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- It costs least for your company to process auto-input orders.
- It costs somewhat more to process e-mail orders (labor
associated with
manual inputting of orders, additional labor associated

with errors

associated with this process (either on the player's or
the company's part).
- It costs even more to process postal orders (postage, paper,
ink, even
more labor, etc.)

I have difficulty understanding how some people can not seem
to grasp this
concept.

We understand the concept 100%. However, you missed out a
very relevant fact: some people are going to be penalised,
not because they insist on using the old way, but because
they *cannot* use the new way.

Here's a real life analogy for you:

Way back when, I worked for a company in Wolverhampton. The
office was a five minute walk from where I lived. A few months
after I started there, they moved offices to Dudley. I didn't
drive at the time and the bus service wasn't exactly direct, so
I depended on a collegue for lifts. We were told that we still
had to keep "correct" office hours, though. We both mentioned
the inconveneince (he had to go out of his way to collect me)
and when we asked for some flexibility we were told: well, it's
not a problem for most people. And that was that as far as they
were concerned.

We both left the company shortly thereafter. Along with quite a
lot of other people, as it happened! So much for not being
a problem...

Gavin

--- In mepbmlist@y..., Gavin Wynford-Jones <gavinwj@c...> wrote:

We understand the concept 100%. However, you missed out a
very relevant fact: some people are going to be penalised,
not because they insist on using the old way, but because
they *cannot* use the new way.

But you're *not* being penalised. The rise in turn cost would have
come anyways.

The people who use Automagic are given a discount because by using
it they lessen the workload for the people running the game.

It could be far worse, in Legends (run by Harlequin, not MEGames
tho), paper players have to pay 16p per order, people using the
Windows/MsDos frontend LPE or LTE, gets away with 10p per order.
Thats a 60% difference, because of the amount of work it saves Sam
and the Legends GMs to process the orders. And to top that, the good
graphical frontend, LPE, costs £10 to buy.

Øystein