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Subject: Re: If Chessbase engines' costs were (lets say) 10 dollars.......

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:49:19 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 17:54:36, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 17:46:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2005 at 17:38:42, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>>
>>>....I (according to American Marketing Association estimates)assure they would
>>>sell ten more times than nowadays......
>>
>>At (therefore) what is probably a considerable loss.
>>
>>Development costs are fixed and are purely a function of headcount.
>>
>>Manufacture and packaging are fairly negligible (pressing a CD is less than 50
>>cents).
>>
>>Technical support for each engine sold will still be the same, and is probably
>>the broad majority of the cost [as an average].
>
>If the price is only 10$ then it is logical to  give no technical support unless
>the customer pay additional money.

What commercial product would you buy with no technical support?

Have you ever brought home a software product and then had trouble getting it to
work?  I have.  If it did not offer any technical support, I would try to make
it so that it could not be sold in Washington state, and I would probably
succeed.



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