Re: Opinion yours ... which is better, a "demo" or a "money-back guarantee?"

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From: J French
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:00

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Time out is really annoying - you download something and clutter your
system with timed out utilities.

Bizarre behaviour like scrambling data is plain destructive

Money back guarantees are fine, but I would always want to evaluate
the software before paying for it.

Nag screens strike me as a good idea - the software works - you can
use it and basically pay to speed things up.

Tempting greyed out options also strike me as a good idea.

As do reasonable restrictions - say a maximum size of a database.

Personally I reckon that the problem breaks into two parts :-

1) Getting the App in front of a user
2) Getting them to pay you money

Any restrictions that reduce distribution are effectively shooting
oneself in the foot.

Giving everything away is shooting oneself in the wallet.

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