Steve,

>.... our next move is to sell it for a huge discount <

Seems to me that if the state agencies will only buy from a corporation that wants to sell to them for $500,000 then maybe your first move shouldn't be a discount, but instead raise your price to be closer to the competition, but still underbidding them ... say $450,000.

~~Bonnie



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>CMMS, ERP or EAM. I am not sure I am still learning all the holes in Maximo
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>and yes I have had 3-5 state agencies express a great desire for our product, the "powers that be" say "well they want $20,000 and this corp wants $500,000, the corp must be better" so we get passes up time and time again, our next move is to sell it for a huge discount, less then $5,000 just to get that first sale (credibility).
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