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id m0uV2ph-0007tuC; Sat, 15 Jun 96 15:24 MDT Received: from mypc.indy.tds.net (roin3-a02.indy.tds.net [207.49.209.35]) by madison.tdsnet.com (8.6.12/CICNet) with SMTP id QAA23997; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:22:54 -0500 Mime-version: 1.0 Message-id: <199606152122.QAA23997@madison.tdsnet.com> Cc: executor@ardi.com Subject: Re: Academic Pricing?? To: "Zomby" <zomby@infose.com> X-mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 From: Gene Michael DeClark <gdeclar@indy.tds.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-sender: gdeclar@mail.tds.net Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:22:54 -0500 Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk >That would be a VERY nice thing because I know *I* can't afford the full >priced version. It would give you the opportunity to sell a lot more >copies of the product to people that may not be able to pay the full >price, especially since it's going to be sold off-the-shelf. > >Richard Martin >zomby@infose.com >http://www.infose.com/zomby/ > > One solution to this problem which I think the people at ARDI may be able to work out is to comission a student price rate, but only through student book stores at colleges. Almost every town has a college nearby, and they always check for student IDs at college bookstores. It is easy to know if a bookstore is associated with a college (especially since many of them are owned by nationwide chains), which would cut out almost all work on ARDI's part. In fact, all they'd have to do is tell college bookstores normal and student prices, and then let the bookstores duke it out with the consumer. College bookstores would also give student pricing to high school students, that is unless told otherwise by the manufacturer (some companies I've heard of don't give discounts to students of public (free) schools.) I honestly can say that I think you'll find most of your customers in acadamea, since academic institutions have by in large adopted Macs, while individuals have adopted PCs (this IS a generalization.) This has created a compatibility issue which I know many students in my high school and my college felt. ARDI, knowing this, has to think "Well, if a large portion of our customers will be student/faculty, and we give this out for a dirt cheap price, we may end up selling a lot of copies, but would we be able to support ourselves as well as we would if we charged full price and sold fewer copies?" It's a tough question to answer. But, as far as the difficulties behind student pricing in terms of work load, I just thought I'd suggest the college bookstore-only idea as a potential solution. --Gene who won't benefit from academic discounts too much longer (thank goodness!)