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It is strange that CMA's upgrade cost would be $115 instead of $59. I think if he
called Equis and noted the discrepancy, Equis would sell it to him for $59.
There's no point in upgrading to MS v7.01 anyway. From what I've read in this
group, it has a number of bugs that will be addressed in v7.02. The labor
involved in uninstalling v7.01 and then reinstalling v7.02 is not worth it. I
don't know about the rest of you, but I've grown a bit tired of this game. I'd
rather simply wait for a bug-free package. The entire software industry has been
around for many years and there's no excuss for forcing users to use bug-prone
software. I no longer want to deal with bugs. I want to use my computer what it
was intended for. Namely: to make me rich. ;^) I called Equis about this and
they said they would extend the offer if v7.02 came out after June 30. You should
call Equis and make sure they will extend the offer for you too.
As long as MS v7.02 is fully compatible with QP v2.1 or v2.2, I'll be happy. I
don't expect to have any problems using the two packages together. BTW, I have
not upgraded to QP v2.2 for the same reason. There are (or were) numerous bugs in
the new QP v2.2 package. From what I've read in that group, Quotes-Plus is
dealing with the bugs with each new v2.2 build. In a few months the bugs should
be all gone.
Daniel.
"Ananda P. Bhaumik" wrote:
> Dear list members
> How come CMA got an offer for USd 115 and I got an offer for only Usd 59?
> I wrote to Equis to explain but have not received a reply yet.
> I have been a registered user of MS since version 1.0 and I agree that the
> DOS version upto 4.0 (I skipped 4.5 and upgraded to the next version) was
> great. But I like 6.52 too.
> What I do not understand is that I was given an offer to upgrade for 800
> odd Dollars late last year and then now it is USd 59.
> Has Equis gone mad or is it the business practice of Reuters.
> Equis under Achelis was as great company. If he is listening and he is
> still in charge let him not get swayed by the business practices of the big
> boys. They do not always know what is the best and what is right.
> Reuters had tried very hard to dislodge Teletrac from the financial
> institution trading rooms for many years with their product developed out
> of Australia (I forget the name). They used to have heavy promotions and
> give it away free. It did not work. I have seen MS RT running on Reuters.
> It is ag ood product though I must say that their formula language still
> does not have the power of Supercharts and the ease of Snap/Computrac now
> known as Smartrader.
> Coming back to the original issue, if Equis is listening, please let us
> know why this discriminatory practice in pricing?
> .
> At 01:01 PM 5/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Just got the flyer for MS 7 upgrade for $115 including $15 shipping (who are
> >they kidding, shipping is at most $4)
> > The only major difference I can find between version 7 and 6.5 is the
> > Data On
> >Demand.
> > Also I hardly ever used version 6.5 as only version 4.5 has the macros.
> >Equis never figured out how to put the macros back into the product after
> >version 4.5.
> >Equis added bells and whistles but took out the basic essentials like AutoRun
> >Macros, so the program got bigger and less useful.
> > The flyer also implies you have to get data from Reuters Datalink and
> > pay for
> >it after a month. So what is the point of Data on Demand if you have to
> >pay for
> >the data on an ongoing basis.
> >Is the data really on demand or do you have to maintain a paid subscription
> >forever to keep the data "on demand?" Equis purposely leaves that unclear in
> >the flyer.
> > CMA
> >
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