Author: margolies,marc
Date: 12:31:00 04/30/04
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In the USA, through Viva media, deepfritz8 sells for 80 usd on amazon.com your european price includes your VAT at 99 euros. On April 30, 2004 at 14:08:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 30, 2004 at 10:58:51, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On April 29, 2004 at 10:17:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On April 29, 2004 at 02:35:18, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On April 28, 2004 at 17:51:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 28, 2004 at 17:46:45, Jonas Bylund wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> This would cost you many customers. Many people want the Chess engines for >>>>>>>playing tournaments inside Chessbase GUI and they are very lazy to play by hand >>>>>>>in a non-automatic way, the moves. So you can create a Diep that will play it's >>>>>>>own interface and a Diep-winboard compatible. Like Chessmaster 8000/9000. >>>>>> >>>>>>Yes i agree, i for one would only buy Diep if it was possible to load in >>>>>>different GUI's. A standalone Diep GUI + winboard engine, (of the same Diep >>>>>>version of course) and i would be more than happy cough up the money. >>>>> >>>>>I do not want you as a user. >>>> >>>>How many people do you need to tell you the same thing in order to change your >>>>mind about it? >>> >>>Oh if just about 0.01% of the total potential market want something i'll do it. >>> >>>DIEP (dos) has been at about 20 million cdroms (sold as win95 software), but i >>>didn't earn a penny at that of course (it was freeware, the fact that it begged >>>for getting registered no one cared about). >>> >>>I always knew it when a new shop released a shareware cdrom with at it diep, >>>because within a week i would get 1000 emails from new users then begging for a >>>newer version for free or asking whether it would run on their old 386 too (some >>>even phone at 11 PM sunday, *never* put your telephone number in a textfile, >>>dumb beginners mistake mine). Real bad was when a certain distributor released >>>it. Even 2 neighbours of me came to me tell me they had seen a program at the >>>cdrom called DIEP. Imagine one of them is a cop. Knows as much from software >>>like i know from Chinese. >>> >>>So 0.01% from that is 0.0001 * 20 000 000 = 2000 users. >>> >>>I saw 10 people post here. 20 of them were not serious to buy diep, and 2 of >>>them offered 20 euro too little to even buy shredder8. >> >>When you win umpteen world championships, maybe you can charge what SMK does and >>get the same number of sales. Until then, 20 euros less doesn't sound that >>unreasonable. >> >>Dave > >Chessbase sells deepfritz for 99 euro. > >What is your comment on that?
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