Re: Tiered pricing - a vendor's perspective

[Chris Rehm <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:34 pm, Brad Stone wrote:

> It's not emotional, it's a logical point of view from a
> customer who views it, even as you admitted, as taking
> advantage of those with bigger machines.  If it were a fact
> of business, everyone would do it.  And, obviously from
> response from some vendors, not everyone does.  Only those
> who do it and need it as a source of income defend it.

It's quite emotional and biased. You represent one vendor pricing model as if
it were criminal. A tier priced vendor could point out that user based
pricing models must be criminal because if you buy the tier priced package,
you can run as many users off it as you like. So those "per user" guys are
ripping you off.

It's just a pricing model, for heaven's sake. I do work for my church for
free, does that mean I am ripping off my customers by charging them? It is
simply one way of approching the problem of trying to sell a package for
enough money to keep the producer afloat (and hopefully profitable) while
providing a better value to the buyer than the competition.

Believe it or not, "per user" priced software vendors are also trying to make
a profit. Yup, no kidding.

> Anyhow, this thread is dead.  I'm done.  (Yes, reply
> "finally" if you want, but remember that's also just wasting
> bandwidth.. <bg>)

Ahh, cool. Here I am saying the "last word." I can't think of anything
profound, though. Sorry.

> Brad

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