The Best Things Come In Small Packages

[giZmo350]

CUSA needs to STOP trying to use the ppl of this forum as marketing strategists and STOP insulting the intelligence A.O. users! CUSA seems to be a real :mickeymouse: operation!

[giZmo350]

Just send him this back:
 
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/amiga-mini-high-end-pc-wants-to-relive-commodore-glory-days-50007414/
 

Well already I'm NOT liking this person Natasha Lomas alot! LAMOS! :furious:
 
But, this would be funny! "Apple's lawyers are presumably getting ready to fire forth a barrage of cease-and-desist letters claiming it patented smallness." :lol:
 
At any rate..... nice find Darrin!
 
BTW, anyone elso spot Franko's post?
 
"
anonymous 22 March, 2012 22:32

Finally... :-)

A site that actually dares speak the truth about this whole grave robbing scam that is CUSA and their fake non Amiga products... thank you... :-)

Been an Amiga user for 26 years and still use them everyday, CUSA and Barry Altman it's owner & CEO have been spamming the Amiga forums for two years now insulting folk and along with his CTO Leo Nigro telling us "We better like it or else"... WTF !!!

Nice to see someone finally say it like it is and point out that CUSA have sod all to to with the original & real Commodore or the original and real Amiga... :-)

These products are nothing more than off the shelf PC parts, in a case you can purchase from Bay, running a free Amiga emulator under a free OS (Linux) that CUSA try to pass of as a new Amiga OS they call "Vision" (all overpriced of course)... ;-)"

[giZmo350]

Yep, all liability is on the dealers.
 
I wonder how exchanges will work for DOA machines. Dealer sends computer to customer, customer's computer dies, customer sends computer back, dealer sends computer back to C=USA... months go by... customer gets a lawyer and sends nasty letters to dealer, dealer sends desperate emails to C=USA, lawyer sets court date for dealer, C=USA ceases trading, dealer goes to court and loses.

I'm a DEALER!!! I would never have anything to do with a company like this! EVER! I would lose my A$$ inside of 6 months!

[giZmo350]

You're forgetting the CUSA tax. There's no way CUSA will let you make computers under the Commodore name without your giving him a hefty chunk of your profit. To cope with that chunk, you'll have to put your prices up so high that you wouldn't be able to compete.
CUSA seem to think that people will buy a PC at a higher price because it has the name "Amiga"... or are they just trying to convince the "resellers" of that?
 
If you go near this scheme, you WILL lose money, it's as simple as that.

Exactly! My margins are so low 'cause I'm lucky if I can sell a loaded i3 for $400 and that's WITH Win 7! I already sell ASUS i3 laptops for $400! Imagine trying to sell something WAY overpriced in some goofy looking case. Peeps are so poor these days they come in with Win 98 machines asking me if I can put WinXP on them and get them running again expecting to pay something like $50! (I refuse to pirate Win keys)! The Amiga community is actually much smaller than one might imagine - why do you think CUSA continually bothers the peeps on Amiga forums to part with their hard earned cash?! I'm sure CUSA genuinly thought they could sell the C= and Amiga names on PC's - BAD business decision! Barry should just cut his losses or partner with someone that can actually recreate a real C= / Amiga experience - and that would only be AROS or MorphOS! The REAL Amiga market is locked up by Hyperion - period. The only thing Barry has is the legal right to use the C= and Amiga names. Not much of a business model.

[giZmo350]

Don't these yo-yos know that the Big Boys all make their own "C=USA Amiga"-like cases already and have done for years?
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1422092&CatId=1307
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1939178&CatId=4928
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1494915&CatId=4929
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=685765&CatId=333
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1976954&CatId=5139
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7122667&CatId=5139
 
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1926940&CatId=5139
 
I could go on forever, but I think that's enough...

Yup! I grossed a 1/4 million on PC/Laptop sales alone last year and I buy most everything from Tiger, NewEgg or CDW when it's on sale and mark it up to non-sale prices. Their (CDW) margines are around 1%! I'm an authorized Lenovo, Acer, Asus, MSI, HP (JUNK!), Dell & Sony dealer.... when I complaing to my reps about prices being near retail for dealers they just tell me to go to CDW! Anyone can do this! The trick in my case is I have a STORE FRONT where peeps can come in and ask questions and get simple help! I prep the computers for free! Ppl love it! Of course I make most my $$$ on the repairs though. It's long hours and no free time and I'm the only employee but I get the feeling Barry is way working WAY TOO HARD for little return! I make a house payment, pay the store rent, pay the bills for two places, plus Ins.. alarm.. internet... (you get the idea)... plus give the wifey about 4Gs a month & STILL buy my REAL Miggy stuff! Good Times! Oh, and the support is on the MANUFACTURER not me! Of course I help them box it up and send it in if needed (I've only had to do that twice in 5 years).... just don't sell peeps junk! Hell, 30 years ago I used to buy PC Clones from a little place in Texas call Treasure Chest Computer (cause they put together excellent machines at the time with cheap software extras even though they were higher priced than other mail order places) and resell them +10%! I would charge peeps $100 to spend a few hours teaching them how to use them and make 4 or 5 bills a week spare change! You know.... CUSA would make 100 times more money if they DROPPED the Amiga and C= name and came up with their own name and just stuck to great customer service!!! Ahhh, (and some of you honed right in on this) CUSA CAN'T support what they sell 'cause they are the end buyer! Asking for people to be their "dealers" to resell their stuff, and the possible defective parts + any bad computer build decisions for their end product is the "dealers" problem is... well, bad business. The "CUSA DEALER" would have no way to recoup any losses. Sheeeeeeeeesh! I gotta get off this!!!! Cheears Ya'll!!! Oh, and one more thing... [discalimer on] this is just all my own opinion [/disclaimer off]