This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that comment offensive and it is not intended to be.
For ANY product - even Free ones - there are people who will feel that the "value" for the "cost" (whether that cost is money, time, whatever) is not what it "should be". The higher the cost, the more people will fall into this group. For every organization delivering a product, that organization has to make the product's cost vs value work for THEM. If they charge too little, they go out of business. If they charge too much, no one buys it. If they favor one market segment with huge discounts while others pay a fortune, they piss off the segment paying the fortune or do not make enough revenue due to the huge discounts Organizations making products, unless they are complete idiots (and hence would be out of business quickly), look at all their feedback. If the are not pricing something a certain way, it because that way doesn't work for them. Potential customer can (1) not buy anything; (2) find the money to buy it, possibly waiting for a "sale"; or (3) waste time and effort uselessly rehashing discussions that have long since taken place (new people to lists are excused since they may never have seen prior discussions). We make a niche product for researchers, primary academic researchers. We have separate pricing tiers for commercial users (retail price), government users (a discount), educational institutions (a bigger discount) and a special price for students (80% discount). I know we loose sales because some students think our student price is still too high and we loose some sales because our commercial users think they pay too much compared to others. We price our products after careful review of our markets, our competition's pricing, and what we need to do to not loose money, but make a dollar or two. We have never lost a sale to anyone who needed a better price who contacted us in private email to ask for a better price, but we've never responded to public comments for revisions to our pricing because pricing is complex and should never be driven by arguments on a email list or forum. Again, I don't mean to be offensive, but it just seems like people's time would be better spend either contacting LiveCode private to try to negotiate a price point for some need of theirs or spend the time coding or learning a new xTalk feature or anything but arguing about pricing and licensing yet again. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
