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- From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Shareware Registration rates? Author please comment.
- Message-ID: <714676271.F00001@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 02:55:01 GMT
- Sender: postmaster@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au
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- In a msg on <Aug 07 04:41>, Bruce Morgan (Morgan@icarus.curtin.edu.au) writes:
-
- BM> As a shareware author (GRAPHTIME II), I would guess that about
- BM> 1 in 50 users will register. Price is also critical. When it
- BM> was $29 there were plenty of registrations. When the price went
- BM> up to $49 (in the US) to pay the distributors %, registrations
- BM> dropped off.
-
- That many huh?
-
- I'm also a shareware author (RABIRTH, a BBS utility). I mucked up the
- registration details; when I released it, I didn't know you couldn't cash
- personal cheques from overseas in Australia. In January of this year, I received
- such a personal cheque. Being the kind of guy I am :-), I sent it back, with the
- registration number, hoping that the registree would be honest enough to send
- the proper cash/bank draft. Luckily he was. However, 1.5 months ago, someone
- else did the same - I've heard _nothing_ from him, via electronic mail or post.
- Okay, it took a month for it to get there and back in January, but 1.5 is
- stretching it.. Good thing I'm putting a new key system in the next version
- :-)
-
-
- Hamish
- (not pleased :-().
-
- PS I've also received 0 problem registrations from Bulgaria, Singapore, and the
- US, so I'm not doing too badly either. Strangely, none from Australia.. (and we
- are only talking $8AUS registration!!)
-