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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: International pricing of DCF/2
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:20:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.052011.4343@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: DCF/2 compression
- References: <724852954lance.lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <724852954lance.lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz> lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes) writes:
- > Last week, I ordered the DCF/2 disk-compression utility from
- > Proportional Software Corp. Got a bit of a surprise about the
- > price. It's been posted here as $US99.95 till end of Dec 92.
- > This is the _US_ price. The "international" price is $US139.95
- > (plus P&P) till end Dec. The reason given for this substantial
- > difference is "to provide for the development of international
- > distribution and to better service our international customers'
- > support".
- >
- > The fax I received didn't give a definite release date.
- > __
- > _______ Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
- > //// ZL2AJH Wellington, New Zealand
- >
-
- Now, that IS unfortunate. These guys seem unaware that people outside the US
- generally have lower purchasing power (in US dollars) to start with....then
- they jack up the price by 40%!!!
-
- US$99 is already NZ$180 plus another NZ$60-90 for shipping. The US$139 price
- will be NZ$265 + shipping ='s NZ$320????
-
- The average annual income is usually lower in NZ anyway......same goes for
- most countries outside the US.
-
- Yet US users are only paying $99 for the same thing. I moan about how
- international users - who actually pay MORE (as a proportion of what they
- earn) even at US street prices - get wacked even harder.
-
- I do not advocate piracy, but these guys are begging for it with a pricing
- policy like that.
-
- Steve
-
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