Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:42:28 04/08/03
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On April 08, 2003 at 03:36:19, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>On April 08, 2003 at 00:12:37, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>[snip]
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>>If everything else is equal, then lowering the price should sell more.
>
>I don't agree with this one in general. (but I won't argue nearly as colourful
>as Vincent does ;) While this is probably true in many areas (like cheaper
>CDs/DVDs get sold more) in certain areas people (especially the manager-types)
>think a product must be a bad product _because_ it's cheap.
>
>Our company sells software to financial institutes, and depending on the people
>you talk to, it's sometimes a good sales argument to tell them "you need the
>best and hugest sun server there is to run this application". If we'd always say
>that it would also run on a small PC laptop, they wouldn't be interested at all.
>("Big companies need big solutions...") Whether customers of chess software are
>also like that, I cannot say, but based on the fact that some 1400ELO fanatics
>"clearly prefer the 2645ELO engine over the 2640ELO engine" makes me believe
>they could be as well. ;) (numbers are just wild guesses)
>
>Sargon
There are cases when the rating of the customer is unimportant because the
customer is playing engine-engine games and will be happy to buy an engine that
performs better.
Uri
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