Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!im4u!swrinde!petro!atrium!chanst
From: chanst@atrium.UUCP (Steve T Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Prices (very long)
Summary: I know support is important too..
Message-ID: <189@atrium.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 16:04:49 GMT
References: <2420@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Atrium @ The Alamo
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Let me comment on the very long article that I have just read..
First off, I know support to a product is very important, BUT
thats no excuse that it will sell (retail) so much, why is it
cost so much for me to get a Lattice C Compiler (for example)
at my local dealer, when I can get it from mail order company
cheaper??  Now, I don't know about you, but I am feeling that
I am getting ripped off just by buying it from my local dealer.
Why can't he offer competitive prices as mail order company..

As for your Apple software that does not match the description
of the box, Todd.. The act of the software company requesting
money for the so called 'upgrade' is cheating, they should have
told you to send back the original disk for exchange for the
version thats on the box.  This has nothing to do with software
prices but have to do with Consumer protection, you should have
taken this case to the local Better Business Bureau, or the 
attorney generals office and let them figure it out.. What
happens when they say that there is nothing they can do? Well
I don't know, because I am not a lawyer. But thats what you
should have done, instead of just complaining and complaining
to yourself...
 
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| Steve Chan                       UUCP/ARPA: gatech!petro!atrium!chanst |
| @ Atrium @ The Alamo                                                   |
| San Antonio, Texas                                                     |
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