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From: jim@hcr.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Empress pricing policy
Message-ID: <4053@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 16:31:55 GMT
References: <1988Sep28.150224.26393@lsuc.uucp> <366@telly.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <366@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP 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.
>-- 
> Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
>evan@telly.UUCP (PENDING: evan@telly.on.ca) / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan
>                           Don't worry - Be happy.

But like most Canadian Software companies, a majority of their sales are outside
of Canada.  The problems maintaining multiple price lists are just to much
of a headache.  Anyways, you could get a price break is you just played the
market right, only pay them when the Canadian dollar is high relative to the
american dollar!

I can't agree with the policy of "buy something else".  That just sends
Canadian dollars outside the country.  The price of something is always
relative, and it will cost you the same if you pay in Canadian dollars,
American dollars, Yen, or little rocks with holes in them! :-)

Jim Sullivan

"These are my opinions, so keep your hands off them"