> > > There you go! How about a "Demo-Dongle"!! Pay $25 to $50 and get to > > > use Logic for 2-4 weeks! People could use it as an emergency backup, On 6/3/02 4:27 PM, "Neil Parfitt" <cheezemachine@...> wrote: > > That would be killer! It would be "Pay as you Go" - like cell phone > > service. From: Malcolm Payne <alt@...> >Et voila - for once in the history of this list, people seem to be reaching >a consensus rather that diverging from one. Maybe it's time for a poll - >If E-Magic were to flog a second XSKey to registered users as a backup, >time limited to 30 days, operating on the same access codes as the original, >for say $50 US, how many users would buy it? why....if you have a registered copy you just paid 700us for, should you have to pay an additional 50 if your xskey craps out on you? shouldn't they just send you one? but, the limited time 50 trial dongle sounds like a great idea. i wish they had that a while ago. pete.

On 6/3/02 3:10 PM, "pete from phaelam" <phaelam@...> wrote: > why....if you have a registered copy you just paid 700us for, should you > have to pay an additional 50 if your xskey craps out on you? shouldn't they > just send you one? but, the limited time 50 trial dongle sounds like a great > idea. i wish they had that a while ago. If it craps out, for sure. What about if you lose it, gets stolen, etc. this would provide good insurance for the user at a decent price ( XS Keys cost something to manufacture and ship, after all). Digi is charging $100 for replacement iloks, which seems a bit steep to me.. Malcolm ----------------- Malcolm Payne Music NYC http://www.malcolmpayne.com

pete wrote: > why....if you have a registered copy you just paid 700us for, > should you have to pay an additional 50 if your xskey craps out > on you? shouldn't they just send you one? but, the limited time > 50 trial dongle sounds like a great idea. i wish they had that a > while ago. If your XSKey fails I'm almost positive Emagic will replace it for free, or if not free, a very small fee. Emagic is *not* charging people money if their XSKey fails and they need to get a new one as far as I know. Emagic is currently charging $350 to people who need to have a backup XSKey so they don't miss an important deadline, etc. There is not a fee to get a replacement, if you happen to get one of the few XSKeys that have actually failed, except maybe paying the postage fee of mailing your dead XSKey back to Emagic. I think one feature for future versions of the XSKey would be to have some sort of small LED on it that lit up if it was plugged in ok and receiving adequate power from whatever USB slot it was plugged into. Emagic could even go as far as having it light up Red if it was getting power, and then light up Green once Logic started and was communicating with the XSKey successfully. Jeremy

Does anyone know who I should contact at emagic. I'd say I was one of the first to send in my registration. Now I can't use Logic. Bit of an anticlimax to my upgrade excitement. Pity... it was the long weekend here. I ended up scoring a few ideas out by hand using a trusty pen. Luckily a backup pen only costs around 50c, with higher grade pens coming in at about the 2.50 mark. Regards, -Steven T.