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From: so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So)
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Subject: Re: Educator discount list:  Is there/should there be one?
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.175031.1781@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 17:50:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.082920.7396@hoss.unl.edu> leo@hoss.unl.edu writes:
>Every once in a while my department has some money to spend on software or
>hardware.  Inquiring recently, however, I found that nobody on this campus
>seems to have a general list of educational discounts available.  I'm
>aware, of course, of Borland's educational pricing scheme.  And I've heard
>of one or two others.  ............

Talking about educational discounts, I am totally confused by some
companies.  Take Greenleaf Software as an example, I am interested
in their Super Functions package which is listed $299.00.  I called
for an educational discount, they offered 15% off.

Now if you purchase the same package from other software houses,
e.g. Programmer's Connection, you can get as low as $229.00 (about
23% off).  Effectively, they are not offering anything to students.

I told them about this.  They already knew about it and told me they
were not allowed to directly compete with those software houses or
something close... I don't understand a bit!


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