I think the product is worth much more than that.
Not to try to make people pay more, but if I were you I would determine the
price based on who is buying it.
Something like this from us could anywhere from 7k to 15k depending on the
client. If Marriot came to us and wanted a Hotel booking system we would
charge them much more than 10k just because of the amount of money they
stand to make on the product. I could see us charging hotels six figures
just because they could make millions.
Just as long as you don't do what Macromedia did to flash generator, At
least $30,000 per web site per server.
I think you created a good product that seems to be easily customizable and
could make many people a lot money.
At 10:09 PM 9/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>You know you're right and it wasn't my first decision to sell it for $5,000
>I consulted someone else. So in light of this discussion I will now have the
>same deal all source codes, SQL scripts, tech support and updates for a year
>now only for $500. I have not and would not want to pay too much for an
>application and I hope $500 is a more fair price with everyone. Thanks for
>the feedback from the forum.
>
>
>Bob Everland
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:09 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
>That is a fair comment to make, and I can say that the experince is the same
>here. I do contract work for companies who require my services, and the code
>I use always is written from scratch, for legal reasons. But because I have
>done it once before or even twice before I find that I can complete it
>faster the next time I need to do it, not to mention its always better the
>next time around as well.
>
>However without getting into any legal issues, I can look at something and
>see how its written without looking at the code. This makes me unique in a
>way I guess, because I find that it saves me a lot of trouble buying things
>when I can write the code from what I see on the screen in terms of
>functionality.
>
>So that it why I made the origianl comment, I have been programming now for
>20 years, and in this time I have seen MANY shareware or modules like this
>one where I belive the price to be too high, only because I know the that
>the cost it would take me to do it would be far less, it would also work the
>way I want it to work and I would also have the source code to play with as
>well and could make the changes etc without the support of a 3rd person.
>
>We now live a world that is connected by wires, geographic location and
>expereince don't really come into the picture. If I had the time, I could
>clean up my code to be released just as this person did and have it sell for
>$1000 (Aus) which is about $500 (us) we will always be competing on a world
>scale, so just because it took someone 1 hour or 20 hours is not an issue,
>demand is not an issue but being competative is.
>
>All I am saying is that when marketing something, look at Microsoft for
>instance. If MS was to sell the Windows products nobody could afford them,
>because the R&D into developing these would be too high and nobody would buy
>the product. Good marketing is knowing how to sell your product, and not get
>a quick buck out of it.
>
>I mean would you buy an application written in Coldfusion that cost more
>than CF itself, I know I wouldn't and would prefer to program it myself. I
>just wanted to point out that it may have taken 20-100 hours to develop but
>there are applications out there that took maybe 50 times longer with 1000
>times more functionality for less than the price of this application. People
>tend to foget this when setting a price for their products:-)
>
>Anyway thats all I need to say on this subject.
>
>
>
>regards
>
>Andrew Scott
>ANZ eCommerce Centre
>* Ph 9273 0693
>* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregory Gooden (Annex) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 12 September 2000 12:45
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
>
>An interesting thread...
>
>The truth is, a single defined application can take one person 1 hour to
>accomplish, and another one 20 hours to accomplish, and the rates that each
>person charges will vary by geography, demand, confidence in price
>sensitivity, etc.
>
>Amazingly enough, there is no way to determine whether the 1 hour job will
>be better or worse than the 20 hour job, and price doesn't always correlate
>with quality.
>
>A friend of mine once shared the following cool goodie with me;
>
>"Pick any two: good, fast, cheap"
>
>Implying that you could NEVER get all three. Over the years, I've discovered
>that to be a true-ism for the most part (there are exceptions), both in what
>my company can produce, and what I can get from vendors or employees.
>
>When bidding on a job, we've had people say, "but so and so said he can do
>it for less", and I welcome them to try it.. Sometimes it works and
>sometimes it doesn't.. Development companies (with higher overhead) tend to
>charge more, but you get more too.. You get a stable company (hopefully!)
>that will be around to support the product, make suggestions that make sense
>because they have a large brainpool to feed off of, and also a company that
>has a higher ability to be responsible for when things go wrong (and
>sometimes things go wrong)..
>
>My two cents (maybe your 10.00.. ).. grin..
>
>Gregory
>
>-------------------------------------------
>annex.com, Inc. - http://www.annex.com/
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 6:39 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
> >
> >
> > Touchy, touchy, touchy.....
> >
> > Look I guessed the hours it took, I wrote something similar
> > many years ago
> > for a resort here in Australia that had more functionality
> > than what I have
> > seen so far, came with a complete wizard for bookings etc.
> > Mind you I have
> > only had a quick look, but I guess the support and updates
> > would bring the
> > price in line. Maybe you should have mentioned this in your
> > first email,
> > rather than for people to try and guess these things.
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Andrew Scott
> > ANZ eCommerce Centre
> > * Ph 9273 0693
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 12 September 2000 12:16
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
> >
> >
> > Well instead of writing and saying that, write your own then.
> > As a matter of
> > fact it did take longer than that, there has been a lot of
> > feedback from
> > hotels who beta tested it. Of course at the end I said it is
> > negotiable,
> > $5000 include full source code, SQL scrips, 1 year tech
> > support and updates.
> > But hey you're welcome to do what you want on your own time,
> > just don't
> > think you need to knock people on the list if you don't agree
> > with what they
> > charge. Maybe I will find out in a couple weeks people don't
> > want to pay
> > that much and I'll cut the price, don't need to be insulted
> > on this forum
> > though.
> >
> >
> > Bob Everland
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:16 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
> >
> >
> > I assume that the price is $5000 (US), I see about 2 days
> > worth of work in
> > this system and don't see why it should cost $5000 (US) when
> > it would cost
> > me about $1000 to write myself:-)
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Andrew Scott
> > ANZ eCommerce Centre
> > * Ph 9273 0693
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 12 September 2000 12:00
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Hotel Booking Engine up
> >
> >
> > Anyone who was or is interested in a hotel booking can
> > now view a
> > demo at
> > http://www.reactivevision.com/products . There is an example
> > of a portal
> > site and a singular hotel site. The price is $5000 but is negotiable
> > depending on what kind of configuration you are looking for.
> > This is a new
> > products so feedback is appreciated and fixes and
> > enhancements can be done
> > in a minimal amount of time.
> >
> > Bob Everland
> >
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