Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 22:28:16 03/28/99
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On March 29, 1999 at 01:10:32, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On March 29, 1999 at 00:58:49, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >> >>On March 29, 1999 at 00:41:20, Lin Harper wrote: >> >>>While we're on the subject, why don't the "professional"(did I spell that >>>right?) programs appear on the shelves of computer game warehouses, alongside >>>CM6K and the 'crappy' ones? Are they too snooty? Or is it that their prices will >>>appear a little out of line in comparison to the other games. Mindscape has the >>>better business approach to marketing a chess program, and will make a killing >>>now with these SSDF results! >> >>Because no one apart from die hard chess fans will buy them >> >>Okay In Australia this is how much chess programs cost that I know of >> >>Hiarcs7 $200 >>Fritz5.32 $129 >>Rebel 9 $199 (now that is funny selling Rebel 9 for more than Rebel >>10) >>Rebel 10 $129 >>Shredder3 $180 >>M-chess Pro $220 >>Chess Genius $219 >>Socrates $135 >>Gideon Pro $135 >> >>Chessmaster 6000 $49 >> >> >>Now looking at those prices I have to choose from, which one do you think mummy >>and daddy are going to buy for their child that wants a computer chess program >>with some strength. ? >> >>which one in these hard economic time when most people are hard up on money do >>you think they will buy ? >> >>How many people want to buy the best or strongest they can get, simply because >>it is number one, what do you think they will buy ? >> >>Which one simply looks better than the rest to most of the mass market. ? >> >>Which one includes a tutorial on how to play chess from start to finish at no >>extra cost ? >> >>the Answer to these questions and many more for the mass market is CM6K > > >Dear Micheal, > >I assume that all prices are in Australian dollars and $1 US = $1.60 Aus . >No wonder you think that CM6000 is a good buy. Why is MChess 8 so expensive >when we can get it for $48.00 US?? > >I think that you are getting cheated by your local dealer. When you order from >ICD do you have to pay exorbitant duties to your socialist government? > >Tim By the time the dealer buys it, pay the shipping, and the governement import taxes and the rest of the crap that he has to pay, by the time we get it it is very expensive, no different than most other countries. But on the other hand Mindscape mass market their software and are much bigger than the rest. So that is another reason they can make it cheaper. Either way, the availablity is not here, and alot of people including me do not trust transactions over the interent. I have not made one yet and I never will. If I cannot get it ordered to Australia through a retailer, then I do not get it. Remeber Tim, we are talking about the mass market, not a small percentage of people who are dedicated to chess. If I showed Rebel 10 and CM6K to some people wanting to learn chess, I know clearly what they will choose. cause I have both programs and I have seem their reactions. CM6K by a long way. Its all good and fine to analyse games and to use all the special features in other programs, but do you think for most that the mass market wants those features, they want to play a computer at chess. CM6K does a good job at most things and its strength means that people will buy it cause it can match it with the best and is now currently number one.
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