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Subject:Where to order software? From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:48:54 -0500
Karen Kay <karen -at- WORDWRITE -dot- COM> wrote:
>I'm wondering where people order their software from, to
>keep costs down?
Get that academic discount, if you can. Marry or re-marry if you have
to, just to nail it down. :-)
Other than that, one trick is to buy a registerable copy of a software
package at a used computer store. For professional products - especially
Adobe's - the price of buying the used software and upgrading is usually
about one-third to half the price of buying the new package.
--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
(bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com) (604) 421-7189 or 687-2133 X. 269
www.outlawcommunications.com (redesigned and updated 07 Feb 1998)
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