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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Empress pricing policy
Message-ID: <1903@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 18:06:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1903
References: <1988Sep28.150224.26393@lsuc.uucp> <366@telly.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <366@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>In article <1988Sep28.150224.26393@lsuc.uucp>, dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) writes:

>This Canadian company refuses to sell its products or support
>to other Canadian companies in Canadian currency. Every time I have been
>quoted a price for anything from Rhodnius, it's in US dollars - I have to
>worry about the exchange myself. As recently as a few months ago, I was told
>that the company neither had nor planned to produce a Canadian currency price
>list. This from a firm based in Toronto.
>
>I'm sure Americans would be more than a little irate at a US company which
>forces them to pay for products in yen. This policy is nothing short of
>odious, and I ask my Canadian associates and clients to show their
>displeasure with their chequebooks. Buy something else.

When I ran a company (NCI) selling p-System software for IBM PC's out of 
Vancouver approxiametly 92% of our business was from the US. About 4% was
from international sales other than the US. The balance of about 4% was
Canadian.

We did *everything* in US dollars. Including tracking sales figures, costing
etc. 

The sales people would always quote US founds unless they knew that it was a
Canadian customer. Then they would convert using current rates to Canadian.

Believe me when you are running mail/phone order software sales out of
Canada this simplifies things. You cater to your target market. Just
because a company is based in Toronto doesn't mean that is where they plan
on making their sales. Lets face it the old adage about California being a
bigger market than Canada is inescapable. You should applaud this firm's
initiative for seeking out new markets and bringing foreign currency into
the country.

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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532