Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?

[john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)]

>Presumably ACT is presently guaranteed that every boxed set they ship
>goes to a genuine customer who pays money.

>In a retail environment they would have to do with "returns" and "credits"
>and "shrinkage".  I don't know who gets caught holding the bag full of
>V.n boxed sets when V.n+1 comes out, but right now ACT does not have
>to deal with retailer animosity.

I'm not suggesting that they ship to retailers - all they have to do
is sell it on the net. If I ask sales@gnat.com if they can sell me a
boxed copy of their product (similar to the one I saw on a colleagues
desk), I don't really expect to be told "no, go away, you can only get
that with a support contract for 10 seats" or whatever. All I'm
suggesting is that ACT say "Yes, that will be $100.00 + shipping - you
are aware that you do not get telephone support etc etc?" and I say
yes, that's fine, here is my credit card number!

Anyway, for what it's worth, I sent a message to sales@gnat.com
earlier in the week asking about Windows CE (as suggested by Robert
Dewar) and have heard absolutely nothing - so that's not very
impressive is it?