Altium live and evaluation

[Kryoclasm]

I can't believe what a pain it is just to join the Altium community or even to get my hands on the eval software for designer.

Is this normal, or am I dong something wrong? They haven't bothered to even contact me after a week.

Ugh.

[Bloch]

I can't believe what a pain it is just to join the Altium community or even to get my hands on the eval software for designer.

Is this normal, or am I dong something wrong? They haven't bothered to even contact me after a week.

Ugh.

See my other post here ..... But they have deem you will not be worth it for them ! Sad way to do business but that for us to do about it?

[Kryoclasm]

I didnt know if this was normal, thank for the reply.

[IanJ]

I can't believe what a pain it is just to join the Altium community or even to get my hands on the eval software for designer.

Is this normal, or am I dong something wrong? They haven't bothered to even contact me after a week.

Ugh.

See my other post here ..... But they have deem you will not be worth it for them ! Sad way to do business but that for us to do about it?

An idea might be to resend the request using a different email addr and give the request an air of professionalism about it, i.e. "I'm an engineer, about to embark on a medium to large design project for..............." about it (assuming you didn't do that first time)......you might be lucky 2nd time around.

Ian.

[HWgeek]

As with any professional package, they are not looking at the hobbyist market, sadly.

I have found that when I use gmail/yahoo/isp etc I don't get much responses from companies, since they are marketing/sales driven.

However if you set up a business sounding email via one of the many email providers out there (for example google pro gmail,  $5/month or $50/year, no affiliation etc... just know someone who uses it for their business and likes it.)

Now you are engineer@cooltechnamecompany.undertheradar.com

Likely to go loads better for you...

[Kryoclasm]

What bothers me, is if I like using it I wouldn't mind shelling out the large amount of cash for it.

Also, on their site it is bleeding... "try the free eval version!". I saw no stipulation that they would have put an upturned nose in my face first. 

I get the impression that the company is populated with pompous dickheads. 

[sacherjj]

I have to admit that it made me try the other option for a free version, on my personal machine.  I didn't get a trial until I asked nicely twice.  Then a short while later, we wrote them a big check. 

The biggest annoyance in all industries is this, let us have a salesman contact you for a price.  Sorry, but if I can get a comparable product from someone who will give me a price, you will never hear from me, because most salesmen are a waste of my time. 

[marshallh]

I was able to get a live account after 2 weeks of sending an inquiry. It had to be personally approved.

[joelby]

When I had a student license, I remember it was quite difficult to get them to reply to enquiries. I wanted to pay for it and everything!

It looks like I had more success when I used an email address (sales.au at altium dot com) rather than the contact form.