Philip Vasta
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Does anyone recall when the BF sales began and how long they lasted for these companies?
Other than "The Ton" which was a 3 product bundle that was greatly discounted, it was better to wait.If I recall correctly, last year Spitfire did a short Black Friday weekend sale, with discounts across most products, although not quite to the level of the wish list discounts.
77% ? I want to buy studio orchestral bundle, is it considered a collection?Last year the BF Spitfire sale was brief and storewide: 25% off individual products and up to 77% with collections. My memory is that is what it has been every BF for Spitfire for the last three years. The Wishlist sale is much better for everything unless there is something that comes out like "The Ton." The exception to both of these things is anything that was recently released. But everybody is wise to this so maybe Spitfire will change this up someday.
Embertone does something different every year. Once they had a Sonokinetic approach, with a special deal every day or so. What is a constant is they have some very generous deals, so it's good to think about what you want.
I think that what that means is that you always get a discount when you buy a bundle, and when you add their BF sale to that, some of them would add "up to 77%."77% ? I want to buy studio orchestral bundle, is it considered a collection?
I'm actually okay with no sales. I would save a lot of money.I get it that it's been a goddamn black friday for the whole past year, but somehow it starts to puzzle me when we are now seemingly entitled for huge sales.
Two weeks before actual black friday and panic creeps in if there isn't that huge sale going on already.
I owned one of the libraries too. I wish I had checked...Also if you buy a bundle where you have part of it already, SA does discount it by what you already have. So, like when I bought the Ton last year, it cost me something like $65 instead of $99 because I had one of the instruments already.
I get it that it's been a goddamn black friday for the whole past year, but somehow it starts to puzzle me when we are now seemingly entitled for huge sales.
Two weeks before actual black friday and panic creeps in if there isn't that huge sale going on already.
You didn't, trust me. Lots of us look forward to BF sales, it's a tradition as much as anything else.I'm sorry if it struck you that way, I didn't mean to come across as entitled
You didn't, trust me. Lots of us look forward to BF sales, it's a tradition as much as anything else.
It's the way of economics. When there are few companies providing goods, they can basically charge what they want. As more and more companies enter the marketplace, competition requires you either be the best so people will spend more for your product or lower your prices to get more of the market. None of them are perfect, except maybe VSL, though they did come out with a lower cost alternative. And they have sales as well.I wouldn't call it "entitled", but it does feel like a stupid game of chicken sometimes... are you going to blink first and buy, or am I going to blink first and make a deeper discount?
I've said this before, I like the idea of people buying things when they have a project that calls for them, or they want to buy a new toy, instead of buying things when the developer has a sale. But I'm not going to try to change the entire world, and even developers who did very few sales in the past seem to be doing bigger and deeper discounts now.