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The real price of Windows OS
Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about
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On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote:
Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. -- Slimer OpenMedia, GreenPeace Supporter & SPCA Paw Partner Encrypt. |
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"Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ...
On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. It's the price of a second-hand car. I can't buy nothing outside my country (credit card lack). |
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:45:22 -0000, "Malaka"
wrote: "Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ... On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. It's the price of a second-hand car. I can't buy nothing outside my country (credit card lack). Are you saying that the cost was FIVE THOUSAND dollars? (In the U. S., we would write that $5,000 - with a comma.) In the U.S., the decimal point separates dollars and cents. |
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"Kirk Bubul" escreveu na mensagem
... On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:45:22 -0000, "Malaka" wrote: "Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ... On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. It's the price of a second-hand car. I can't buy nothing outside my country (credit card lack). Are you saying that the cost was FIVE THOUSAND dollars? (In the U. S., we would write that $5,000 - with a comma.) In the U.S., the decimal point separates dollars and cents. Yes, thousand. About $5000.00. How much is Autocad? |
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"Malaka" escreveu na mensagem ...
"Kirk Bubul" escreveu na mensagem .. . On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:45:22 -0000, "Malaka" wrote: "Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ... On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. It's the price of a second-hand car. I can't buy nothing outside my country (credit card lack). Are you saying that the cost was FIVE THOUSAND dollars? (In the U. S., we would write that $5,000 - with a comma.) In the U.S., the decimal point separates dollars and cents. Yes, thousand. About $5000.00. How much is Autocad? The Windows 8.1 Apps at $0.99 is irony. |
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:41:01 -0400, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. The punctuation mark to separate thousands from hundreds is different in different parts of the world. Like you, in my part of the world, I read $5.000 as five dollars. But undoubtedly he's using the dot as what we would use the comma for, so he means five *thousand* dollars. |
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On 03/25/2015 07:56 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:41:01 -0400, Slimer wrote: On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. The punctuation mark to separate thousands from hundreds is different in different parts of the world. Like you, in my part of the world, I read $5.000 as five dollars. But undoubtedly he's using the dot as what we would use the comma for, so he means five *thousand* dollars. $5000 for Windows is of course absurd, assuming "$" = USD OTOH "$" can also = Peso which would put the price a bit over 300 USD |
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:13:08 -0500, philo wrote:
On 03/25/2015 07:56 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:41:01 -0400, Slimer wrote: On 2015-03-25 6:39 PM, Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! You should have purchased it. The punctuation mark to separate thousands from hundreds is different in different parts of the world. Like you, in my part of the world, I read $5.000 as five dollars. But undoubtedly he's using the dot as what we would use the comma for, so he means five *thousand* dollars. $5000 for Windows is of course absurd, assuming "$" = USD Of course, which is how I read the exclamation mark in his message. |
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philo wrote:
Malaka wrote: Once I saw Windows 7 for sale on a shop webpage from US. It was about $5.000! $5000 for Windows is of course absurd, assuming "$" = USD Not if it were a volume license for, say, 500 to 1000 seats. The OP's "shop webpage from US" seems deliberately nondescript so we can't check what was really being sold. Another possibility is that Malaka screwed up using a currency converter (since "from US" indicates he is not *in* the US[A]), so it could be 5000 is the US price converted to his currency and he accidentally added the dollar sign. His claim is unsubstantiated by not giving a URL to the "shop page". We also don't know what might've been included with that sale of Windows, like some high-end gaming or CAD machine. Of course, anyone can ask any price they want. I forget the specific but I recall a story about a guy who sold something like $4.10 for hundreds of dollars on eBay. It wasn't rare coinage, just pocket change he had that day. He claimed it was a joke but I don't think eBay saw it that way. |
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On 03/25/2015 08:47 PM, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Philo - and Ken. Which Peso? Mexican? In Philippine pesos it would be a little over $100. (About $112 today.) I did not take into account which country the Peso was from but the $5000 was obviously not a US price as he said the figure was "$5.000". Had it been a US price it would have been listed as "$5,000". Of course the OP could very well just be trolling for all I know. |
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philo wrote:
On 03/25/2015 08:47 PM, R. C. White wrote: Hi, Philo - and Ken. Which Peso? Mexican? In Philippine pesos it would be a little over $100. (About $112 today.) I did not take into account which country the Peso was from but the $5000 was obviously not a US price as he said the figure was "$5.000". Had it been a US price it would have been listed as "$5,000". Of course the OP could very well just be trolling for all I know. Likely to be the same person who "had a friend sell him a PC for $5000". Paul |
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On 03/26/2015 11:32 AM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote: On 03/25/2015 08:47 PM, R. C. White wrote: Hi, Philo - and Ken. Which Peso? Mexican? In Philippine pesos it would be a little over $100. (About $112 today.) I did not take into account which country the Peso was from but the $5000 was obviously not a US price as he said the figure was "$5.000". Had it been a US price it would have been listed as "$5,000". Of course the OP could very well just be trolling for all I know. Likely to be the same person who "had a friend sell him a PC for $5000". Paul Yes, when I see stuff like that I assume it's just a troll. but I often answer anyway just for the heck of it. |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:00:45 -0500, philo wrote:
Of course the OP could very well just be trolling for all I know. He seems to be our nym-shiiitng Portuguese friend. He's a surrealist, rather than a troll, IMO. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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