Amiga Inc note to dealers

[redfox]

:shrug:
For now, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the show.
:popcorn:

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redfox

[Kronos]

@GGS

Basicly he wants us to believe that selling NOS-A1200 generated more than 75.000 per month (hmm how much would the dealer-price for a Magic-A1200 be ? And how many has one to sell to reach such numbers ?), and that someone (clearly hinting at Petro) sold the whole lot for 75000.

Not a very plausible story ....

[GGS]

number6,

Okidok ! No problem.

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On another note, we have had a very strange request about sales that occurred from 1996 through 2000 regarding Amiga computers. Now I understand based on the documentation that we have here that the machines were purchased primarily from Petro at Amiga International.

What I need to know is how many of you would still have copies of invoices or other documentation that shows you purchasing this hardware and any all possible advertisements or promotional materials that you may have received at this time. We seem to have an issue with regard to the actual facts that machines were purchased during those years, and we are limited in the materials that we have here for those years. If you have any information or documents that meet this criteria then please let me know as soon as possible.

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"We have a situation creating an Amiga museum, with a lot of hardware that was ours that we owned that was in Germany. We went to go get it. The warehouse was empty. Pallets and pallets of our product had been stolen. Now, we know who has it, we're not gonna... that's... we're not here to point fingers or names or let people know, we even know where it is."

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Think of my surprise when I learned that all of our inventory was sold for $75,000.00 to a company in India, when we were generating more than that on a monthly basis.

If all of the inventory was stolen there was perhaps no invoice created ?

[CodeSmith]

The thing is, what are you going to do with a few hundred A1200s other than sell them?  Seeing all those old invoices will give them a good idea of who all the dealers were at the time, and maybe figure out who ended up buying the stolen ones (if company X only bought 10 A1200s from Petro and Amiga Inc have discovered they sold 100 to the public, where did the other 90 come from?)

[Doobrey]

@cgutjahr

Here's another theory:

They recently (re)registered the Amiga Trademarks in various places, using an old Commodore modem (!) to prove that they're actually distributing products using the "Amiga" marks.

Perhaps somebody is questioning that they're entitled to own these trademarks.

That could well be part of it.
Why else would they be asking dealers for "possible advertisements or promotional materials ", and proof that machines were sold during that era if it wasn't for asserting ownership of a trademark ?
 It'd also explain why Amiga Inc have suddenly made themselves look  active over the last few weeks with the 'please ask me 20 questions' and the 'pre-announcement of a forthcoming announcement'
 :popcorn:

[GGS]

CodeSmith,

Sounds as very complicated.

If all of the inventory was sold to a company in India there was perhaps an invoice created ?

[B00tDisk]

My A1 is the fastest and more stable Amiga i ever had.

Yeah?

How's the DMA?  How about USB?  Onboard sound?  Underclocking your CPU?

[Troels_E]

Petro got hand of atleast ALL of the museum computers and they where  showcased somewhere in Europe by Genesi at some point, this is years back and I don't remember much about the other warehouse stock.

Clearly Amiga wants to know what actually happened to this stock and sue whoever stole it. I think Petro might be in trouble!

Have to check my email and ANN
(if thats still up?) to find the dates.

[GGS]

Kronos,

Let's see if we can get this straight ?

They thought they bought a warehouse filled up with goods.

When they later on went to the warehouse they found it to be empty. They then heard all of the inventory either was stolen or was sold to a company in India.

In despite of which they do not have any invoices.

That must be germans to deal with... :-o

[Kronos]

@GGS

You made one fatal error:

Trying to make any sense out of a McBill-statement ....

[Fud]

Real pleased w/the newly redesigned Amiga Inc. website as it was a pain even w/broadband to load last time I tried.
Under "News" it mentions the new computers from ACK Software Controls, Inc.

[Fud]

Real pleased w/the newly redesigned Amiga Inc. website as it was a pain even w/broadband to load last time I tried.
Under "News" it mentions the new computers from ACK Software Controls, Inc.

[GGS]

Kronos,

Well, I consider this news-item to be some kind of joke from Wayne.

[alx]

Well, I consider this news-item to be some kind of joke from Wayne.

Adam from ACK has posted on the thread over at AW.net and hasn't claimed it's untrue (besides, the real surprise was the earlier announcement of these systems - this email just follows on logically from that).  I certainly cannot imagine Wayne adding something like this as a joke - if it is a joke, it'd be Amiga Inc having us on...

[TheMagicM]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Markus_Bieler]

Clearly Amiga wants to know what actually happened to this stock and sue whoever stole it. I think Petro might be in trouble!

If the stock was really stolen, then why A-Inc didn't asked for the goods the time they realized the "crime"? I don't think they are after this stock. (It would be at least six years too late :-D )

A-Inc just needs some proves, that they made some money the last years with the brand AMIGA

They just forgot to save some documents before shuting down the German "Amiga International"

I think that they need more proves that they own the rights on OS3.1 and therefore also on OS 3.5/OS3.9 as these are based on kickstart 3.1

But without Bill telling us why he needs these documents we are only speculating about the reasons.

Markus