In the early 90's I ran my own business. My main market was the Amiga and its peripherals, however I still sold and dealt with pc products.
The first day of registering my business and opening up to the public, I had full pc dealership. Everything from motherboards, ram, hds, monitors, etc.
Commodore on the other hand, refused to give me support due to the fact that I was a 'small' store and not a major chain. Therefore I couldn't buy and stock 1200's and 4000's.
Next problem, to get dealership with a distributor for Amiga peripherals such as products from GVP, I had to argue my case with the distributor that I was a serious dealer, as they didn't like giving their products to the little stores.
Once again because I wasn't from a huge department store they wanted up front $$$ in orders etc. It took me 3 months of negotiation to have the opportunity to stock any Amiga products.
Meanwhile I have numerous PC companies throwing their full product support at me, and here I was trying to promote the Amiga, without any support from the idiots who were holding the future of it in their hands.
The big department stores at the time that sold the Amiga, had no idea what it was or how to use it. I witnessed numerous times, people going into these stores asking about the Amiga and the salesman would steer the customer away towards a pc. No wonder they never sold much.
Now this is what I would like you all to consider. If Commodore and the other Amiga distributors had got off their all mightly god-like podium and actually given their full product support to those of us who ran smaller stores and had die hard Amiga staff working for us, maybe we could have actually got out their and put a few more 1000 Amigas in peoples homes.
Once again, it is a rude awakening to just how f#$$ed the people behind it all were at the time. No wonder the pc holds the market, from the early 90's the pc companies were doing the right thing - THEY WERE GETTING THEIR PRODUCT OUT EVERY WAY POSSIBLE!
