In August and September, Alibre demonstrated that the 3D
CAD market is bloated, over priced and out of touch with customers. With our affordable $99 Challenge
Offer, we sold thousands of seats, including hundreds of new multi-seat
customers and booked record revenue, cash flow, and profits.
Now we are raising the bar, especially against the large,
expensive, CAD vendors. We want customers to realize just how much money they
can save by using Alibre Design, especially if they have multiple CAD users in
their organizations. The process is very simple. Just get a quote - from any
vendor selling comparable software and bring that quote to Alibre.
Everyone knows that prices for 3D CAD software are
ridiculously expensive, especially in this economy, during the greatest
recession since the Great Depression. Vendors such as Dassault Systemes,
Autodesk, Siemens, and Parametric Technologies charge $5,000, $10,000, and
upwards of $20,000 per seat for products such as Solidworks, Inventor, Solid
Edge, Pro/E, NX, and CATIA.
For example, a quote for SolidWorks Standard at
www.solidworks.com runs $3,995 for one license and $1,295/year for a
maintenance subscription for a total of $5,290. This means a customer will pay
only $529 for Alibre Design Standard with maintenance, saving $4,761 over
Solidworks. And the savings really add up with multi-seat purchases; 5 seats of
Alibre Design cost $2,645 versus $26,450 for Solidworks, a savings of $23,805!
Competitive quotes tailored for individual companies could
be even lower than list price due to promotions and other offers. Alibre's
Price Guarantee applies to these competing promotional offers as well.
We are encouraging people to do a thorough evaluation of
our software versus the competition. Often they will find they can get their
jobs done more efficiently using Alibre Design and at a fraction of the price
of the alternatives. Now we are also guaranteeing, that no matter what price
the quote, no matter how low the other guys go, we will beat them by a factor
of 10. It doesn't matter if the quote is for SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge,
Pro Engineer, etc. - any quote for any software product that offers comparable
functionality will be beaten by a factor of 10.
You might wonder how Alibre can sell professional 3D CAD
software at affordable prices. It’s simple, we have a lean, web-oriented,
sales, marketing, and distribution structure with all employees located at a
central headquarters near Dallas, TX that is complimented by third party
resellers in major geography’s. Since we don’t require a direct sales force,
geographically distributed premium office space, travel, or client
entertainment expenses like our competitors, we can pass on thousands of dollars
in savings to customers and still make a reasonable profit.
Before you spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars
for CAD software you should ask yourself, “Is my money going to pay for support
and future software improvements, or just paying the costs of unnecessary
overhead?”
It's going to happen, the only question is when. The CAD
software industry's monopolistic, anti-competitive practice of offering
bloated, overpriced 3D CAD packages will come to an end.
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