| Re: Student version of IDL [message #3999 is a reply to message #3852] |
Mon, 10 April 1995 00:00   |
gurman
Messages: 82
Registered: August 1992
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In article <3mah2n$2h3@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, kyoakita@aol.com (KyoAkita)
wrote:
> :What I meant was that there is no point in forgetting civility
> :even if the price is not right for you.
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> That doesn't apply to a direct oder system.
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> Simple fact for you, sir; Several years ago, RSI was selling
> their products to us for the same price as in the U.S.
Several years ago, $1 > 200 Yen.
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> I don't think I am nagging at RSI for what they cannot do. They CAN
> change their policy and distribute their products for foreign customers
> as they were doing before.
I'm not trying to excuse the pricing of RSI products in Japan (my
understanding is that the markup is >= 100%), but in fairness, it should
be pointed out that for a small company such as RSI, maintaining tariff,
customs, &c. procedures for almost any foreign country, much less for one
with so many bureaucratic barriers to foreign products as Japan, is a very
heavy cost and ofetn results in dealyed products shipments and frustrated
(perhaps even angry, in western countries at least) customers.
Thus, RSI has distributors for the UK, for France, for Germany and
other places in western Europe, as well as for Japan. You have the freedom
of choice to feel screwed because the cost from the local distributor is
so high, or privileged because IDL and ENVI are available for sale and
support in your country. Or perhaps a bit of both....
Besides, I doubt RSI is seeing any of the recent Yen/dollar ratio
change as its profit. All that goes to the distributor, I suspect.
Best wishes,
Joe Gurman
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Joseph B. Gurman / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Solar Data Analysis Center / Code 682 / Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov
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