Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:46:49 10/10/00
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On October 10, 2000 at 17:51:02, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 10, 2000 at 14:32:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>If the package announced by Rebel is going to have four engines as it seems it >>will be the case -Century dos, Century windows for analysis, Tiger classic and >>Gambit- I cannot imagine a better bargain... if the price is kept in the >>vecinity of 40 bucks. Ed? Which will be? Or you will cut the string of our >>purse? > >It seems that Chessmaster has put the bar down to the limbo line. Can we really >crawl under without getting our hair in the dirt? > >If it does Win32 and has improved database functions, I might be willing to pay >$400. How's that for a painful price line? >;-) > >Prices for any product are the answer to a differential eqution involving supply >and demand. Too high a price will alienate customers. Too low a price and you >lose potential profit. The right balance is hard to find. > >Price it however you like Ed/Christophe. You know darn well that like a bunch >of crack heads we'll come straggling over with a fist full of money and wild >eyes begging for what you know we must have. Not me anymore, Dan. I have done that for too many years. In those glorious days I was prepared to cut the throath of my grandmother -well, she was dead anyway- in order to get the money for purchasing a miserable 120 Kb program at 90 bucks, but now, at 51 and in the pinnacle of my career, even if rich enough to purchase at least 1/2 of the company of Mr Ed - Just I order my agent to sell my half a ton in gold lingots in South Africa or else...- nevertheless I will not pay a cent more than, say, 40 bucks. Why? I became an stingy, mean kind of man? No, but enough is enough. As I write this, in my back, in a special furniture, sleep a high stack of CD with chess programs that I scarcely have taken. Not to mention the other furniture full of floppys. Etc. Too much. If I am going to sin again, must be at 40 US dollars, no more.... Fernando >;-) >We'll be back for more too. Like the junky said: >"The first try is one too many, and the last one is never enough."
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