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Working Stiff 2013-03-20 09:48
I'd love to have three monitors on my computer and would gladly pay $20 US to do it if I didn't have to buy 100 licenses to do so. It's not like the pricing is that much better so that anyone person or company will buy more so they can save more if they don't really need more licenses.
This is the same mindset you see at big grocery stores when they run a special price if you but 10 of an item that will each last you a month; in this case the product is software and it should last years - at least until a similar application is bundled in one of the many operating systems now out there.
Again, volume discounts benefit the rich and any company that offers these kinds of promotions are not really thinking of the end user consumer... I'll vote with my dollar and for now... as much as I love the product being offer, I'll hang on to my ballow
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David 2013-03-21 09:19
Huh?
What does having 3 monitors on your desk
have to do with buying 100 licenses?
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Alex 2013-03-22 04:37
Well, he actually tries to explain that he feels $39.00 is too expensive for a single license.
In his view, $20.00 is a fair price for a single end-user license, but that price is only possible if he buys 100 licenses (=bulk discount).
I do agree that $39.00 is a bit steep considering these economic times, but then again: it's a "nice to have" product opposed to a "must have"....
Alex
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David 2013-03-22 11:44
Oh.
If we do some math on a fake setup, say each monitor is $200 (a bit high probably, but not unheard of) and Ultramon is $39.
3 monitors = 3x$200 = $600 + $39 = $639 total
So, OP only has $620 and he's complaining that Ultramon is priced $19 too high for him to consider making the purchase?
I thought the OP was displaying his disdain for the economics of discounts-for-high-quantity purchases *when applied to software*.
Discounts on large commercial purchases does NOT mean that 100s or 1000s of users all get to call for support. The site license usually means the on-site IT personnel must handle problems, and it is only the professional on-site IT people that can get real support from the vendor. Lots of companies do this. That's one reason why discounts are given for large #s of licenses.
Anyways, OP seems ignorant on the economics and the incentives of what a commercial license really means, but hey, maybe that extra $19 really does break his budget.
Bummer.
DisplayFusion is $25 for a Standard license, and $35 for a Personal Home License.
Complaining about $39 for Ultramon is pointless without better context. He should at least complain about something Ultramon is lacking (of which there are several) and compare that to, say, features of DisplayFusion. That's called constructive criticism.
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