Yes. They need to drop the price. It is like $119 or something. I threw away the flyer. So, since I have two licenses to upgrade, it would be $250 or so (with shipping and stuff). Now, if it was say $100 to do both, I might consider it. Otherwise, I might just wait until the next version in a couple of months.
On 1/13/08, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaron Sherber wrote: > > At 09:47 PM 1/12/2008, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > >I still haven't upgraded to Finale 2008, but today in the mail I got a > > >little mailer from MakeMusic, and they are enticing the offer with the > > >inclusion of a FREE Finale T-Shirt. > > > > Not fair! We *early* adopters used to get the t-shirt! I don't think > > I've gotten one in 3 or 4 years. > > > > That's because they know they've got the early adopters hooked. It's > the later adopters who need the extra persuasion to upgrade that only a > free t-shirt can give. I'm sure there are thousands who had determined > to skip the 2008 upgrade who are reading that t-shirt offer and saying, > "Gee, I needed a new T-shirt and this is so much more convenient than > driving all the way to WalMart and spending $7! And I get this > wonderful software so that I, too, can be confused by the menu changes! > What a bargain, and I'll look all the rage at the next 'Geeks > Anonymous' meeting!" :-) > > T-shirt offers are known to be balance-tippers when major upgrades to > new versions which haven't been wholeheartedly accepted by the early > adopters are at stake! (Not! -- probably some MakeMusic executive has a > spouse who runs a t-shirt printing business where things are slow right > now.) Now a Finale coffee mug -- That would make more people sit up and > take notice. > > Price drops might be better -- look at all of us who bought Sibelius > when they lowered their cross-grade price! If MakeMusic wants to get > more people using Fin2008, all they have to do is drop the price to $50 > and it'll sell like hotcakes, especially since we can always keep our > earlier versions of Finale on our computers so they don't have to bother > with backwards-compatibility the way Sibelius does. And if they offered > a cross-grade price at bargain-basement prices for a month aimed at > Sibelius users, they might get a lot of new business also. After all, > they've got the stock which they need to move out the door. Lowering > the price and actually moving the stock is better than keeping the price > high and having to destroy the stock when Fin2009 comes out. > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
