11-09-2003, 09:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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A Harebrained Idea To Get Textmaker Cheap!
http://www.softmaker.de/index,en.htm
SoftMaker will be offering TextMaker for just $11.11 (US$ and Euro$) on November 11 at 11:11AM German (+1 GMT) time for just 24 hours. Don't wait around though - once they sell 1,111 copies, the deal is off. Normally, TextMaker is $49.95.
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11-09-2003, 11:03 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 36
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Am I the only one who finds this slightly creepy/weird, particularly from a German company? The Armistice ending WWI was famously signed at 11am on November 11, 1918, and some objected to the stunt of letting more people be killed on the battlefield to "hit" the 11am 11/11 time. And of course that armistice of German humiliation laid the seeds for a violent century...
Whatever, not many WWI vets left, let alone among PPC users...
-- Opus
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11-09-2003, 11:39 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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I'm going to try and buy it at this cost. I don't do enough writing on the PPC to justify the $50 regular price. But $11, I'm gonna do it.
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11-09-2003, 11:51 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by opus
Am I the only one who finds this slightly creepy/weird, particularly from a German company? The Armistice ending WWI was famously signed at 11am on November 11, 1918, and some objected to the stunt of letting more people be killed on the battlefield to "hit" the 11am 11/11 time. And of course that armistice of German humiliation laid the seeds for a violent century...
Whatever, not many WWI vets left, let alone among PPC users...
-- Opus
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There are so many dates in Germany's awful history that people remember, it's kind of hard to find some date that is not tainted. For example, November 9 marks the opening of the Berlin Wall, but also is the date of Reichskristallnacht, or Reichsprogromnacht, as it is called now. Had we had know before (November 11 is not a "special", "marker" date in the collective Geman memory; we remember the dead on All Saints Day), we would have chosen another date.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
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11-10-2003, 01:32 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,878
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Yes, the authors are from Germany...
But just remember this: If they wanted to pick a "creepy" date, I doubt it would have been a date in history where a German loss was commemorated...
Please, this is a great software product, instead of trying to read things into this, take adantage of a great offer...
Steven Cedrone
Community Moderator
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"My eyes are rolling back in my head so far I can see my grey matter bubbling and frothing from reading this thread....bleh." JD
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11-10-2003, 02:16 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 267
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the pricing still said 49.95 so I hope they are not ripping ppl off I said I wanted the $11.11 deal so I hope it works :?:
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11-10-2003, 02:18 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Originally Posted by rmasinag
the pricing still said 49.95 so I hope they are not ripping ppl off I said I wanted the $11.11 deal so I hope it works :?:
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:confused totally: The sale hasn't started yet...
--janak
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11-10-2003, 02:44 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,639
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For anyone who does not have TM, it's worth getting up at 5.00 Eastern Time to get that price.
What Softmaker should do as well is try to make a bundling deal with the PPC manufacturers. If high end PPCs had Textmaker and the upcoming spreadsheet program already installed, it would get rid of those "POS works better with MS Office out of the box" whines. 
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David
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11-10-2003, 02:45 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 267
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heeh oops......hope they got my order cancel
8O
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11-10-2003, 03:13 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,766
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Cool I am definately buying this for my Pocket PC!!
-Justin.
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