Joe Sapienza wrote:
Are you on some sort of medication? Who the hell said anything about race,
religion or any of the rest of it? Chill out already.
Bob
Yeah I couldn't find that reference either, musta gone ove my pointed head
He's talking about discrimination. What he means is no two people pay
the same for Protel. Depending on who your salesperson is, how desperate
they are to fill their quota for the month or whatever, depending on what software
you are using now, depending on how loudly you complain, or something like
that, you get more discounts applied to your purchase price.
I found this out a while ago, when one of the salespeople called up and was urging
me to upgrade. Totally by accident, I mentioned some kind of magic word, something
like "well, that is an awful lot of money, and I'm not sure what the benefits of the
new version are....." and suddenly, we weren't on the list price page anymore, we had
shifted onto the discount page. This was all many years ago, before Altium, so I
have no idea whether they still work this way anymore. But, I got the idea the whole
thing was like the Turkish bazaar or something, where you were expected to haggle
hard, counter every offer, and compare the merchandise to something else, as if you
really had second thoughts about spending any money there.
It was kind of a wierd experience, unlike the way most commercial software is sold.
Jon
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