If you can afford it, It sounds like a good deal. That was infact the only way I was able to afford the Watcom Compiler. I would recommend that you check to make sure that any manuals are included before buying a sidegrade of Vue however. I still don't have manuals for Watcom and because of that it is much less useful than it would otherwise be. I'm still hoping to sidegrade into MAX or Lightwave but I doubt that will happen, and I just spent my hundred upgrading to Poser 5 so it'll be a while before I can sidegrade to Vue anyway.