From anotherscott@hotmail.com Wed Aug 25 17:50:25 2010
Subject:Re: Epoch

One last thing about the demo program idea... The first batch of demos sent out would obviously have to be previously unused. If, say, 95% of the people who try it decide they want to buy it, and they get a discount for keeping the one they were sent, and they see (and are told) that it was, in fact, a new unit (not one that had previously been used for demo purposes), they will probably keep the "demo" which is in fact a new unit with a $100 discount. If 95% of the people are happy with it, you'll have to send out 100 units before you have even 5 returned units that can be sent out to other people. Mostly it really is a vehicle to sell the units. You're not going to suddenly have this huge inventory of beat up models. (Unless, of course, people don't buy them, in which case you have bigger problems.)