If you start reading automobile magazines 6-12 months before you intend to buy a car, you will usually know if another car is coming along to replace the current model well in advance, and often you'll see ads that say "coming to your...dealer on Oct 1st." In fact, your... dealer will be holding "end of year clearance" sales on the old model long before the new one is set to arrive.
Sales promotions are another thing. It's entirely possible to miss a sale (rebates, zero-percent financing, etc.) because you bought a few weeks too early. But you usually get a sporting chance at avoiding that by keeping an eye on the industry sales figures for the current month to help you guess whether the salespeople will be more or less hungry next month. Something you can't do for SW if sales figures are not publicly disclosed. If I paid $899 for one SW product and then discovered that if I'd waited a month or two I could have had a V8, er more SW, for $99 more, I'd be miffed. One way to reduce the chances of it happening is to never buy a new SW product terribly soon after it comes out. With Adobe and MS products, I usually don't touch them until I see at least the second service release come out. After my experience with an ongoing bug in Acrobat 7, I decided to only buy new Adobe SW during that period at the end of the product's lifecycle when they say "buy now and get a free upgrade to our upcoming new version." Gene Kim-Eng ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Swallow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [TCP] Upgrade Anger to Tech Comm Suite. > But do you need the suite, or are you just miffed that something new > came out soon after you bought what you bought? > > The Civic Si sedan started appearing at dealers 6 weeks after I bought > my Civic Ex sedan. I was a bit miffed, but at the time I really needed > a car, so I bought what I bought. ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. Interactive 3D Documentation Parts catalogs, animated instructions, and more. www.i3deverywhere.com _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
