Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Excessive Corel-Draw Upgrade Price Message-ID: <3282@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 2 Sep 90 10:54:46 GMT References: <278@uninet.vbo.dec.com> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 22 dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: >mcadoo @ijsapl.dec.com (Alan McAdoo) writes: >> Have other companies charged such ridiculous upgrade fees ? >> >> ps. DO NOT BUY COREL_DRAW unless you want to continually pay exorbitant price >> >I think it is extremely unfair of you to post a worldwide message explaining >the problems you are having and making Corel Draw sound very bad when they >are only problems local to you because you did not buy the product in your >own country. You have to realize that there are always drawbacks to buying >software from another country. Perhaps, but there are usually drawbacks when buying translated US software from a local importer/subsidiary, too. Often local versions are inferior to the original US versions, but cost nearly twice as much, here. The German version of MS Windows is an example. Wolfgang Strobl #include