On 23/03/2006, at 11:49 AM, Ryan Sabir wrote: > > Heya Robin, thanks for the reply > >> >>> Box Product sells for $1970 inc gst from the Adobe store >> >> You had $1970 from the Adobe Store (Maybe that was a US price >> - but I also understand there was some sort of stuff up in > > I've just gone to the Australian store here: > http://www.macromedia.com/go/ols_au > > And its quoting me $1970. It lets me go all the way to checkout > with this price. If that’s a stuff up then someone better fix it > quick or there'll be a lot of happy buyers around.
Go for it - I think it's temporary, I heard something about a pricing problem during the pre-merger "black box" period and Adobe are aware of it. >> Unlike the old Macromedia MVLP program the TLP program is >> transactional, so the more you purchase at a time the more >> opportunity you have to move into a higher level for that >> sale. You are eligible for volume license with just one > > Does 'you' in this case mean 'me' or 'my client'. If I am > purchasing CF for my client to be installed on their server do I > count up the number of Adobe products they own? What if I buy 10 > copies for 10 different clients, will I get a volume discount? No. When you buy licenses the end user name has to be specified, so Mr Reseller can't buy ten copies to distribute among multiple clients. >> To purchase the media for an ESD (Electronic software >> delivery - i.e. >> license) purchase of CF7 $40.00 (RRP $47.61) To purchase >> media that is NOT for ESD purchase $145.95 >> > > Why would you pay $40 for ESD, when you can download the trial for > free, and put the serial number into it? Indeed - but some people like having the CD for asset management, spare beer coasters or other reasons. >>> 2yr Maintenence costs $1050 >> >> To purchase 2 year maintenance $883.70 > > Ok, we were quoted something different from our distributor. Will > chase this up. > > Basically, there are a lot of changes that have come into play > during the merger. It seems that Adobe is trying to make it less > profitable to be a reseller of their products. I wouldn't turn this into a conspiracy theory - there is some sort of problem with the online store but I know it's being worked on. > Admitedly the cost of the server software is not a huge part of the > income from a project, but it used to be a nice value add that we > could offer our clients. I don’t remember there being any official > statement from Macromedia to their partners warning us that the > whole licensing structure was going to change this significantly. Apparently MVLP customers got emails about TLP. The solutions/hosting/ training partner program is not really the vehicle for licensing related info to go out through - IMHO that should come through distributors to resellers. > And Robin, I know you don’t speak for Adobe here so I'm not > complaining at you personally. But its been pretty difficult to get > straight answers from either Adobe, or our distributors. Nick Hodge is the channel manager at Adobe Australia, have you been talking to him? We're getting pretty good support ourselves, like any licensing program resellers need to do their homework but overall it's a better system than the old MVLP. Cheers, Robin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
