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- From: cgb@count0.cmhnet.org (Charles G. Bennett)
- Subject: Re: Solid Value, Rulers, and Copy Protection
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.135953.374@count0.uucp>
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- Organization: BenaTong
- References: <1992Aug12.015856.13142@fsg.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:59:53 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- In article <1992Aug12.015856.13142@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
- writes:
- >
- > Having followed this thread for a while, I must comment on some things.
- > I'm going to extrapolate a bit to all computer systems instead of just next.
- [some stuff deleted]
- > Quicken, at $60, is RARELY pirated. You can run a small business on
- > it and it compares favorably with packages costing $500 or more. Its
- > sold gazillions of copies.
-
- But don't forget market share, you can truly sell "gazillions" of Quicken
- because there are gazillions^10 possible customers. If EVERY NeXT owner
- bought (or could buy) Quicken your total sales would be about 2 million gross.
- (40,000 * $50) most likey you would be lucky to get 10% so $200,000. Now they
- would be HAPPY to NET 30% (after taxes and rent and programmers and 50%
- discount to resalers) so they would be lucky to make $60,000.
-
- I realize that I'm playing fast and loose with the numbers, but I think you get
- my point. It's no wonder that Quicken sold on the NEXT would sell for at
- least $300.00.
-
- For example we sell our Serial objects for $50.00 ( $80 after Sept 1). They are
- NOT the profit center of our company by any means. (Consulting is). Why did
- we price our objects at $50.00 instead of $700.00 like the "other" folks?
- Simply because we felt that these kinds of tools SHOULD be priced at that level
- and that other (small) developers would "impluse" buy objects at that price
- rather than write them for themselves since $50.00 of a developers time is
- about 45mins these days. This has proven to be true.
-
- I bet that Glenn's pricing of "Rulers" falls into the "loss leader" catagory of
- sales, and they hope you'll pick up some "type faces" or "paste up" while your
- there..
-
- It is not always greed that sets the pricing of software. The reason that
- some of the software on the NeXT has PC pricing reflects
-
- 1. Small developers have lower over head so they can sell cheaper.
-
- 2. Making the NeXT succeed is a religious issue with us zealots
- and the pricing of the software reflects that desire.
-
-
-
-
- [deleted]
- > chuck
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------
- > chuck yerkes, fusion systems group (chuck@fsg.com)
- >
- > "The opinions here are mine, not my
- > company's and not necessarily right."
-
- Chuck Bennett
- BenaTong
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- cgb@count0.cmhnet.org
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