Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[Numanoid]

One thing is to create multiple accounts to fool an entity that you're multiple customer (which you are not), another thing is to use a coupon codes on several retailers.

I knew it was too good to be true.

My consciouness is black, I shall not use the voucher

[ghettosynth]

This is a good point. In fact, for several of these promotions you can use the coupon more than once with the same vendor as long as they are distinct purchases. We have no idea what the relationship with Waves and its vendors are. For all we know, they offer aggressive promotions to the vendors in the same way that they promote to us. Waves is a sales machine and, frankly, they're doing a pretty good job of selling, reselling, and rebundling a lot of older plugins that many, if not most, vendors would have retired long ago.

[ghettosynth]

One thing is to create multiple accounts to fool an entity that you're multiple customer (which you are not), another thing is to use a coupon codes on several retailers.

I knew it was too good to be true.

My consciouness is black, I shall not use the voucher

Well, it's not the same situation, but, the same reasoning with respect to the vendor's expectations apply. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't buy any of their sample libraries with the coupon? I looked at the coupon and can't be bothered to buy anything. I rarely spend $13 for a sample library, let alone $43. What, did we just time travel back to 1995? So, if you use the coupon, worst case is that the vendor makes some money. If you create a bunch of different accounts then you lose the ability to manage your purchases from one account and take advantage of any loyalty offers. The point being, there is some cost to you.

When the marginal cost to produce another copy of a product approaches zero, as it does with digital products, it's all profit. I bet if you asked them behind closed doors whether they would rather sell you 100 discounted loop libraries or zero non-discounted ones I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be.

If the vendor wants to restrict this then they only have to limit things on their end in relatively simple ways, e.g., only one coupon per name at a particular street address, which will be the same across most of your credit cards, or only one coupon per paypal account, etc. If you want to think about situations where vendors do heavily restrict discounts think about academic licenses where you have to jump through hoops to get your copy.

[telmofmm]

One thing is to create multiple accounts to fool an entity that you're multiple customer (which you are not), another thing is to use a coupon codes on several retailers.

I knew it was too good to be true.

My consciouness is black, I shall not use the voucher

Well... your father can also discover Samplephonics and it's voucher
While you're at it, maybe your mother, aunt and grandpa also discovered Samplephonics, and offered you the product for your birthday!

[Numanoid]

Well... your father can also discover Samplephonics and it's voucher

My father is dead

[telmofmm]

Well... your father can also discover Samplephonics and it's voucher

My father is dead

I'm under the impression you're fooling me... but just in the case you're not, sorry man...

[Numanoid]

Well... your father can also discover Samplephonics and it's voucher

My father is dead

I'm under the impression you're fooling me... but just in the case you're not, sorry man...

Nope, he is gone, December 2013. RIP

But he lived a full life, so that is just that. Nobody can beat time.

[OneOfManyPauls]

the real issue is opportunity cost- whether someone would have paid more or whether the discount created a sale that would have never happened.

[koolkeys]

the real issue is opportunity cost- whether someone would have paid more or whether the discount created a sale that would have never happened.

Well, in my case, the coupon being available on a third party site pushed me over the edge. I wasn't really convinced I wanted to buy without it.

But regardless, that issue is for the developer and third party sellers to determine. It isn't the consumer's job to determine what promos are worth doing. So I'm not too worried

Brent

[Uncle E]

Even if you abuse the current Waves deal, they'll be making money off you down the road with WUP and Upgrades. It's a similar situation with Steinberg Educational software, anyone can buy it (Steinberg doesn't ask us for Educational proof) but don't feel bad because Educational customers pay the same Upgrade prices as every other customer.

[sqigls]

I don't often buy Waves.
But when I do, it's 90 something % off

[macmuse]

Waves H-Comp for 29$ (today only), using their code PLUGINDAY20 results in 9$!

Where / what site has that discount?

[koolkeys]

Waves H-Comp for 29$ (today only), using their code PLUGINDAY20 results in 9$!

Where / what site has that discount?

The waves.com site is where you can use it. Though we have also discovered that everyplugin.com will also honor it. Both will come to the same price, even though everyplugin.com starts with a lower price (their own discount is about $4 off, and using the coupon gets you the other $16 off, making the plugin $9).

Brent

[macmuse]

Thanks

[Kalamata Kid]

Keep in mind that H-comp is in the Waves Gold Bundle.
http://www.waves.com/plugins/h-comp-hyb ... -to-h-comp
Last Black Friday I paid $146 IIRC for the Gold and that is $4 per plugin.
If I didn't jump at the $146 deal I could have gotten it later for $122.
But then again the code that would have given me the $122 I used it to get
some other Waves plugin. In the end I am very happy with the purchases.