Weird Linotype pricing

Started by frailer, October 02, 2012, 01:47:23 AM

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frailer

OK, I get the email newsletter. Up comes an offer; a new Avenir combo, a certain number for purchase, at US$39-00, 'x' number for sale. Decreasing numbers left, which you can view online to see if there are some left.
On impulse, I decide to run through to Checkout. The following email Pastes will reveal the story. I know Aussie Diggers used to fill their 25 Pounder breeches with garbage and fire it over to the German lines at the Siege of Tobruk, but can't they let bygones be bygones?   :sad:

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Hi,

My conversion from US$39.00 to Australian Dollars is AU$37.33. In the Checkout, the amount is AU$62.43. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Best regards,

Paul Kafoops

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Dear Mr. (Kafoops),

thank you very much for your email.

No, you are not - we have different prices in different countries.

Best regards


Jens ******

Linotype Support

--------------- Original Message ---------------
From: Paul Kafoops [email]
Sent: 28.09.2012 00:47
To: info@linotype.com
Subject: Cost of Avenir offer in AU$ [DE]

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Joe

The price I see for the Avenir font pack is $93.00 but maybe I'm not looking at the right thing.
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frailer

Not enough info before, sorry. It was a 36 hour, set-number sell-off. When they sold 'em all, that was it.
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gnubler

People actually pay for fonts?

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So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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Farabomb

My clients sure as hell don't.
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Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
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frailer

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t-pat

I have at least one client that does, a textbook publisher. Or, at least I *assume* they pay for them, since they WON'T F*CKIN' GIVE THEM TO ME due to "licensing restrictions" or something   :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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