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Subject: Re: Rebel 11 Package: Price, for God sake...

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:17:40 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?



And anyway on the ChessMaster 8000 CD you'll get only one top engine.

On the Rebel 11 CD, you have 3 top engines, 2 of them have been on top of the
SSDF list when they were younger, and all have different playing styles. :)



    Christophe



>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.
>;-)
>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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