I read the Internet mail every day, and will reply immediately (allow a couple of days for net.delay), but only call CI$ once a fortnight, or less.
——— TANSTAAFL ———
Or “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”. This application is NOT free. It is made available on a try-before-you-buy basis, under the Shareware system. If you use it, please send the registration price to one of the addresses above (e-mail registrations accepted if paying by credit card). The prices of my four Shareware products are as follows:
• SndConverter Pro™: US$20
• SndConverter Lite™: US$9.95
• SndPlayer™: US$15
• SndCataloguer™: US$9.95
All of my prices include international airmail and all other costs.
Each person who registers in full will receive a personalised Registration Licence Certificate and will be entitled to upgrade to future versions at no further cost, from whatever source you obtained this version, plus they will also be entitled to free support via Internet, CompuServe or airmail. I will answer any questions you might have personally.
Note: Registrations must be in the name of an individual, and allow one copy of the application(s) to be used. Companies or organisations that wish to make the software available on a server or similar must obtain a site licence. Please contact Dejal Userware for details.
You will notice that I have included a registration reminder in this version of the application. I’m being friendly about it: just hit Return and it won’t bother you. However, to avoid having the dialog appear each time, you will need to register. The Licence Certificate that all Registered Users receive includes a Registration Code for each registered application. When you get your Registration Code — which I will even provide sooner via e-mail if you request it — enter the information into the dialog you get when you click the “Personalise…” button in the About (or registration reminder) dialog. I was somewhat hesitant about including this reminder dialog in the application, but since the only people it affects long term are dishonest ones, it is worth it.
Remember: the Shareware system only works if everyone plays their part. Not paying for Shareware products not only hurts the authors, it ultimately hurts you, the users, if developers give up on distributing high quality software through the Shareware system. Paying for Shareware is not charity, it is your legal obligation if you continue to use the software after a reasonable (i.e. 15 – 30 day) trial period. Not paying is software piracy, i.e. theft. Of course, pragmatically speaking you’ll get more than your money’s worth, especially if you order the Dejal Sound Utilities bundle, described below.
One of my Registered Users put it very well:
“Shareware IS the practice of believing the best in spite of illusions to the contrary, a great manifestation of enlightened mankind, a fabulous opportunity to make real the ideal world we all seek, one shareware upload at a time, one shareware fee at a time. My response to those who don't pay their shareware fees (and I was one of them for about 2 years) is; you don't know what you are missing. I feel really HAPPY when I send a shareware fee! I even sometimes send a thank-you note to freeware authors. I do it because it makes ME feel good. Not paying is action from the belief in scarcity, a self-reinforcing and sad way of thinking/acting. Mailing a check strengthens the opposite attitudes, and therein lies the benefit to me.”
— Francis Martin, USA
——— REGISTRATION FORM ———
The Dejal Userware Registration and Order Form is available in a separate file for your convenience. Or, you can use the “Print Reg. Form…” command from the File menu in SndConverter Pro™, SndPlayer™ or SndCataloguer™ to print a more compact registration form, if you prefer. If you don’t want to send one of the full forms, simply jot down your name, address, any e-mail address where you can be contacted, the name(s) of the product(s) you wish to order and where you got the software from on a scrap of paper and include it with your money or credit card details. Please make out cheques etc to “Dejal Userware”.
All information you provide will remain strictly confidential, though I may include any nice comments you make about my software in the documentation, unless you specify otherwise.
——— DEJAL SOUND UTILITIES BUNDLE ———
This is the easy way to register for everything and get other benefits. If you want to keep things as simple as possible, this is for you! The bundle includes:
* Registration for SndConverter Pro
* Registration for SndConverter Lite
* Registration for SndPlayer
* Registration for SndCataloguer
* SndRecorder and all the other Freeware products
* A copy of the Dejal Userware disk, containing all the software and my sound catalogues (described below)
* Three sound disks of your choice from my collection (a list of the disk titles is provided in the documentation for all Shareware except SndConverter Lite) — if you don’t specify which disks, I will select three favourites for you.
* Airmail postage, packaging and handling
* Registration certificate for all four Shareware programs
——— DISK & AUTO UPGRADE OPTIONS ———
The following additional options are available. All prices are in US$ (as an internationally recognised and exchangeable currency) for people outside New Zealand, or NZ$ for New Zealand destinations.
The “disk” referred to below is the Dejal Userware distribution disk, which contains the latest versions of all four Shareware products, plus my Donationware and numerous Freeware programs, and complete catalogues of the Dejal Sound Library — my collection of over 1,200 sounds (over 60 disks) — listing the details of each & every sound, and other goodies from time to time.
• Receive a copy of the disk (described above), either immediately or when the next version after your current one is released (make sure you tell me what version you have!). You can order this even if you haven’t registered for any of my software. $5.
• Upgrade SndConverter Lite to SndConverter Pro. $10.
• Subscribe to the AutoUpgrade option: you’ll receive a disk whenever a new version of the program(s) you are registered for is released (to 8 disks). The best way to guarantee that you always have the latest version! $50.
• You can also request that a disk or disks of interesting sounds be included in each mailing of your AutoUpgrade subscription. This costs an additional $3 for each disk to be included in each mailing. For example, if you request 4 sound disks, this will cost $3 multiplied by 8 mailings multiplied by 4 disks per mailing, totalling $96; you will receive 4 disks full of sounds with each AutoUpgrade software disk: a total of 32 disks of sounds over the whole subscripton period! The maximum number of disks per mailing to avoid duplicate sounds is about 10. [Thanks to Registered User Peter Skorpil for suggesting this option.]
Note that to qualify for the AutoUpgrade option above you must be registered for at least one of my Shareware products. You can register at the same time as ordering.
• I spend a fair amount of time writing and supporting my Shareware, Donationware and Freeware products. I would like to be able to afford to spend all of my time doing this. If you can spare a little more, you might like to make a donation to help me to support myself through my Shareware efforts. I don’t offer anything in return for this, other than the knowledge that you are helping a struggling author to get ahead, or at least justify the time I put in. I’d welcome as little or as much as you can afford, be it $10, $50, or $200! Thank you.
——— DISCOUNTS & PAYMENT METHODS ———
I am currently prepared to offer a 10% discount on all of the above prices if you are paying in cash.
For small amounts in particular, I really would prefer cash, as banking foreign cheques takes a long time.
All prices are quoted in US$, since it is an internationally convertible currency. Note, though, that I can accept any major international currency (if in doubt, ask via e-mail, or send it to me anyway and in the unlikely event I can’t bank it I’ll return your money for you to try again).
I can accept cash and cheques (or “checks” to Americans!), international money orders, and VISA, MasterCard, Bankcard, Diners Club and American Express credit cards. I will issue you with a receipt together with your Registration Licence Certificate and / or disks.
If you pay by credit card, note that I have to charge your card in NZ currency, so the amount that will appear on your statement might be a few dollars off the stated price, due to exchange rate fluctuations.
What method do I prefer? In order of preference, from best to worst: cash (any currency); Amex; Diners; cheques; VISA; MasterCard; Bankcard. No one has sent me an international money order yet (surprise, surprise <g>), so I don’t know where they’d fit. My favourites aside, I’m quite happy to accept whatever form of payment is most convenient to you.
——— QUERIES & SUPPORT ———
I strongly believe in communicating with my customers. You may have found, as I have, that many Shareware authors totally ignore their customers — if you write to them with a suggestion or question, they never respond. Not me. If you contact me (via either e-mail or snail mail), I will respond. I enjoy getting mail, of either sort, especially if it has the word “Registration” on it. <grin>
Any queries you might have, support questions (for Registered Users only), or notification of bugs should be made via one of the addresses given at the start of this document (preferably Internet e-mail, if possible).
——— DISTRIBUTION ———
You are welcome and encouraged to give this program away to your friends, user group, or anyone at all for that matter, provided that it is unmodified and you only distribute it in the original archive file as I release it. Do NOT distribute the application without the documentation!! You may not charge for the software, except a nominal copying fee.
Commercial software distributors must contact Dejal Userware for permission to include any of my Shareware in their collections. I have a special deal available to distributors (both commercial and user groups), which includes a free disk of the latest versions of all my software plus a free AutoUpgrade subscription (conditions apply) — contact Dejal Userware for details.
