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0 pointsTheSpiceIsLife7y ago0 comments

I can’t speak for this vendor in particular, but one common reason for pricing like this is the vendor doesn’t want to deal with smaller customers as they often have the highest support requirements.

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TheAceOfHearts7y ago· 2 in thread

Pretty much. An enterprise customer won't bat an eye at $12K/year, and I imagine it'd pay for itself pretty quickly.

I can definitely relate with GP, though. It feels frustrating to learn about an interesting product only to find that it's priced way outside of your budget.

At least Gremlin has a public sticker price. Sometimes enterprise services just skip that completely and require you to setup a call with someone in their sales department, which usually means the service is outside of your budget.

TheSpiceIsLifeOP7y ago

> which usually means the service is outside of your budget.

I wonder if this is true though.

Maybe it puts off people who otherwise might be able to have a product tailored to their budget???

dkersten7y ago

Its possible. I know a guy who isn't put off buy "call us" pricing notices and he seems to get good deals, so its certainly possible. Many of us will never find out though, because "call us" means "close tab". Even if I really want their product and am willing to pay a lot for it, my time is too precious to me to waste on calls.

dkersten7y ago

Sure, but then why tease us with a cut-down free tier?

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