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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 11:34 AM |
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Near Map
Not VW but...........
Near Map now wants to charge $5,000 a year to use their website, and that is the 25% off price.
As an estimator it was bloody handy to look at sites rather than go there.
It was also a LOT more upto date than Google and it has history photos.
Does anyone know of another similar site?
There is no way I can justify spending that sort of money.
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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 11:55 AM |
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Unfortuantely no. It was good while it lasted.
Bing has clearer mapping than Google but the maps for brisbane at least are 3+ years old.
I am a commercial estimator as well so found it handy.
And I also think it is exsessive for a membership. I can see they wanted to get the users interested before purchase but at 5k a pop they have priced
themselves out of a lot of bussiness users. Maybe, and I mean Maybe 1k would be more suitable.
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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 12:27 PM |
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wtf? last time I looked at near maps was free!
5k? get out of here!
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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 07:08 PM |
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Yep. Even the free version for personal use now comes at a price. I would only use it every month or so. It is very good, but I couldn't justify a
subscription for the amount I use it.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 10:44 PM |
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I work for an oil refinery - I hear they wanted $100k+ for multi user commercial licence !!!
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| posted on December 14th, 2012 at 11:01 PM |
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Like ALL dealers, they give you a taste for free, then hit you when your hooked.
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
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| posted on December 16th, 2012 at 08:42 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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I work for an oil refinery - I hear they wanted $100k+ for multi user commercial licence !!!
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ah what? how is that even possible?
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| posted on December 16th, 2012 at 09:38 AM |
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I know - they see big business and multiply the price..... Software licences can get very expensive when there are two hundred users.....
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