[PEDA] Antwort: moving to ad6

[Harry Selfridge]

Brad,

Hence my use of quotes around "special pricing".

Sincerely,
Harry Selfridge
VP Engineering
Encore Engineering Services and Products
Temecula, CA

At 01:12 PM 11/20/2006, you wrote:
>Harry,
>         The way that one could read the information pointed to with 
> your link, would suggest that P99SE customers would be eligible for 
> the special pricing. The information doesn't list any other earlier 
> version as being "retired" and therefore they may not qualify as 
> "retired". (Yes I recall that the user did state they had an 
> unopened P99SE version. I'm just playing devil's advocate and 
> pointing out possible limitations of the information supplied 
> through the link.)
>
>         It kind of depends on the precise interpretation of 
> "retired". Then just to confuse things further, they also throw in 
> the term "legacy" in a few spots, with no definition nor example 
> supplied. Leaves them 'options' to exercise at their discretion in 
> any particular instance? Maybe the "special pricing" is only $100 
> off the regular retail price?
>
>         As far as Gisbert's original comment that Altium had done 
> away with any special upgrade pricing for P99SE or older, that was 
> actually started by Altium reps/sales people themselves. Obviously 
> though, they must keep backtracking on that concept. I had been 
> told the same thing by Altium employees several times in the last 
> couple of years when they were having their semi-annual Fire Sales. 
> I even have a quote from just over a year ago, quoting that after 
> the special June 'Fire Sale' the pricing would change to full 
> retail new purchase pricing ($11,000 USD), if we were to upgrade 
> after June 30th 2005.
>
>Sincerely,
>Brad Velander
>Senior PCB Designer
>Northern Airborne Technology
>#14 - 1925 Kirschner Road,
>Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
>tel (250) 763-2232 ext. 225
>fax (250) 762-3374
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harry Selfridge [mailto:harrys at encoreengineering.com]
>Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 9:34 AM
>To: Protel EDA Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Antwort: moving to ad6
>
>
>If you look on the following web page, you will
>see that owners of previous versions of Protel
>are entitled to "special pricing" on the newest version:
>http://www.altium.com/Community/LegacyCustomers/
>
>
>
>
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