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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Excessive Corel-Draw Upgrade Price
Message-ID: <3259@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 13:30:49 GMT
References: <278@uninet.vbo.dec.com>
Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <278@uninet.vbo.dec.com> mcadoo@ijsapl.dec.com (Alan McAdoo) writes:


>I was a happy user of Corel-Draw v1.1 but I was told that I needed to upgrade 
>to Corel-Draw version 1.2 to use Windows-3.

>Even though there is minimum added functionality in this upgrade, apart from 
>being compatible with windows-3, I was quoted a price of $859 including tax for 
>this upgrade by 'Software Solutions Benelux' the Dutch Importer. This includes 
>the actual upgrade fee plus a Penalty Fee, because I originally purchased 
>Corel-Draw in the USA via mail-order (before Software Solutions had the 
>Importer-ship).


	This to me sounds like you are having problems with the importer and
	not with Corel Systems.  How much is the Penalty FEE?

	I believe that here is the states the upgrade price was well below
	$100.  Recent purchases were free to upgrade.  $859 sounds like a
	lot of money since the list price for Corel-Draw is $500 (US) and it
	can be purchased mail-order for $300.

	I would recommend calling Corel-Draw in the US and complaining to
	them.


	Hope this helps.

	-----Dale
		Rogerson-----