Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nbires!ncar!oddjob!sphinx!ogil From: ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Wesley Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Technical word processing Keywords: FWP Message-ID: <4407@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 03:51:52 GMT References: <985@actnyc.UUCP> <987@actnyc.UUCP> Reply-To: ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Wesley Harding) Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc. Lines: 33 In article <987@actnyc.UUCP> rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer) writes: >I just called up a mail/phone order software house which had the best >price on FWP ($225) I've seen so far. A rather snotty salesperson told >me they wouldn't sell it because it has too many bugs. Anybody like >to comment? >-- >The Foundation for Unmitigated Sillyness uunet!actnyc!rmf >Department of Redundancy Department >City of Kansas City, Kansas First of all, I haven't seen any bugs in the released version of FWP, and I noticed few in the pre-release "demo" version given out at the January MacWorld Expo. Second, I work for a dealer and I can tell you that if they're selling for $225 their margin must be in the range of a few cents to a few dollars. Most mail-order houses are listing it for about $275. Unless their supplier is insane I can't see how they can afford to sell so low. I hate to be uncharitable, but my interpretation is that they found out how much FWP cost them after they placed the ad, and this "too many bugs" business is just a convenient story to avoid selling at a loss. But then, maybe they just have gremlins in their test machines. I think FWP is great; I'm using it for a several-hundred-page history and it's doing fine. A wonderful product. -- Brian "My middle name is Wendell" Ogilvie ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu "Home of the Goofy Nicknames" "Cartesianism is the most popular `popular science' ever created." --Noel Swerdlow