Can anyone suggest a good place to sell our versalaser? We’ve used it less than 20 hours total and have coreldraw 5,6,11,12, photograv, a million pieces of artwork, and about 500 dollars in laserable supplies. Our life took a different turn and we can’t follow the laser engraving business that we had hoped to start up. Thanks for any help you guys can give me. Michelle, North Carolina.
Have you tried talking to the dealer that sold you the machine?
I strongly suggest your dealer and Versalaser. About 6 months ago we were looking for a used laser and both my dealer and Versalaser said that they get them occasionally and that they sell immediately. Who knows how true, but that is how we found ours–after 2 1/2 months of searching and begging. Otherwise, try eBay. The whole time I was looking, there wasn’t a single used one available (demand > supply?).
Want to sell your photograv?? I need it. Or maybe you can sell me a copy of it?
I recall in 1982 about 30 days after I started selling computer engravers, I asked my boss (Victor Wyman) for a copy of Wordstar. He said “Roy, if we don’t honor the intellectual property of others, how can we expect others to honor ours? How can we expect our business to prosper if we are willing to steal the work of others?
Embarrassed to say that at that time I had no concept that software was not owned, but licensed (typically to one user on one PC or at best, one user on one PC at a time). Since then I’ve entered the ranks of those who have published software and for anyone who has done that, it is infuriating to learn that 2 to 3 times as many people are using your software as have legally paid for it. I remember walking into a trophy shop and the proprietor said “Five of us here in town went together and purchased your software and each of us took a copy!”
Sorry, that’s immoral.
Maybe you, like me at that time, have not considered it in that light?
I remember walking into a trophy shop and the proprietor said “Five of us here in town went together and purchased your software and each of us took a copy!”
Software piracy is definitely wrong, just as is any kind of illegal action. However, I think there is something else going on here, and that is these people told you to your face they pirated your software. To me that seems to imply that there is something personal going on here, that they simply and clearly don’t like you. There’s anger. They could very well have stolen your software and not said anything. In fact, this is usually how such people do it. I have never heard of someone bragging about it.
Just a feeling I have. I can be wrong.