"Parallel Market"
ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»
From Andrew Savichev → To All 17 March 1998
Hello, Alex!
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> AS> The answer is - in networks and in particular with the help of the SNS project! SNS removes extra buyers from
AS> the market, primarily lovers of freebies.
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>One thing, there are not so many buyers for software (except for CV, ZH, and similar hits) that there are not so many
>to weed out the “extra” from this number.
Yes, they will not “weed out”. I don’t go to markets anyway (if only because the emulsion
doesn’t “chew” what you sell there, you put it on a CD and people like me
will immediately buy it! :) ). But you wave your hand, “and there are about ten
two virtuals in every city.” But, Alex, “appetite comes with eating.”
Trading is a process with feedback! Buyers need to be attracted and
"fed" :) And in general, EVERYTHING STAYS on trade!
If there is trade, there are professionals, if there is no trade, there are amateurs.
Although of course this is debatable. After all, the authors, like mushrooms after the rain, do not grow,
well, and if the hard makers collapse, then everything will collapse:(
>It’s easier to try to make the software cheaper in some way, so that its price
>begins to suit even the freeloader buyers...
? Can a freeloader be satisfied with a price lower than the minimum available? ;)
What is happening? You sell a product at price X.
A person sent by a pirate from a nearby stall buys it from you.
Your reaction? You say: "I don't know you,get out"
And by what right?
So it turns out that you are digging a hole for yourself and the author, AGAINST YOUR WILL.
And when he breaks it, he will set the price of X-1 and they will take it from him.
Maybe then you should gradually reduce the price?
And since you were the first to start selling, you will eventually earn more than him?
In general, so far today it’s like this bullshit:
the price of the product is determined both by the quality of the product and the quality of the protection.
>This can be achieved by increasing the number of traders who bought the
software from the author.
Yes, but this means that some of the pirates must voluntarily become
traders. What for do they have? wrote.
It turns out to be a vicious circle. Personally, I, as the author, trust you, but knowing that
your goods inevitably go to pirates AGAINST YOUR WILL, I begin
to come up with some other methods of sales.
>As a result, the trader’s distribution costs are reduced, and
>there is an opportunity to sell software cheaper, which is at the same time
>competition for the pirate, given his low price for software.
You have the advantages of the first seller. You must calculate how many
days the SPECIFIC PROTECTION will be broken, do not start selling without good
advertising, so that all your potential buyers are already “drooling”and
"stood in line" and then very clearly tracking the pirate's price, pushing
his prices with lower ones of your own.
Don't be offended, I know that you know all this and even 100 times better than me,
I'm just showing that the authors also understand something about trading :)
>The problem is that there are never many authors, but now let's say there are just
>not enough.
Depends on the size of the fee and stability.
If a person understands that you can make money here, he will work seriously
if he has talent.
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>Sincerely, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.
Sincerely, Andrey Savichev/CGS, coordinator of SpectrumNetSoft
From Alex Letaev → To All 20 March 1998
AS> Depends on the size of the fee and stability.
AS> If a person understands that you can make money here, he will work seriously
AS> if he has talent.
Here I agree with everything. If only it would work to its full potential, it would be
very good.