I see no 'upgrade' option on the buy page
I found no discount coupon

kinda makes sense to me from my pov

one of the main pulls for pro is you can sell the gadgets
if the gadget is good and sells - you will get your investment back and then some
even if you only sell 80 at a $1 each, you made profit

not the same as an upgrade on enhancement software

I dont even want to sell anything. All I want to do is make sidebar gadget that everyone can use. DX that comes with Object Desktop does not let me make a stand alone Sidebar Gadget. I made a weather Side bar gadget and someone who downloaded it said that he still needed to have Dx installed to use it. That stinks!
I love skinning and would love to make more sidebar gadgets so every one can use. not just DX owners. Why make a sidebar gadget if only dx owners can use it. Guess i will just keep on makeng DX stuff.

Stardock I hope you understand my point of veiw.

I tried an email to stardock and no response. I will give sale a shot.

SirSmiley:
I have tried that with my wife. She thinks that skinning is a wast of time. I just got lucky to renew my first year of Object Desktop

I bought an Xbox 360 last year. MS won't give me a discount on an Elite. I just want to play games on it......

(See my point?)

If you buy vista home premium and want upgrade you do get a discount. MS does care

I do understand that. But why not try to make you existing customer happy by offering a discount. I bet people would upgrade there for Stardock would make more $$$.

I think DX Pro is designed for serious developers that want to sell their gadgets.  If they are serious enough about DX to take that step they should be willing to pay for the privilege and the extra development that Stardock has put into it.

As stated in the first reply, it can pay for itself very quickly if you do your job right. 

All the versions of Vista are about the same too . . and people complain the same way.  The cool thing is that the market will decide whether the current marketing is a success or not and whether things will have to change.

My father always said, "Vote with your feet and your wallet"   

There are lots of companys out there that think in that stuborn way.

I will not buy Dx pro for full price. but let me pay the difference between dx and dx pro and then i would. there for stubborn company's would get the money they are losing. not offering a discount they wont see the money of those who are not willing to buy the same program twice.

Most people who are going to by DX pro are going to because there had in mind to sale there thing right from the beginning. I still do not want to sale anything. All i wanted to do is make a Stand alone vista sidebar gadget so all wincustomize community can use the sidebar gadgets without having to have DX installed. A vista sidebar gadget should only require that Vista side bar software is running.

I do understand both sides of this. Its just hard to understand why a company would not want to make more money by reaching out to those that have a standard software and not offer a discount to upgrade. I know there are a lot of people out there that would upgrade if they had some kind of discount. But wont because they do not want to have to by the same software with a little more added to it.

I have the cake but i do want the Ice cream. LOL

Zubaz remembers when DX Pro was $499.

Blessings are being counted now