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- > For the entire work of shooting and editing a school play, this includes the
- > school's mark up - it is about $18, if I remeber right. Of that - he has
- > calculated $5 for the price of the tape, the cover(not cardboard, but a hard
- > plastic), and the wear and tear on his duplication decks. That is what a
- > small duplicating company would generally charge according to him when I
- > asked him.
- >
- > So I guess you _could_ complain becasue it costing him about $5 per tape....
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- Look, this discussion is becoming ludicrous. If you have a problem with
- how much the *tape* costs, then go out and buy your own blank tape and save
- the $3.
-
- However, we are not talking about how much the tape costs. Packaging is
- always among the smallest costs in the overall package. We are talking
- about the worth of the information that is contained on the medium. Do you
- think it costs Adobe $560 worth of material to sell Photoshop? Hell no.
- The manual and diskettes/CD-ROM probably total about $50. The other 92% of
- the cost of the software is for the PRODUCT, not the PACKAGE. You're paying
- for the time and effort to develop, test, market, etc. the system.
-
- I think they are imparting knowledge/information that is worth the asking
- price. They have spent the time and effort to become (we assume) successful
- businessmen in this field, and they are making that information available
- to everyone.
-
- If you the price is too high, then you aren't serious.
-
- Render me gone, |||
- Bob ^(===)^
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