Antiques SOS™
for Windows®
Value -- Something to Think About
Copyright 1999-2005 All rights reserved
We compete on value to you, our client, and not on
price alone.
Our goal, and we think that we do pretty well meeting it,
is to
provide excellent value for your software investment. By value
we mean
providing top quality products which meet your needs,
consistently excellent service, and
frequent meaningful upgrades.
It also means being there when you need us.
If we don’t compete on price alone, then how do we
compete?
We compete in product content, product support, client satisfaction
and value.
That is the ultimate owning cost to you, our client.
Lets use new cars as an example.
Wouldn't you really rather own
and drive a car with great intuitive controls, power steering, cruise
control exceptional reliability and terrific fresh styling? You certainly
don't want your new car to be hard to use, ugly, require constant
memorization to operate it and be unreliable. Then why choose your
mall software based upon price alone? The difference in price between
Antiques SOS™ for Windows®, if there is any, amounts to just pennies
per day. Why compromise your business for just pennies per day?
Product Content
Please refer to the features lists which accompany our
literature
package. You’ll see that we offer products that are unusually
complete and
have an excellent degree of flexibility. Best of all
they don’t force you into a
"one size fits all" solution. What this
means to you is that the Antiques
SOSTM for Windows®
product
you have today will enable you to grow and change
without
purchasing completely new software. You also avoid the learning
curve which goes
with new software. The exceptional degree of
flexibility built into our Antiques
SOS™
for Windows® customizing
routines means that you can operate your business the
way you
want to. You aren’t forced to adapt your business model to someone
else’s concept. Antiques SOS™ for
Windows®
is professional
software by professionals
Product Support
If someone on your operations staff fouls up, and,
inevitably,
they will, who is going to be there to help? We will, if you put
your trust in
Antiques SOS™
for Windows®. Computers fail,
printers jam, power outages
occur and operating staff find
innumerable ways to foul up. Just when we think we have
seen it all a new "scenario" gets invented. It isn’t your fault
and it
isn’t ours either but you need help not a wagging finger.
We seek to earn a fair return on our investment in time, training
and software development
skills so we can afford to be there
when you need us. Without a fair return no
developer can afford
the expense of improving his products, upgrading his skills and
equipment and then add the features that add continuing benefit
to his clients.
Client Satisfaction
Antiques SOS™
for Windows® is risk free !!
Client satisfaction is
our number one priority. But our saying so doesn’t make it so!
Talk to our existing clients. They will tell you what you want to
know. That is why we
provide you with a client list. And we do
offer an excellent guarantee.
Cost to Client
Antiques SOS™
for Windows® accommodates your
business
growth and its expansion. Retraining for expansions of Antiques
SOS™ for Windows®
is minimal, computer needs are modest, and
several lower cost printing methods are
available. We make it easy
to afford Antiques SOS™
for Windows®. We
accept cash, checks
and Visa/MC.
Trusted Professional
As a trusted professional, your accountant is in a unique
position
to help you. You are both going to have to deal with the information
you get from
whatever software product you use. Why not make it
easier and more complete for you both.
Invite him or her to review
our product information. Have your accountant call us to
discuss
Antiques SOS™ for
Windows® and the features which make it so
useable and powerful.
About Price
Why not compete on price alone? Have you heard about all of
those malls which were abandoned by software vendors who
won’t answer phone calls or
who just up and disappeared or
are in jail (yes, they exist)? How about the friend of a
friend who
patched together something which sort of worked and then
discovered that the
antique mall business is less than intuitive
and lost interest? It’s an unpleasant
feeling to find yourself all alone !
Lets be realistic! It's only by asking a fair price for
Antiques
SOS™
for Windows® that we can provide the excellent value you need
and deserve. Antiques
SOS™ for Windows® is a sales and financial
record keeping and reporting system
written especially for antique
malls and similar businesses. It has dozens of highly
usable features
which save you significant amounts of time and make your life easier.
We
have backed our promises with action since our first installation
in 1987 and provide
excellent client service. If you don’t have assured
access to what you need who gets
short changed? You do!
Neither buying nor competing on price alone makes sense. I
don’t
know about you but I have learned the bitter truth about buying on
price alone. Will I buy anything critical to my business or safety on
price alone? Not on your life and you shouldn’t either. There is no
such thing as a
"free lunch" and there never will be. If you fall into
the ever so tempting
cheapest price trap you will pay in one way or
another. Either functionality will suffer,
support will be nonexistent
or expensive, upgrades will not be available, or your software
will
become an orphan because the programmers aren’t in-house. And,
doesn’t a
too cheap price bring something else to mind? Like
desperation?? It is a real "crap
shoot" as to how long such
businesses are going to be around to support the product
they
want to sell you.
Think of the number of times you have purchased a product
on
the basis of price alone. I’ll wager that, if you are honest with
yourself, that
you haven’t always been satisfied with your
purchase or the service that went with
it. Do you buy the
cheapest vehicle or telephone service available? Talking about
low
price buying, do you remember the Yugo? Great deal wasn’t it?
On the other
hand, why pay more than you have to? Paying more
than Antiques SOS™
for Windows®' modest price means only one
thing. You paid more than you needed to!
Upgrading from another product? We do data conversions ! We
will assist you with the upgrade to Antiques SOS™
for Windows®.
One conversion involved a customer file of over 11,000 names and
addresses-- saving that shop owner significant time and money.
Other stuff
Did we miss something? Please call. We’ll be pleased
to answer your questions.
We at Software Gallery have a
very strong commitment to our
clients. Just refer to our user list. Then call them and
ask. As
further proof, we offer a 60 day money back, no hassle,
guarantee. When you invest
in Antiques SOS™
for Windows®
what you get is exceptional value -- short term as well as long term.
Just remember! Anyone can cut a price. It’s the
easiest and most
disastrous marketing ploy with you the ultimate loser. We work
hard to
continuously increase value to you, the client. . We are
constantly working on product
improvement - making it easier
to learn, making it more powerful and complete and adding
client requested features.
Antiques SOS™ for Windows®
- Is technologically advanced
- Is easy to use
- Has uncommonly excellent support
- Is constantly improved and upgraded
--- and much much more is coming
If you are serious about being in the Antique Mall business
there simply isn’t a valid reason to not benefit from using
Antiques SOS™ for Windows®.
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