Author: Herbert Gindl
Date: 12:04:54 10/29/98
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There is only one explanation: Rebel10 does not sell as expected. Ed is wrong with his strategy to forbid testing of Rebel10. For me the elimination of the autoplayer is the mainreason why I will not upgrade to Rebel10. The whole issue reminds me of kindergarten! On October 29, 1998 at 14:37:04, Bert Seifriz wrote: >On October 29, 1998 at 12:58:23, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>You have to imagine from Ed's point of view also. Look at a box for >>chessmaster. My CM5500 CD says "4 million sold" on it. > >This was questioned here many times. It refers to all versions >of Chessmaster and nobody knows if the number is just a plain lie! > > > That's because it is >>cheap as dirt to buy. Supply and demand is a differential equation, whereby you >>want to maximize profit by the product of the number sold times their price. >> >>Sometimes you can make more money by lowering the price. Let's see: >>4,000,000 * $45 = $180,000,000. >>Not a bad little sum. >> > >No, but your calculation is a dream. Do you think if Rebel costs 1 buck >you will sell 4 million? Never. Rather people think it is trash >and buy nothing. >To slash a price by half 2 weeks after its release is suicide! > >Bert
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