P3 Price Increase
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Ronald WinterMember for 23 years 9 months
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It appears that Primavera intends to kill off P3 using economics. Primavera hasn’t invested a cent in the P3 product since 2003 but they are looking for a way to kill the product and making the price out-of-bounds is politically easier than breaking their promise in 2005 to "Sell and support P3 as long as the public wants to buy it."
As of July 1, 2007 Primavera is raising the price of P3 from $4000 (US) to $5040 (US). This is a 26% rate increase. I believe that they have already reduced the Dealer Discount to 2% on P3 sales. This means that your Primavera Rep cannot even cover the cost of accepting a credit card charge for the transaction without losing money.
It is clear to me that Primavera does not to actually intend to sell P3 at that price (and at a dealer loss.) They just want you to stop buying P3 so that you can start buying P5.
P.S. I also hear that P6 is being released on July 1, 2007 and that there will be a price change there as well.
As of July 1, 2007 Primavera is raising the price of P3 from $4000 (US) to $5040 (US). This is a 26% rate increase. I believe that they have already reduced the Dealer Discount to 2% on P3 sales. This means that your Primavera Rep cannot even cover the cost of accepting a credit card charge for the transaction without losing money.
It is clear to me that Primavera does not to actually intend to sell P3 at that price (and at a dealer loss.) They just want you to stop buying P3 so that you can start buying P5.
P.S. I also hear that P6 is being released on July 1, 2007 and that there will be a price change there as well.
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Oldest first- 0Alexandre Faulx-Briole ·Hi all,
I have just received a pro forma invoice from the french PAR, P3 is now selling at 5,800 € ex VAT, and I was given a wonderful 5% exceptionnal discount!
P3 is even more expensive in euros than in US $,as at today’s rate 5,000 $ would be 3,850 €.
Is Primavera working now for MS?
Alexandre - 0Se de Leon ·It’s purely economics. I guess because they can not achieve their expected sales volume for P5, they increased the price of their one of the most or maybe the most saleable product.
Proof of the matter, P5 has only 18% user share in planningplanet.
It’s like shooting your own foot, isn’t it?
Cheers,
SE - 0Mimoune Djouallah ·escander
it’s typical in IT industry to charge European more then American, just see the case for game consoles ( xbox360 , ps3) and video games ;)
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note to escander: the last week i was in palm beach, hell, who said that Algerian girl are not sweet, but unfortunately i’ll go back to destert soon.
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