Subj : Re: Upgrading is a lot of money To : CBFalconer From : meirman Date : Sat Jan 05 2002 05:44 pm From: meirman In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Sun, 06 Jan 2002 02:34:44 GMT CBFalconer posted: >meirman wrote: >> >> I bought 4Dos for win3.1 and 4dos for win9x and Take Command 16 and TC >> 32, and now I want to upgrade my system to winxp. >> >> The price seems awfully high for a regular customer, $70. And I >> gather, 20 more dollars for the manual. And they talk about how many >> new things there are, so I suppose I need the manual. >> >> They consider it a new product but I just want to upgrade. It wasn't >> my idea that xp should be more like NT than like 98. > >Maybe you should have stuck with 98. I haven't upgraded yet, but I want to because I have a lot of problems with 98. That's why I usually use 3.1, but 3.1 won't do a few things. > Somehow I don't see Conn, >Rawson, and Bessy making much more than a living out of it, if >that. I didn't suggest anyone was getting unjustly enriched. Only that it is a lot of money for a regular customer like me (that is, I've already bought for two OS's. I was careful not to accidentally repeat those whining words that others use in many places: unfair, taking advantage of us, etc. I don't claim that. And Charles pointed out that there is a conversion license for 35 dollars. So I was well-advised to raise the point. > How many Windows users are too ignorant to use even the >MsDos window, let alone the command line and 4dos etc. The >remainder is not a monster market. That's true, a very good point, but otoh that doesn't make it worth more to me. When I sold surplus tv's I had repaired, one guy asked me if it was worth what I was asking**. I said, "Please don't ask me that. I have enough trouble deciding what I want to charge for it." Now I'm on the other side, deciding how much it is worth it to me to pay for it. This is unrelated to how much they want to sell it, just like the two parts were when I was selling instead of buying. **It was probably a very good price. I charged 25% (or even more) less than the Salvation Army did. But I don't know what it is worth to a buyer, and I wasn't going to guess.. >How much did you pay to have the spyware on your machine? I don't know what you mean. meirman@QQQerols.com If you email me, please let me know whether remove the QQQ or not you are posting the same letter. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-2 * Origin: Mach2 Systems (1:342/3) .