----- Original Message -----
From: Gunnar Bagge <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Internet Minimum Requirements


> Steve Moskowitz wrote:
> > the recent announcements of free PC's w/ 3 year access agreements at
> approx $22/month  look like a good value.
>
> "But what most glowing accounts of this "free" AOL PC deal
> missed is that you have to sign up for nearly $800 worth of
> connect time from CompuServe, over three years. The Wall
> Street Journal did the math and figured that the real cost
> to AOL for the connect time and hardware was about $500, so
> AOL is going to make about a $300 profit on every "free" PC
> it manages to foist on the unwary.
>
To look at it another way:  How much will you pay in three years to
connect with a different ISP?  Probably nearly $800 and you won't have a
PC that you paid nothing for and used for three years left at the end of
that time.  How much the ISP makes out of the deal is also irrelevant
since it is the same either way also.  I don't understand this
objection.

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