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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #44 on: January 11, 2013, 04:46:45 AM »
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It's funny because when the article first appeared I sent the author a tweet showing the original case. His response was to call me a troll and I didn't know what I was talking about with fake products. I then sent him a set of links to Barry gems on here and Amiga world and never got a reply.


He called you a troll???  Strewth!  I wouldn't be surprised if the author had been "bought and paid for".  I should have sent someone higher up with C-Net an email and suggested that their author was possibly participating in a scam in exchange for money... or just completely useless at his job.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #45 on: January 12, 2013, 04:50:31 AM »
Jason Perlow is supposed to be one of the top 100 tech experts on Twitter if your to believe what wiki says.

Still sitting back with a tub of popcorn watching the spectacle.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #46 on: January 12, 2013, 01:44:18 PM »
So what happened to all the C=USA fellow travellers who used to post here?  I think of Red who really seemed taken in by the huckster.  Do you think they'll return home to us now that modor has fallen?
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #47 on: January 12, 2013, 01:49:28 PM »
Big Ben Aussie just popped up to say they have just halted sales temporarily and watch for an announcement.  Maybe they're at CES shopping for a clue?
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #48 on: January 12, 2013, 09:19:43 PM »
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Big Ben Aussie just popped up to say they have just halted sales temporarily and watch for an announcement.  Maybe they're at CES shopping for a clue?


Another announcement!  I can't wait.  Perhaps they've copied The Daddy's case and had someone in China run off a few.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2013, 01:17:04 AM »
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So what happened to all the C=USA fellow travellers who used to post here?  I think of Red who really seemed taken in by the huckster.  Do you think they'll return home to us now that modor has fallen?


I think poor Jim was already getting fed up with the community and falling for Barry's BS was probably the last straw for him.  It's a real shame because he was one guy I really liked and trusted.  I bought a bunch of "real" Amiga and Commodore stuff off him.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #50 on: January 14, 2013, 03:59:07 AM »
"Yeah, um, we just took Christmas off because everyone else does, it's not like anyone buys anything that time of year."
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #51 on: January 14, 2013, 02:19:13 PM »
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"Yeah, um, we just took Christmas off because everyone else does, it's not like anyone buys anything that time of year."


ROTFLMA!

If Xmas sales couldn't help them then they're really buggered.

One thing I'll be interested in, once this is all over, is whther "certain parties" were just used as pawns to mislead us, or whether they knew about the lies all along and did it deliberately.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2013, 04:26:41 PM »
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Big Ben Aussie just popped up to say they have just halted sales temporarily and watch for an announcement.  Maybe they're at CES shopping for a clue?


Maybe this is the groundbreaking major announcement they were saying was coming a year ago?
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2013, 05:12:54 PM »
Doubt it Optimus. I can't see why they would halt sales if it was a simple case of getting a new ip or new products. They are playing damage limitation and I feel something major has gone wrong. Or at the very least something serious enough that it means they can't sell their only viable products.

Even if they were moving production facilities I can't see why there would be this break in sales. It all seems to fishy.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #54 on: January 14, 2013, 05:30:50 PM »
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Doubt it Optimus. I can't see why they would halt sales if it was a simple case of getting a new ip or new products. They are playing damage limitation and I feel something major has gone wrong. Or at the very least something serious enough that it means they can't sell their only viable products.

Even if they were moving production facilities I can't see why there would be this break in sales. It all seems to fishy.


Something major went wrong the moment they were advertising the C64x in Tron DVDs and didn't actually have a product to ship.  :)

I think we're likely to see one last desperate offer for "partnerships" to dump any existing stock, or perhaps some feeble effort to rebadge some sort of tablet as yet another "Amiga".
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #55 on: January 14, 2013, 09:53:54 PM »
I wonder how much money they are bleeding in rent for office space, worker pay and other things while this is going on.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #56 on: January 15, 2013, 01:43:07 AM »
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I wonder how much money they are bleeding in rent for office space, worker pay and other things while this is going on.


Say $1000 a month for the office, next to nothing for staff as they don't have any worth mentioning, a low six figure salary for Ben...

It is obviously running at a massive loss, but as I've said before, it is still a tax write-off at the moment.  Time is running out though.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #57 on: January 16, 2013, 12:50:14 AM »
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It is obviously running at a massive loss, but as I've said before, it is still a tax write-off at the moment. Time is running out though.

How long could they realistically leave it before it can't be a tax write-off?
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #58 on: January 16, 2013, 07:11:45 AM »
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #59 from previous page: January 16, 2013, 07:30:38 AM »
They have sold 1 c6x in the entire time they have been on amazon, about the same time they announced the Mio.
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