Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 10:03:15 01/11/00
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That's write, er, I mean, Right!, and that's what I'm waiting for. I think its ridiculoulos, that a company keeps making offers on an upgrade price of their product, then calls it something else, and/or makes some other product that is very simular, but decides that its enough different that they won't give their most loyal customers a price break on it. Too loosely paraphrase Lincoln, 'You can fool some of the chess software buyer's some of the time, and all of the chess software buyer's some the time, but you can't fool all of us chess software buyer's all of the time:). As an example, I consider myself a very loyal supporter of the chess software companies - I have bought the upgrades of many of them religiously (from 3 or 4 different companies), for many years. When I buy from Chess Base, I always recieve an upgrade (or previous version), price on their chess programs, even if the name is something else. Junior6 cost less, because I've bought Fritz6, for example. Anyway, I will continue to hope that the Rebel company will do well, even though I must tell you, they have lost me as one of their (more) loyal customers, who has bought the upgrades & successer versions of their product over the many years... I say again, Oh well, and perhaps its time for me to focus only on Chess Base products alone, to save money, hard disk space, and the need for philosophic self-debates... Larry T. On January 11, 2000 at 12:22:46, Chessfun wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 11:56:22, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>Hi Larry, >> >> >>You are totally correct sir. You would of course charge as much as the market >>would bear if you were the programmer. I too grumble at paying top dollar but >>then I remember when MChess cost us $149.00 from ICD--and we gladly paid it. >> >>You are probably like me (you play chess a hell of a lot better than me however) >>and will buy Christophes' program because it is one of the best out there. >> >>You could of course donate a used Pentium III 500Mhz to Mr. Theron and he will >>probably give you a couple or more "free" copies of Chess Tiger. >> >>Seriously, Mr. Schroder is an astute businessman and knows that companies that >>give away products do not survive. Just look at AOL as an example. They "give >>away" free browsers and then charge $19.95 per month for full time internet >>time. Sounds a bit like Rebel-Decade, don't it..? >> >>Respectfully, >> >>TJ Frohlick > >I could be wrong, but I seem to recall an upgrade to a windows version >also being offered to Rebel 10 customers when it first came out. >If I am wrong---I apologize in advance. >Thanks.
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