(November 18, 2014 at 9:25 am)alpha male Wrote:(November 14, 2014 at 10:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote: No not really.OK, thought I'd give you a shot.
A company allows a free download of a product, and asks you to pay for it if you like it.
You say these payments would be donations, not sales.
The difference that I see is that, in a sale, the person does not get the product until they pay. In this scenario, the person already has the product before they pay. You are therefore calling it a donation rather than a sale, and conceding that "Obviously this would result in lost sales, because they wouldn't be making sales at all."
It's not a question of whether payment will come before or after, it is a question of whether payment is necessary for the package. Such is a sale, whether it take decades to process, or becomes vaporware.
Quote:By that logic, anyone who pirates a product to try it out, then subsequently pays for it, is likewise making a donation, and sales are lost.
You can't lose a sale that was never had... simply, there was no sale, only a service freely offered.
Tipping your waiter is not the same as paying for your meal. You can optionally not tip a shite waiter... but you can rarely refund a shite meal. A good waiter one shows their appreciation for by the size of the tip they leave them... a good meal's appreciation is shown by return trips to that restaurant to trade that $9.85 in your pocket for their brownies.
A sale is a trade. A donation is a gift.
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