Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Sibelius
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 04:14:24 -0400

List price over here is MUCH higher - 699 pounds!!!
Roger S.

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tim Roberts wrote:

> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:13:52 -0700
> From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Re: Sibelius
>
> 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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