show the proof.  

I'd say its up to you to prove it then.  Buy the product, buy what you think is it's original system at whatever price you find it at and then open the two cases up and show us the proof, part's model number for part's model number.  Till then, you are just doing a hit and run job on Barry.

LOL.  I can see it now:

2 identical looking machines, except one has a Commodore sticker on it and costs $300 more.  The machines are opened up and everyone says "ooh, the cheap no-brand one is exactly the same" and Dammy protests "no it isn't, it has a Western Digital hard drive and we use a Toshiba!  It isn't apples with apples!"

[Darrin]

Is this proof enough for you?

Oh!  Nice prices and they're not even empty cases!

Considering that actual VIC "fat" model has been on sale since 2003 (according to some ads I've found), the cost per case must be really low by now.  It makes you wonder if someone picked up a few thousand of them in a liquidation sale.

One of the advantages of having worked on the mainland in China is that you get your eyes opened to what items we take for granted really cost to maufacture.

For instance, you can buy almost exact replica Rolex watches at RETAIL in China complete with box and (forged) certificate of authenticity from $15 up (probably less is you haggle).  I got one for a laugh and many years later the damn thing still works!

I also picked up a knock-off set of "Big Bertha II" Calloway golf clubs complete with travel bag for a whopping $180, again at RETAIL.

Imagine what the warehouse prices are or even the actual manufacturing costs!

That said, I'm a businessman too and in all fairness you have to mark products up to make money.  Especially when you claim to have spent $30,000,000 on "advertising".

That means that if you sell 1000 units then you'll need to add an extra $30,000 on average to each product's price to cover that.  Taking that into consideration, I guess these Commodore prices are very fair.  

[Darrin]

What licenses? What testing? What customer support? I don't see any mention of customer support on CUSA's website.

Every computer sold has Barry's phone number attached to a sticky lable pasted on the bottom.

Unfortunately if you call it then Barry justs insults you, tells you that he knows where you live from your product registration form and threatens to "kick your ass" if you don't bugger off.  Well actually, he invites you to return your product to him in Florida in person because he's not going to actually travel to see you (or even kick your ass as his poor limp wrists might snap).