CompuServe Messages

>Do you have an educational discount program? Also, what is your ordering >procedure? Are you selling only through dealers or also selling direct to the >end user? We generally don't offer discounts unless on the larger machines where the prices are higher. Our prices for things like AmigaDos are as low as it can go for now though, so essentially a discount is already worked in. Since we are derived from AT&T's cfront C++, we need to contend with a bunch of licensing and royalty issues and quite frankly we walk away with very little on the $250 ($20-50 depending upon the exact port believe it or not). These means will sell direct 9x% of the time and single copies to dealers will not be discounted. Our ordering procedure suffers somewhat from this situation as well as we can't afford to chase down even well intentioned customers (we used to spend more on long distance calls and mail than we got in profit since some customers were going to pay, they just wanted to wait 9 months! ;-}) Given that, ordering is as follows: You may mail in a personal check, company check, or money order upon which we typically ship out the order the same day it is received. The other choice is COD whereas we must ask that personal and company checks be certified.