Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 1999/05

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Sibelius
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:13:25 -0400

On Tue, 04 May 1999 10:48:09 -0500, Dr. David McClune wrote:
>Be aware that the suppposed list academic price [for Sibelius] is $299, but
>I have lately seen $250 as an academic price. I paid the $299 presuming,
>wrongly, that there was ONE academic price for all. According to Sibelius
>$299 is suggested but a store can price it less. This defeats the fairness
>of the academic pricing principal.

What makes you think academic pricing is about fairness? Academic pricing of
software is a marketing gimmick, designed to suck teachers into using a
particular product, thereby imparting their preferences to their students, who
will be more inclined to buy that product for themselves. Apple used this
technique to GREAT advantage in the 1980s.

Sibelius can't dictate prices to their distributors. That's illegal. They're
probably selling the product to their distributors for (wild guess) just over
$200, and the distributors charge whatever they can.

>After the semester is done, I am going to argue with both Sibelius AND
>the store (catalog) where I bought it.

You paid $299 for a product which lists for $599. I don't see that you have
very much to complain about.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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