Gearotic is too cheap.

[Ken_Shea]

Glad I purchased before Art saw this 

Gear-Wheel Designer
with GCode Generator, Priced at US $338.13.
At least it isn't $339.99

I emailed the guy a few weeks back and asked if that was a joke and never got a reply.

Now I am not saying he should not get that much just that his market has to be razor thin.
My thinking is I'd rather sell four for a nickel then one for a dime.

[John S]

That's a ripoff. When it first came out I bought a copy, it was about £25 or $40 ish.
For it's time [ pre Gearotic ] it was the best thing out there but no way has any upgrade made it worth that amount of dosh.

For a start it's unsupport ed and I believe if Art chips in Art also bought a copy, found loads of bugs in it which the guy wanted you to buy the upgrade to fix and this is why Gearotic came about.

John S.

[ArtF]

Funny Story....

  Yes, if thats the program I think, I too bought it. The dxf's were terrible and had lines crossing all over.
I went one day, looking for a bug fix.. I saw there was one, but it was $40.00 for the bug fix. I then decided to
write GM....I do not like being ripped off. Software should provide value. Bugs I expect, god knows I make a lot of them myself,
but I try not to, and I try to correct quickly when I can. I also dont charge for bugs.

   A gear program will never pay for itself. I figure I make a couple dollars an hour for GM.. but thats OK, I love it, my users tend to as
well , and thats good enough for me. If it one day becomes a sucessful l business model, great, if not..grea t.

 Same motto I had with Mach3.  CNC software of the day was out of my price range, was hard to use, and I decided to put my  code where my mouth was
and take over the market. Beware anyone that overcharg es me for software. . I may decide you dont deserve the market you have..no matter how small. Give me a year or so,
and I will replace you, and learn a lot myself..t hats always worth the effort..   LOL

Art

[John S]

Beware anyone that overcharg es me for software. . I may decide you dont deserve the market you have..no matter how small. Give me a year or so,
and I will replace you, and learn a lot myself..t hats always worth the effort..   LOL

Art

Did I mention I was thinking about writing a program for doing bevel gears ? ......... ......... ......... .........

John S.

[ArtF]

LOL!!

   Tell you what, you do that and I'll not only give you that market share, Ill advertise for you!

Seriously though, as long as a tapered bit is used, as far as I know the code generator works fine. ( numerical ly..).
I just havent ever reached a spot to test it. Nor have I seen anyone test it. But numerical ly speaking, theoretic ally,
in diagramat ic testing, and analytica lly...it works just fine to make bevels... Blanks... thats another matter.. 

Art

[ArtF]

Thats funny.. I just checked.. it IS 318$ a copy now.. thats quite a jump, that must be some update !!

Art

[Ken_Shea]

Thats funny.. I just checked.. it IS 318$ a copy now.. thats quite a jump, that must be some update !!

Art

I am still seeing $338.18
On the page where that program was linked to the picture ad states usd $77.87 for version 3.001, now v 3.007 is $338 wonder what version 4 will cost  

Did I mention I was thinking about writing a program for doing bevel gears ?
John S.
 
Good one