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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: BAM351.ZIP - Bank Account Manager v3.51: Family finance mgr
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.045322.18971@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <shephard.726795428@sfu.ca> <1993Jan12.055423.2422@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:53:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.055423.2422@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR) writes:
- >From article <shephard.726795428@sfu.ca>, by (Gordon Shephard):
- >> kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
- >>>
- >>>That means the minimum registration fee is US $40 ... Is that too much? ...
- >>>given that, with 40 (or fewer) bucks, one can get a copy of Quicken 6.0 - the
-
- >> Then again, I have the option of trying out BAM before purchasing it.
- >> I don't have the same luxury with quicken.
- >
- >By that logic, a $35,000 Cadillac is a better buy than a $15,000 Chevy
- >if you get to test drive the Cadillac but not the Chevy.
-
- Without taking sides in the actual comparison between BAM and
- Quicked, that is a bad analogy even if superficially it may seem
- persuasive. A decision maker's (user's/buyer's) marginal utility
- for the monetary difference between the price of a Caddy and a
- Chedy, and the difference of BAM and Quicked are in entirely
- different brackets. Basic economics and decision making utility
- theory taught at any business school.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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