jval opened this issue on Mar 24, 2004 ยท 19 posts
jval posted Wed, 24 March 2004 at 5:48 PM
...They'll offer everyone a discount when they can. ...They need some $$ to support their continuance development for intergation with Carrara and Poser. Agreed. But that isn't my point. Again, the majority of community members probably do not use Carrara so it is unlikely they will be interested in buying a Carrara plug-in. Therefore promoting an introductory discount for Transposer in these venues is like firing a shotgun into a forest in the hopes that you might hit a fly or two. On the other hand, registered Carrara users are all potential Transposer customers and those who have also purchased C add-ons may be even more likely to buy. Not all Carrara users frequent the on-line communities nor do they necessarily visit Eovia's site frequently. Those users, even though they may have a need for Transposer, will remain blithely unaware that it even exists. My comment is not about personally saving money- after all, because I'm here I do know about and can take advantage of this discount. In any case, the discount isn't a huge issue to me. I bought both VectorStyle and PowerPack only to have Eovia sales discount them shortly afterwards. This was a minor annoyance but I certainly didn't lose any sleep over it. Even though I don't use Poser a lot I'll probably get Transposer anyhow, if only to financially support Eovia. After all, I want to see continued Carrara development. I have no objection to their offering promo discounts here. It does absolutely no harm. But when email is cheap, efficient and fast I fail to understand why they don't also directly target their registered customers. Offering them a discount too might make the buy/not buy difference. As it is, the only reason I know Transposer exists is because of these forums. That's what makes me wonder- seems kind of ass-backwards to me. - Jack