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Ah, I remember when seeing your software on the shelf of Egghead meant you’d made it. Of course we had to give up 50% of revenues, and then pay them tens or hu
by valuearb 6y ago
Ah, I remember when seeing your software on the shelf of Egghead meant you’d made it.
Of course we had to give up 50% of revenues, and then pay them tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of that for “co-marketing”, all while spending $10 a unit on packaging and disk duplication, while providing an expensive phone support team.
I guess I don’t miss it that much, come on Apple take your 30%!
- GeekyBear 6y agoIt's odd to me that people seem to have completely forgotten what the experience of selling your software in brick and mortar stores was like. Most of the time, you also had to work through a software distributor middle man (who took a cut) because the large chains wouldn't deal with you directly.
- valuearb 6y agoYea, I forgot about Ingram MicroD. They took 50%, and when it came time to get paid, “We don’t cut checks on Tuesday, only on Monday” “Oh I know what she said about cutting checks on Monday, but Sarah is out till Thursday” “Oh, Sarah is back but we only cut checks on Mondays” “I don’t know who told you we cut checks on Monday, we only do that on Friday. Sarah? Sarah doesn’t work here any more”