[EuroPython] Fw: becomming a member of share-it

[Tom Deprez]

Hi,

Here the reply of ShareIt. I'm not sure if this is the best option for our
pre-registration.
I don't know if it is interesting for the short period of our 'product' ie
the pre-registration.

Comments please, thanks!

Tom.


----- Original Message -----
From: "shareit sales" <sales@shareit.com>
To: "Tom Deprez" <tom@aragne.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: becomming a member of share-it


> Dear Mr. Deprez,
>
> Thank you for your for your interest in ShareIt!. We welcome your
questions
> and are interested in learning more about your company, and how we may be
> able to help you with the sale of your product.
>
> Initially we must mention that ShareIt! is, by definition, a service
> designed predominantly for shareware authors to distribute and sell their
> software electronically over the Internet. We have, however, provided
> service for a few non-software merchants in the past with varying degrees
> of success.
>
> In order to minimize any potential problems that both ShareIt! and the
> non-software merchants have experienced in the past, we would like to
> communicate some of the limitations and conditions of using our service
for
> products other than software.
>
> Because the product that you would like to list is not electronic
software,
> we cannot make any adaptations to our electronic notification system to
> specify your product as a non-software product.
>
> This is significant because the text message to your customers notifying
> them of their purchase instructs them specifically toward the registration
> of software. We expect this could lead to confusion for your customers.
>
> If you explain on your web site, very precisely, that you are using
> ShareIt! - A shareware registration service, to accept orders for your
> company their confusion should be minimized.
> Additionally, we ask that you also make special note on your web site that
> ShareIt! will bill their credit card through our European office. Their
> credit card statement will display the billing item as "www.shareit.com
> Koln DE."
>
> Again, this measure helps to reduce confusion for your customers, while
> also reducing your risk of chargebacks from customers that do not
> understand a billing from a service primarily devoted to electronic
shareware.
> ShareIt! has a variety of delivery options in practice for our software
> developers. After a payment has been processed, we will deliver one of the
> following message types to your customer, by email, to complete your
> customer's order in our system.
>
> - A license key from a generator or key list.
> - The full version of software as a temporary download link.
> - An attachment to an email message of 700 kB or less.
> - The full version of a software as a temporary download link as well as a
>    license key from a generator or key list.
> - A simple notification message that will notify the customer to expect
> delivery
>    of their product either
> - within 48 hours, for electronic deliveries,
> - within 2 weeks when the product is delivered by postal mail.
>
> Additionally, a simple notification email message is also sent to you to
> notify you that an order has been placed for your customer, and that we
> have delivered the information you have instructed us to, or to notify you
> to deliver the product yourself if you choose to deliver your own products
> via postal mail or electronically.
>
> If you find these conditions agreeable, and can choose one of our delivery
> options to help you with the sale of your product, we would welcome your
> response.
>
> Finally, before we can reach a decision to accept your non-software
> product, we would like to ask for some additional information from you.
> Could you please provide us with your current monthly sales level and a
> projection of future sales?
>
> Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nina Breuer
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> ShareIt! - your global partner for selling shareware
> http://www.shareit.com
> ShareIt! - a service of element 5
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> At 12:17 AM 3/2/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear,
> >
> >We would like to use your product, but we don't know if the service we
like
> >to offer to our web-visitors is available through ShareIt, since we
aren't
> >selling shareware programs.
> >We're organizing a congress (www.europython.org) and would like to offer
> >people the change to order online tickets for the congress.
> >Since this isn't a type of shareware programs, we wonder if the service
(ie
> >registration and buying tickets to our website visitors) is possible with
> >ShareIt.
> >If so, then what are the costs behind all this?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Tom Deprez
>