Nisus Sales: I'm including you on this post as I see it as an action
item on your part.
Also, is there any discount for family pack upgrades?
Ben Andrus
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Erik:
It was clear to me it was not a free upgrade, but likely because I
read the newsletter slowly, knowing that I could not download any
time soon with my wimpy 32kb dial-up connection. :-) FWIW, from the
May 11 Newsletter:
The other issue I would like to mention is that Nisus Writer Pro 2
will be a paid upgrade.
The price will be $49 to download the upgrade, and a CD version will
be available for an extra $10 plus shipping.
The full version is $79. There will also be a family pack and
academic pricing.
So, while the information is there, the setup could be a bit
disharmonious, in that instead of writing:
"I regret to have to inform you it is gonna cost this time" it says
"... like to mention . . . paid upgrade."
So Erik, I must say that your impression was not so unreasonable--
indeed the phrase "paid upgrade" certainly sounds, by the past tense
of the verb, that it is already paid for. Perhaps it would not be so
confusing if they used words like Upgrade Fee or Charge.
Also, it explicitly states $49 to _download_ the upgrade, rather than
to _buy_ an upgraded license.
And perhaps worse, indeed, the download page: <http://nisus.com/free/
pro.php> gives absolutely no clue that I can see that there is any
upgrade fee whatsoever. It simply gives a description and the two
download options for PPC and intel. With that, and the "free" hard
coded into the url, why should anyone suspect there would be a cost?
The Nisus folks most certainly opened themselves to misunderstanding
on this one. Why is there not another sentence/paragraph in the
description mentioning the upgrade prices, or explicit link to the
store.
Geoff:
As I read the pricing options, I did not take the $99 for a family
pack to be a (discounted) upgrade price. It's a big discount
compared to buying 3 licenses at $79 each, or even compared to three
upgrades at $49 each-- you get three upgrades for the price of two.
But new purchasers get a much greater discount. It looks to me like
the $99 family pack for three licenses is the price anybody would
pay, and if a single license user wants to get three licenses he pays
another $49 above his single license upgrade fee of $49, which comes
out to nearly the same price. It lists no non-upgrade price for a
family pack. Thus it looks like I get no discount for having already
paid for a family pack of the previous version.
So, my question to you would be, did your purchase _require_ three
license numbers from version 1 to get the family pack at $99, or
could you tell? If so, does anyone have a clue what the price would
be for a first-time purchase of a family pack for NWP 2.0?
Meanwhile I'll wait till the snags are ironed out to upgrade, since I
do not yet see any indications that NWP 2 provides a way yet to have
triple-click text selection and global find string operate consistent
with other Cocoa applications. :-)
Ben Andrus
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On 2011 May 20, Fri, at 8:00 am, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
> Hei Geoff
>
> Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>> At 1:54 PM +0200 20/5/11, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>>> Bob Stern wrote:
>>>> Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>>>>> running NWP 2.0 in demo mode still launches NWP, when i press
>>>>> the browser or mail app button on the keyboard
>>>>
>>>> OS X cannot distinguish different versions of the same app
>>>> because they have the same ID and creator codes. You should
>>>> make a Zip archive of NWP v.1 and trash the original while you
>>>> are testing NWP 2 in demo mode.
>>>
>>> Apart from this I donot have to run NWP 2.0 in demo mode since I
>>> have a registered version of NWP 1.x with serial code. - It's
>>> clearly written on the Nisus webpage that the ver. 2.0 is a free
>>> upgrade to ver. 1.x owners.
>> On the contrary, I'm afraid, Erik, it is clearly written on the
>> Nisus web page that v.2 is a PAID upgrade and the upgrade price is
>> given.
>> You can download the upgrade (they call it an "update" for some
>> reason) and then run it in demo mode. The v.1 registration codes
>> do not work with v.2. Click on the "Purchase update" button and it
>> will take you to a page where you can enter your v.1 registration
>> number and so quality for the upgrade price of (I think) US$49 or
>> thereabouts. (I'm not sure of he single user price as I purchased
>> the family upgrade for US$99.)
>
> Will you admit that what is written on the frontpage http://
> nisus.com/ then is very misunderstandable? '_Download update_' -
> and when yhou do so, you certainly will get the impression that it
> is a _free update_?
>
> And the link Hamid gave surely says _/free/pro.php_ http://
> nisus.com/free/pro.php - not a single word or character is telling
> NOTHING about payment.:-(!
>
> But paid or not paid upgrade or demo or not demo does indeed not
> solve the problems when launching NWP 2.0! - I've checked and re-
> assigned the shortcuts to my browser and mail applications - and
> still NWP 2.0 keeps overruling these settings. - Even deleted
> LaunchServices folder and then again re-assigned shortcuts - still
> NWP 2.0 overrules.:-(!
>
> Cheers, Erik Richard
>
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