Microsoft Corp. As it was, 47th Street Photo was one of Microsoft's most influential customers and already received the favorable attention its massive sales warranted from the software company's executives. As a frontline rep, the most I had to offer was yet another presentation of cool Excel macros. A lot has changed in the years since. And like many of the prominent dealers of the time, a few years ago, 47th Street ceased operation. More important, buyers of computer products today don't require inside connections of any sort to garner great prices.
Exceptional values are everywhere, readily available to all.
A main reason you don't have to look hard for good deals is that PCs and related products just aren't the pricey purchases they once were. Included in the price, however, was a whopping 65MB hard drive and a monochrome monitor. I don't want to insult my readers' intelligence by detailing what that kind of money buys today. Suffice it to say, for that price you'll get a system with incomparable advanced features and easily a second PC just like it. What you might not appreciate, as a consumer of these constantly enhanced PC products, is the business of profit margins.