agiel opened this issue on Jun 30, 2006 · 30 posts
Dale B posted Fri, 07 July 2006 at 6:00 AM
Quote - I personally got angry at the offer for free vue 6. I bought vue 5 esprit, then paid the megabucks to get infinity. Now I'll have to buy 6 as well. I like many others were there for them before, and now we get the shaft. I just hope the upgrade cost to 6 infinite takes all that into consideration.
-Are- we getting the shaft? Stop and think about it. This offer is =only= for those who purchase Vue5 products now.....at full price. Someone who forked out $599 for V5I and then 60 days later got slapped with a new version that demanded another $200 thereabouts to upgrade to would have reason to be angry. Those people aren't getting anything for 'free'; I paid upgrade price for my V5I, which was considerably less than what a new adopter will pay for a software package about to be obsoleted by a new release (hell's bells, I got V4Pro, V5, and V5I for less than a new adopter will pay for V5I). Anyway you slice it, the newbies are going to be paying more for V6I than us long time upgraders who take advantage of the release upgrade pricing (and e-on has to date had good prices for those upgrades/crossgrades). No one's getting anything for free; they are just being assured that they aren't going to be punished for being late to dinner.