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What's on your Spitfire Christmas Wish List?

StillLife said:
Your shadow seems to be dark indeed.
Spitfire essentially says: We GIVE you 40% off of everything (except StB) you'd like to buy (no matter how old or expensive the library is). That is a gift. And it's given.
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Yet it is obvious that if you always just talk about receiving a gift many people will not expect discount codes. Many people have been wondering about an additional gift. No wonder... they never said "you'll receive discount codes as a gift from us" - which would be fine. Context. ;)
(broken link removed) They avoid the word "sale" and "discount" like the plague haha...

A gift to me doesn't cost anything... sales are a way for companies to get people to buy things they usually wouldn't or couldn't buy - which is a good thing for both parties. Again - unless you really make it clear that the gift is a discount code...
But not a gift as most understand it.
StillLife said:
I do have heard of them, but I just don't like their libraries as much as I like Spitfire's. For some things in life you are willing to pay a bit more than for other. When that 'more' becomes a bit less, I am happy. But to each his own, of course. We're not obliged to buy anything.
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Ha, whether a sale is thermonuclear does not depend on whether you personally appreciate the libraries.
 
DivingInSpace said:
Well, in that case you can grab Requiem. I got Lacrimosa, which i am exited to try out when i get my external SSD fixed haha.
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Yes....for this it seems there is more time to decide. I´m really in for a choir. Not sure if it will be Requiem or EWC. At the end i´m scared....both...plus a new extern SSD. I like more the intimate not too epic in your face stuff.
 
I wanted to get LCO for peppering my strings with various flavours but from the articulation list I learned that some things were sampled for certain sections only. Like why celli and basses+celli don't have a staccato dig or sul pont tremolo?
Dunno now...
 
DivingInSpace said:
Jesus, why do people always have to be so quick in assuming the worst. A lot of people haven't recieved their mails yet, at the last wish list sale i got mine pretty late in the day, so don't worry, you definitely wont be left out.

Jesus..
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This is the same guy who said some nasty things about Christian in Christian's thread a while ago and quickly deleted it. It didn't occur to me to take a print screen and when I tried to reply to his post it was gone.

Maybe some of you that were following that thread received an email notification? I let it go to avoid stupid drama and if you look at his post history, he acts like nothing happened but this is too much.

In the spirit of the Holidays, I wish that you go fuck yourself @Mr. Edinburgh and I'm glad that you finally showed your true colors.
 
DarkestShadow said:
Yet it is obvious that if you always just talk about receiving a gift many people will not expect discount codes. Many people have been wondering about an additional gift. No wonder... they never said "you'll receive discount codes as a gift from us" - which would be fine. Context. ;)
(broken link removed) They avoid the word "sale" and "discount" like the plague haha...

A gift to me doesn't cost anything... sales are a way for companies to get people to buy things they usually wouldn't or couldn't buy - which is a good thing for both parties. Again - unless you really make it clear that the gift is a discount code...
But not a gift as most understand it.

Ha, whether a sale is thermonuclear does not depend on whether you personally appreciate the libraries.
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I think it's a question of perspective. Spitfire has had these Wishlist sales (2x a year) for a couple of years now. They always call these discounts a gift (fitting in to the Wishlist-idiom). The discounts used to be like 25% of individual products and 15% on collections. Since last year (their 10th anniversary) they upped the discounts considerably, hence the thermonuclear quote. They never said it was going to be the biggest sale in VI-world, just their biggest sale. Which is almost correct. Only the BF collection The Ton was ever cheaper than 50% off.

I actually do think that appreciation of a library plays a huge role in how one values a particular sale. True, I could have bought products that were discounted much more - if I would have wanted them, which I did not. Words and percentages are just advertising. In the end it comes down to what you are willing to pay for any given product.
 
any of those who received the discounts already had SstS regular/pro on their whishlist? what's the %?
 
StillLife said:
I think it's a question of perspective. Spitfire has had these Wishlist sales (2x a year) for a couple of years now. They always call these discounts a gift (fitting in to the Wishlist-idiom). The discounts used to be like 25% of individual products and 15% on collections. Since last year (their 10th anniversary) they upped the discounts considerably, hence the thermonuclear quote. They never said it was going to be the biggest sale in VI-world, just their biggest sale. Which is almost correct. Only the BF collection The Ton was ever cheaper than 50% off.

I actually do think that appreciation of a library plays a huge role in how one values a particular sale. True, I could have bought products that were discounted much more - if I would have wanted them, which I did not. Words and percentages are just advertising. In the end it comes down to what you are willing to pay for any given product.
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On a personal level that is certainly true. But not when you speak generally... then would be generalizing your opinion and need of a library.

And I'm again going into semantics. If you just say that your sale will be thermonuclear then I won't just take your company into consideration. Just like if I'd tell you I'm working on a ground-breaking project you wouldn't expect I only reference previous work I have done... in that sense producing a simple piano library would be ground-breaking to me because I never produced a library. :P

So, if they'd just say - be part of one of our biggest (or the biggest) sales there would of course be no problem at all. Rather than implying it's epic and big in general.
 
About 15 years ago I ran a company which, amongst other things, distributed some specialist software. When a new version came out, we ran some adverts in the trade press which said that the price to upgrade from previous versions was 'from £ 299.00 + VAT'

Now back then it was pretty normal that if you upgraded from v5 to v9, then it was more expensive than if you upgraded from v 7 to v 9 for example.

Anyway this guy called up and gave such grief on the phone to one of the sales girls that he was eventually put through to me. I asked him what the problem was. He told me it was that the ad was misleading, as upgrades for older versions cost more than the £ 299.00 price. I got a copy of the ad and told him the ad quite clearly stated from £ 299.00.

This, apparently, was the wrong thing to say, and the chap went off on one, he was going to call training standards, coast guard and the CIA etc....

So to shut him up I offered, purely as a good will gesture (ie to get shot of him), to sell him the upgrade for £ 299.00 - and asked him if he would like to give me his serial number so I could process the upgrade.....

He literally couldn't get off the phone quickly enough.

I'll leave it to everyone else to decide what the moral of this story is....
 
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