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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <2100@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 20:42:33 GMT
References: <8901012214.AA25093@amon-re.cs.odu.edu> <437@marob.MASA.COM> <580@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <441@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <441@marob.MASA.COM> cabreu@marob.masa.com (Carlos Cabreu) writes:
>In article <580@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:

>>Instead they kept adding features.  And adding customers.  Can you
>>say "Bait and switch"?  I can just see the marketing guys up on
>>the 25th floor with smiles from ear to ear.

As a fairly impartial observer (we don't get it up here in Canada) I'd have
to agree with this last statement.

Basically PC-Pursuit was product with specific characteristics:

	unlimited use during certain time periods 
	fixed price per month

The New and Improved PC-Pursuit has *different* characteristics:

	unlimited use during certain time periods
	price based on use, scaled to amount of use

This is not the same product. It is a *new* product. They just are giving it
the same name. And switching all of the old product's customers over to
using new product. 

Just 'cause the say it's the same product doesn't mean that it is.



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