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Subject: Re: Warning: Ruffian 2.0.0 is coming

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:22:12 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 16:10:26, Steve Maughan wrote:

>I initiated one of the threads that Frank refered to.  I must say I am
>disappointed with Frank's attitude which is basically, "it's not my problem".
>If it was my company then I'd be extremely interested in selling to the US.  I
>really do hope that Ruffian 2.0 is a success but I have to say that unless it's
>significantly stronger than Fritz 9 and Shredder 8 (which I doubt) and which
>will be available for <$50 in the US, I doubt that there will be many sales to
>the US.  It's possible that Niggemann's postal prices are based on large
>dedicated PC - maybe they can bring the postage down to something reasonable
>like $5.
>
>Steve

I agree 100%.

Perhaps it was not his choice to use Niggemann as the distributor.  But as the
man being charged with 'putting it all together', I would probably guess it was.

I have called Niggemann before.  And they are not especially helpful people, at
least not to me.  I don't think I will have the gall to call them and tell them
their shipping prices suck.  I just won't call them at all.



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