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**HAL9000** · 05-05-2002, 03:18 PM

What I simply do with my dishonest competition is to educate the user that comes into my shop. Never directly badmouth the competition as it makes yourself look bad. Educate them in how little it actually costs. For example, the fines of getting busted with pirated software VS actually buying a legal copy. The cost of running that old pirated Norton and having to pay you to clean up the system VS puchasing the up to date product. Software can be expensive, but service and fines can be even more expensive.

05-05-2002, 03:18 PM	#6
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	What I simply do with my dishonest competition is to educate the user that comes into my shop. Never directly badmouth the competition as it makes yourself look bad. Educate them in how little it actually costs. For example, the fines of getting busted with pirated software VS actually buying a legal copy. The cost of running that old pirated Norton and having to pay you to clean up the system VS puchasing the up to date product. Software can be expensive, but service and fines can be even more expensive. __________________ -At Ford, quality is job #1, job #2 is making them explode. ~Norm MacDonald, SNL News -Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me... taking the glide path instead.