Look it's real simple.koolkeys wrote:That, my friend, was a FANTASTIC analogy!!!
It's simple, and there's no "sugar coating" this fact. If you bought T1, and actually used it, which I'm assuming anyone who wants to upgrade did use it, then you got worth from it. Plain and simple. You want T2 with all the bells and whistles? Then you gotta pay. How do you think it's fair to Mackie to give everyone the deal you're asking for? Take another $20 off for everyone? There's a reason they offer the no plug-ins offer. They realize that some may not get any use of the plug-ins and therefore will see no value. But if you are going to use the plugs, then you see value, and you will buy.
I'll say it again. Check nearly EVERY other major software developers, and most minor ones, and show me where there was a better value.
It's very common practice to have to charge this much for an upgrade. You're getting the better deal. T2 is worth $150. You get it for $90. Sounds like a deal to me. T1 was worth $80. You paid for it, and got to use it. That's the plain and simple, no sugar coating needed, truth. There's nothing that anyone can say that will change that fact. Sometimes I feel like I'm a glass half full in a forum of half empties.......
Koolkeys
I was under the impression that by buying T1 in the last stages right before T2 was released that there would be a discount from what a person who walks into a store and buys it pays. I'm not exactly sure WHERE I got that impression, but based on the sheer number of other disgruntled T1 uses, I guess I'm not alone in my confusion.
Turns out there is a discount if you don't include the boxed bundled plugs correct?
I was not aware of that. I thought T2 would only be available with the plugs included. In other word there would be no plugin-less T2 on the market.
So sue me if I didn't forsee that.
This gang mentality of everyone jumping down my throat and calling my analogies stupid is rediculous and un-called for.
I already said I'm GOING TO BUY IT.
The simple fact is I would've saved twenty dollars if I have waited untill it was available thru an online retailer or walk in store. I now know that. Live and learn right. If someone had told me about the MSRP discrepancy I would've waitied.
That is the only point I'm trying to make.
Nothing more, nothing less. No hidden agendas, no subtle insinuations of T1's lack of worth.
I'm just a bit ticked that Mackie won't do a price match sort of thingy to where if I show them I bought it for 150 AND that I am a registered owner of T1 that I would get the same price as Joe Schmo, not pay twenty more dollars than him. Am I really out of line with this thinking? In other words a 80 dollar discount since I already spent 80 dollars a little over a month and a half ago with the only intent to get T2(with the plugs) NOT T1
