On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jacques Chester wrote:
> > Three things will kill it:
> > 1) The <cough> strength of the Banana Republic Peseta
>
> Actually, I've looked into this myself. Recall that
> the items you buy locally (IBM, Compaq et al) were
> *also* manufactured overseas, and are *also* being
> jacked up by the weakened dollar. VA are competitive
> once you realise that the dollar does not chose
> according to whom you buy from - it slugs all in the
> field.
Yeah sure but when dealing with local companies the
weak dollar is going to be affecting the wholesale
price, not the retail price so its not going to be
*as* bad, but yeah it will still affect them too.
Benno
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