It is possible after upgrading to the newest poser, to sell your older version? thankz

"Upgrading" - like paying for an upgrade, or "upgrading" - paying for a totally new separate version ? P4 to P6 upgrade is much cheaper than just buying yourself P6 "from the scratch", separately. But only if you buy yourself newer version as full version you'll be able to sell that older one. In other case it's illegal. Sorry for poor English ^.^

In a word ... NO. ;=]

Hi GothKurlz,

Ok, the previous post was the Reader's Digest (condensed version) and now here is ...

... the rest of the story.

When you "upgrade" you get a discounted price because you are already a customer and your upgrade is based on the serial number of your current version of Poser.

If you sell your old version of Poser, you must transfer (i.e., release) the serial number of that version of Poser to the new owner.

When you transfer the serial number of your old version to someone else, you are no longer eligible for the special upgrade price.

The person that buys your old version may very well have a problem when registering the software because the serial number will show up as a duplicate !

That is, your registered version (to qualify for the upgrade price) ...
... and ...
The new owner of your older version of Poser.

Bottom line ... Don't do it.

Besides, you never know when you might want to load up the old copy and ...

... Take a trip down memory lane.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

In other words, you have still bought all the upgrades faithfully, and now you have all the other copies that you have bought and have no further need for. Which if someone else was able to buy, They might get hooked on Poser and buy the newest version. I have fulfilled all my obligations buying all my upgrades. I know a person who would be interested once he played around with an older version, I'm sure he would, down the road buy a newer version at a later date. What needs to be done is have the Dics that comes with Poser to have a code in it that can't be copied onto a computer without a release from EFrontier, that code logs into EFontier your email address. only one copy per email address of each version of Poser. You no longer have posession of that version of Poser, it is then transfered to the new owner. It would then be up to any owner to keep your information of your transfere sales information to EFrontier to another person. If you couldn't prove it, you couldn't sell it. There should be one other stipulation involved with the sale, You couldn't sell your older Poser version untill another newer version came out and you upgraded too. From that time on you could sell your older version. Although it would be wise to keep your older version for at least 6 months to make sure there are no other reasons you would need the older version. I'm glad I can sell my car after I get a discount, (rebate) when I want to upgrade to a newer version.

Unfortunately, you don't really get to "upgrade" cars. They don't care if you bought a previous version or not.

The problem with selling your old version is that you'll need it (or at least the serial), if you ever want to reinstall the current version. Given how regularly Poser goes bad, this could be a problem.

Meanwhile, the person who bought it couldn't upgrade, since the serial is already used. And CL would be left to deal with the headache of trying to explain that to them.

(The problem with selling your old version)
There should not be a problem with the serial number there. You had just bought your upgrade (Poser 6), which will be in yours and there files. If you ever had to up grade again, You will have Poser 6's versions upgrades serial number. before you upgrade to Poser 7, You would be a fool to sell your current version before you test drive Poser 7 for at least 6 months. 1 you may like the older version better for some reason, say because maybe it renders faster, or what ever. I had bought Poser 4, and Poser Pro Pack. those two versions were linked together which I'm sure was a quick release till they finished Poser 5. and thats is fine. They should be sold together.

But I bought Poser 5 upgrade and never liked it. A lot of people like it, but I thought there were to many problems to work around and found it to be slow. This came as a complete program all by itself, but it was sill an upgrade.

Then came Poser 6 and I bought that. It's a complete Program all to itself but an upgrade. I have all the serial numbers of all the older versions. The other versions just set here because I now only use Poser 6. What a waist!

Now lets see what I will do with the money if I sell the older versions (granted for not much of a profit) of Poser that I no longer use. Maybe a movie, or more Poser Items, or put toward the next upgrad. What ever.

Lets see what will be the most likely thing a person would do if they bought one of my older versions of Poser that I sold. My guess if he liked the program, he will want to buy a new version. Sence he never bought that Poser from EFrontier, he will have to buy Poser 6 or 7 complete and New.

Thus. What has just happened is, someone else buying my old poser which became a sales tool for a newer versions of Poser. For me I will contenue to buy each Upgrade. If this could be worked out It would be a win, win for everyone. To my knoledge, they no longer sell Poser 4 anymore do they? If they did, they would be selling a brand new version with a manual in better condition than what I would Have, and I see big discounts on there sales.

I have no problem of them charging me a small processing fee to sell the older outdated versions of Poser. That would be fare.

I completely understand why Software companies are so guarded to protect there product and I agree with them. I will do everything I can to protect that company because I like what they produce. If People pirate there product to often they will go out of buisness and that will kill me and what I use Poser for.