I don't know the list price for this product. Tony Gravagno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Mark Ballinger mballinger-at-ballinger.cx |U2UG| wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0700, Dave S wrote: >> You can purchase it from this company : >> >> http://www.sandritech.com/ > > Yes, I know. I'm just wondering what it costs.
The best way to find out what products cost is to contact the supplier. Sandritech in particular has a good group of people and I'm sure you'll get good info, product, and service with them. I'm not one to support senseless cloaks of secrecy (I hate not seeing a price tag on items in a store) but there are many reasons to not publish pricing info. Pricing for some of these software products can vary widely depending on the VAR, their value-add in terms of support, training, etc, location, bundling, and many other factors. I might offer a well known product at cost if we agree to short or long term services or a training engagement. I might waive support fees for some period of time or offer an add-on component for less than list cost, not to mention quantity discounts. If we let 'list price' stand as any guide by which we judge products then I dare say we'd consider a whole lot of products unworthy of further investigation, and these negotiables would never even be put on the table - I've seen it happen. A price that's published today may change tomorrow. You don't want to prospects to be discouraged by a price they see in a forum when the price isn't what was posted anymore. Also, sad but a fact of life, many companies use list price as one of their key differentiators to raise or lower their own pricing to find a competitive sweet spot. If someone publishes pricing in a public forum it may mess up the vendor's competitive positioning, and even encourage other vendors to just raise their own pricing - I've seen this happen too. Finally, pricing for some products is just too complex and confusing to put into a public forum. There are often server vs client costs or concurrency factors, and some products are priced differently depending on the platform they're hosted on. Any list price posted will probably be wrong from the get-go. A vendor doesn't want to start a public debate about "I don't understand that" or "why does the price break occur there?". These are discussions to be had one-on-one. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
