People loose sight of the various "hidden" costs of something.
What you are "buying" here is the _service_ of creating one, the time of someone who has experience with the software, and can fix things, set one up, handle quirks and problems, and such in sort order.
I've found "free" to be, very often, expensive. And, based on one report (probably biased) M$ is doing the same thing against open source. I don't believe it, since I've wasted more of my life trying to make M$ products work (not even work as advertised) than any other single task except possibly sleeping.
If it takes you 2-3 days to make your toolbar, and you spend 2-3 hours a day working on it, you've invested a significant amount of time. Most likely, you've used the standard and obvious features, but not the more complicated or hidden -- or subtle features.
It's simply perspective. If you have the time and skills to invest in playing with creating a toolbar, and can take that away from other tasks or things you need to -- or would rather be -- doing (the sun is out, the weather is nice, life is moving on...) you can choose that.
If you'd rather have it done for you, and ready to plug in, we (Andy) can do that for you.
If you've purchased other products from us, or have a service or support contract, I'm sure he can work out some better rates.
But, as I've said many times over the years in different messages, it's all about "time". There is only so much time available, and it has to be used, paid for, made profitable, etc in order to continue to provide services. It's not about the software -- it's about time. The software is only a marker of time, and an incredible sucker-upper of time ;)
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
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What you are "buying" here is the _service_ of creating one, the time of someone who has experience with the software, and can fix things, set one up, handle quirks and problems, and such in sort order.
I've found "free" to be, very often, expensive. And, based on one report (probably biased) M$ is doing the same thing against open source. I don't believe it, since I've wasted more of my life trying to make M$ products work (not even work as advertised) than any other single task except possibly sleeping.
If it takes you 2-3 days to make your toolbar, and you spend 2-3 hours a day working on it, you've invested a significant amount of time. Most likely, you've used the standard and obvious features, but not the more complicated or hidden -- or subtle features.
It's simply perspective. If you have the time and skills to invest in playing with creating a toolbar, and can take that away from other tasks or things you need to -- or would rather be -- doing (the sun is out, the weather is nice, life is moving on...) you can choose that.
If you'd rather have it done for you, and ready to plug in, we (Andy) can do that for you.
If you've purchased other products from us, or have a service or support contract, I'm sure he can work out some better rates.
But, as I've said many times over the years in different messages, it's all about "time". There is only so much time available, and it has to be used, paid for, made profitable, etc in order to continue to provide services. It's not about the software -- it's about time. The software is only a marker of time, and an incredible sucker-upper of time ;)
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
