At 09:07 AM 2/8/2001 -0800, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
Samy Elashmawy wrote:
How meny boxes at $79.99 do you expect a typical non comercial user to buy a year at M$ type pricing. At $29.99 I have no problem buming up at each dot version , but at $79.00 I will realy look closely at the product. If I
That is no wonder when they are air shipping the product when they cna down load or air mail a master and pressw the cds here. That just plian bad busines decision. Not even microsoft hits you for three to four updates at $79.99. At that price I will look very closely to see weather or not to upgrade. I may just decide to upgrade a few packages or so as it is with three to four revisions per year. I would rather spend that money on tech suport or hardware. I havent had any rave reviews form there tech suport that I have used. I have found this list to bemore detialed and in genereal a great learning tool.
You're wrong right from the start - we didn't sell a single box less with the new pricing, which is JUSTIFIED anyway. Slashing the price to $3 won't get us even 20% more sales (but a huge loss per box).