I got an email for a quote to combine a few older licenses (totalling 15 seats all together) into a single license updated to the latest version, but with 18 seats. I had to run it through a formula we use to caculate these things and got back to them with a number around $3000.
They came back and aske me, what if they just kept it at 15 seats? So I gave them that number. It was less, but not by much.
Then they came back a THIRD time with a bunch of other possible splits and recombinations, which I'm too tired to explain. Let's just say they all resulted in either 15 or 18 seats and cost about the same as quoted before with 18 always costing more than 15. And it took forever to do.
We now have about 8 different quotes for roughly the same thing and not a single one is cheap. Nor does a single one break the "getting more costs more" rule. There is no magic combination they can come up with that will go radically against the reality that it's going to cost them money. If they don't want to spend money, they can just not buy anything. It's not that hard a concept, right?
I swear if I come back tomorrow and find that they want another quote, I'm tacking on another $500 and will add $500 each time thereafter until they stop with the quote requests.
Agh.
They came back and aske me, what if they just kept it at 15 seats? So I gave them that number. It was less, but not by much.
Then they came back a THIRD time with a bunch of other possible splits and recombinations, which I'm too tired to explain. Let's just say they all resulted in either 15 or 18 seats and cost about the same as quoted before with 18 always costing more than 15. And it took forever to do.
We now have about 8 different quotes for roughly the same thing and not a single one is cheap. Nor does a single one break the "getting more costs more" rule. There is no magic combination they can come up with that will go radically against the reality that it's going to cost them money. If they don't want to spend money, they can just not buy anything. It's not that hard a concept, right?
I swear if I come back tomorrow and find that they want another quote, I'm tacking on another $500 and will add $500 each time thereafter until they stop with the quote requests.
Agh.
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