[mitchell_pgh]

I am in the process of purchasing Quark (No need to make this in to a Quark vs. InDesign as I use both) and discovered that JourneyEd was offering Quark 6.1 for $249.98. (they only sell to educational institutions which I'm buying for)

HOW THE #$%^ can they do that? The price at the Apple Educational Store is $799!

I realize I probably just purchased the upgrade, but then I found another listing "Quark Xpress Passport v6 Single User Upgrade Mac" for $179...

I'm not paying for it, so I thought I would try and like the cheap guy and buy from here...

Crazy!

I've purchased from them before and other then a broken monitor (Dead on arrival) which they didn't take back (I had to send it to the manufacturer) there software has been OK.

Anyone else use them?

[-Q-]

I'd used them back in the day to get photoshop or something. It came thru just fine as I recall.

And they can offer those prices b/c that's what Quark sells them to them for. It's a nice little racket b/c the physical cost of producing software is only a few dollars (less now that printed manuals have gone by the wayside) so companies can sell it for outrageous margins.

[CatOne]

Pfft. I wouldn't use Quark, even if it were given to me for free. If you don't have a customer demanding you use Quark, you know what the alternative is

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by CatOne:
Pfft. I wouldn't use Quark, even if it were given to me for free. If you don't have a customer demanding you use Quark, you know what the alternative is

I'm buying it because I keep getting the standard "and we need you to use Cork!"

[voodoo]

Originally posted by CatOne:
Pfft. I wouldn't use Quark, even if it were given to me for free. If you don't have a customer demanding you use Quark, you know what the alternative is

Pfft. I wouldn't use InDesign, even if it were given to me for free. If you don't have a customer demanding you use InDesign, you know what the alternative is

<sigh>