I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing pricing

[Mark Southee]

I have embarked on a project to source a cms vendor for my company.
SiberLogic have been one of those I've looked at. I registered and was
then able to view their pricing details. I've not seen any more garbage
try to reach my inbox than before. The majority of other vendors seem to
want to have a sales person call before giving out pricing information.

I know which approach I prefer.

Mark  
-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+mark.southee=surfcontrol.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+mark.southee=surfcontrol.com at lists.frameusers.co
m] On Behalf Of Daniel Emory
Sent: 11 May 2006 18:22
To: Framers List; Framers SGML List; Free Framers List
Subject: I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing
pricing

Yeserday, Siberlogic sent to the lists an announcement of a new CMS
product that integrates FrameMaker. I was acutely interested. The
details of the product seemed a bit light, but I proceeded anyway to
look at the pricing, which, often, gives you a handle on the scope and
breadth of a product. But, to see the pricing, I was required to fill
out a registration form, which I refused to do for the obvious danger
that the information I provided would be used in ways I would not
countenance

I got an email back from Siberlogic inviting me to complete the
registration form, which means they had captured my email address. I
replied by demanding that they remove my email address from their
database. 

Siberlogic complied, and explained that they require registration
because of experiences in the past with competitors. That seems pretty
lame to me because, obviously, any competitor could easily disguise a
pricing probe.

Those of you who also object to a requirement for providing personal and
job-related information before being allowed to look at product pricing
might be interested in joining an effort to stop this practice.







Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
<danemory7224 at sbcglobal.net>
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