correction for Bob Kondner

[ta...@listserver.pads.com]

Hey Bob,

We recently discussed the Altium Designer pricing. You were actually correct in the $6500.00 pricing. The Altium website is so not clear.

Basically, the price is correct, but they neglect to tell you that to get the package at $4995.00 or what ever it is, you must get the maint. at +$1500.00

Of Course I explained to the guy that the web site is very misleading.

Scott
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[Austin Franklin]

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure you can REQUIRE someone to purchase additional items...like
maintenance. It's typically called "tying", and "tying" is illegal. If
somehow what they are doing isn't "tying", then I don't know if it's legit
or not.

You can do a web search for "tying" and see for your self if it seems
applicable in this case.

Regards,

Austin

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From: myid...@gmail.com ta...@listserver.pads.com
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:21:56 -0800
To: ta...@listserver.pads.com
Subject: correction for Bob Kondner

Hey Bob,

Scott
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[ta...@listserver.pads.com]

I didn't get into the details about that.

Scott
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Austin Franklin <ta...@listserver.pads.com> wrote:

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure you can REQUIRE someone to purchase additional items...like
maintenance.  It's typically called "tying", and "tying" is illegal.  If
somehow what they are doing isn't "tying", then I don't know if it's legit
or not.

You can do a web search for "tying" and see for your self if it seems
applicable in this case.

Regards,

Austin

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:21:56 -0800
To: ta...@listserver.pads.com
Subject: correction for Bob Kondner

Hey Bob,

We recently discussed the Altium Designer pricing. You were actually correct
in the $6500.00 pricing. The Altium website is so not clear.

Basically, the price is correct, but they neglect to tell you that to get
the package at $4995.00 or what ever it is, you must get the maint. at
+$1500.00

Of Course I explained to the guy that the web site is very misleading.

Scott
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[Patrick Corbin]

I'm pretty sure they can't require you to purchase maintenance as a requirement of purchase price (in the USA, anyway).

 

I'm pretty kinda sure that is illegal if they are bundling it that way and you can not buy a seat for

5K without maintenance. I'll be finding out Q1 2011 as we are going to purchase a seat for evaluation (I think).

 

Patrick