Comments on: Spanning Sync officially released, users cry foul at pricing

By: KE Liew

KE Liew — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:20:33 +0000

Totally insane! Even Bandwagon beats this at price and ‘rich’ functionality, though two different products.

These guys (or just one?) just wants extra cash and don’t really care for the users. heh :/

By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:59:50 +0000

If it really is too high then the free market of supply and demand will do its thing and they will have to revise their expectations.
It’s all about elasticity of demand. If there are 2000 people willing to pay the $65 they make $130,000. To make that same money by selling it at $20, they need 6,500 payments.

I think they would make more money by flocking it at $15, just because people can justify an impulsive buy at that point. $65 is just way off the charts and I’ll be damned if I ever pay that price.

But hey, it’s their product andthey are overly ambitious about it thinking they’ll sale 15,000 copie at $65 and make $1mm.
Yeah, right

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:02:11 +0000

65 dollars to much?? I really don’t get why they should have to give it away for free?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:38:34 +0000

Ditto Kuswanto

I checked it week after week after week eagerly waiting for it but no freakin way am I paying that much for it.

By: Kuswanto

Kuswanto — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:45:21 +0000

Yes i was excited to about the one oh release. But after seeing the price tag… OMG no way i am gonna use this.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:35:17 +0000

I was ready to sign up. Then I thought about what new possibilities would be in Leopard. Even so I was ready. Then I had horrible experiences with time zone, daylight saving time, problems with recurring appointments. I gave up trying to use it and not just use gcal.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:11:05 +0000

Yep. I was vert excited about Spanning Sync, and came out somewhat disappointed by the beta – but still, I was actually planning on purchasing it this week.

Not going to happen. Yojimbo, which is about 100x more valuable, cost me something like 30 bucks and I’m going to pay 65 dollars for something that syncs my calendar? It’s a bit too easy to subscribe to a GoogleCalendar in iCal and just use GoogleCal as my primary calendar (or, like I do, 30 boxes.)

Sucks to see a company do this. I can only hope it bites them in the ass and they re-think this decision.

By: Phil Bowell

Phil Bowell — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:27:43 +0000

I was a user of SpanningSync as well, but the price tag completely turned me away. But not just that, the complete lack of understanding from the developers is more worrying. I’ve read many well thought out and constructive points made by users and the developers just seem to be thinking totally unrealistically!