Jared Jenkins wrote:
Hello my name is Jared Jenkins,
I am a tech for an local office supply store in a small town. I
service copiers and pc along with other small projects. I'd like to
know what I need to do in order to sell open office with my other
software. I would like to know if you can recomend a price as well. I
just want to justify shelf space and small profit to my manager. Any
feed back is apreciated.
Thank You for your time
Jared
Hi Jared,
Price will depend on your market, however I am of the opinion that many
of our distributors underprice themsleves. You have to ask yourself
what the consequences are, of you distributing it. First you have media
cost whether you burn it yourself or get someone to press it. Then
there's install and setup time and the biggy.... Because you install it
on your customers machine, you will probably be expected to provide support.
Now it can be downloaded for free from our servers: What does the
customer get? Just the software.
Cost to them? Some bandwidth
Buy off Ebay: What do they get? The Software on a cd without download
hassle, often little or no support.
Cost $5 to $10
Buy it from you: What do they get? Installation and setup. Software
on media. Face to face support
How much is that worth? $30 - $40 -$50 ??
The licence allows you to sell it for whatever you think it's worth.
All you have to do is to establish a reasonable price differential
between the various methods of distribution.
Frankly I'd like to see OOo charging for the bandwidth of downloading
off the servers. Say a buck..... Then we would have some marketing
dollars coming in. If you compare it to itunes for instance. You pay
0.99 for a bunch of musos to get together in a studio for a couple of
days (Musos are just hackers when you come to think of it. Hacking
together some code to a point where others can use it.) and put together
a song that for the most part has less lifespan than a piece of software.
Cost is relative. Your clients will inform you if they don't think
they're getting value for money. However they will rarely inform you if
they think you're too cheap.
cheers
Yo
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