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- Subject: Re: Academic Pricing??
- To: "Zomby" <zomby@infose.com>
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- From: Gene Michael DeClark <gdeclar@indy.tds.net>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:22:54 -0500
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- >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/
- >
- >
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- 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!)
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