RE: [cobalt-users] OS Commerce PKG

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Any way, is my package worth $99 bucks?  Depends on what your 
> time is worth.
> 
> Yes, osCommerce is easy to setup as Rick Ewart has pointed out.  But
> considering the average RaQ user not a *nix Guru, and it may 
> take them up to
> a few hours to setup, if they never did.  It is worth it.  
> Once this package
> is installed, and if you host like 30 people, who all want 
> it.  You have it
> setup, and working in like 2 minutes, for all 3 people.  Now, 
> if you install
> it by hand, and get good.  Think maybe like 20 minutes each install.
> Multiply that times 30 people.  That is 10hrs of your life 
> that you just
> wasted on other things.  Now, is $99 worth 10 hours?  You bet 
> your ass is
> it.

Brian - 

Just FWIW, I wasn't attacking your system, so sorry if you took it that
way. Nor was I trying to say it cost too much. It seems to me that you
did something and if someone things its worthwhile to them, they should
go for it. I did that for the SPAM Filter from Stauber. The GUI
integration to allow me to pass admin to my clients was worth the $ to
me.

I simply happened to see the thread, had recently typed up the
instructions, so I figured I would pass them along. This list gave me a
lot over the years, figured I would try to give back.

Also, the poster was concerned about "throwing away" money. If they took
the time to install it themselves, they would get pretty familiar with
the product and be in a good position to determine whether $99 would
make their lives considerably easier or not.

I would think the "average" person would do it once, and if they had to
do a bunch of them, or were looking for this to be a new "niche", they
would then look towards your product.

Also, not sure how difficult it is for you to integrate
updates/upgrades, but I am pretty impressed with the collection of
contributions and stuff that Ian has integrated into his snapshot. Might
want to take a look at it. As he has done all the integration of the
contributions, it might make dropping your part "on top" easier.

Take care.
Rick