The grocery store Jewel in the Chicago area gave me the full price back. So I did get that for free. The price on the actual package in the store was different than what was advertised in the paper.
Actually, the price change analogy isn't correct here. A better parallel to what happened is that I paid $10 for 10 widgets. In the box were not only 10 widgets but a whatsit too. I wasn't expecting a whatsit, nothing on the box indicated I would get a whatsit, must have been a mistake at the factory. But heck, it's a neat whatsit so I used it. I then needed 10 more widgets and went back to the store and paid another $10 for an identical box. However, the factory fixed the glitch in the packaging machine and there was no whatsit in this box.
I paid the same price, with the same promise of 10 widgets; I simply didn't get the benefit of a mistakenly included whatsit. I have no claim with the manufacturer to continue including what they never had promised me nor had I paid for.
Oh, and on the Amazon example, this happened not too long ago. Someone at Amazon slipped a decimal point and listed a $400 PS3 for $40 and several folks caught it and ordered them, including my coworker. Amazon did not honor the orders, they canceled them.
But Doug, it all depends on what the whatsit is. Was it something that is required to use the widgets or something that had no association to the widget? If it is required by the whatsit then I believe you do have a claim. You bought the widgets thinking they should work but you also needed the whatsit. Now you can't use the widget without the whatsit.
The whatsit is not required to use the widgets. The widgets can perform functionally without the whatsit. The whatsit will allow you to do more things with your widgets, so you used them.
Does this mean you will get that free whatsit when you purchase more widgets? No, the manufacturer caught their mistake in packaging. Do you have any rights to demand a free whatsit just because you got one once? No.
Assemblies built with AAX can be opened with Foundation, you have only lost the ability to create more AAX assemblies.
I guess that answers that. Not only am I wrong, I am also wrong.
Thanks Ben. yeah It was bad news but at least that saves me a week of trial/error scenarios like "what if I use flythrough on my PSF, does that bring AAX?"
We'll be upgrading people here to 64bit starting today, so we don't need these simplified reps as much as we used to. However at the moment everyone is on 32bit and we'll feel the pain until all guys get to 64bit machines. I'm looking to see how we purchased the licenses anyway just for my own sanity.
Its more like Bait and Switch, like a free trial that you didn't ask for. You test drive it, you like it and need it. Mfg hopes you can't live without it and purchase the functionalaity. Andy
