Does u-he ever have sales on, when are they typically?

[lentferj]

Thanks Urs. Maybe if you did another "Sale", for example, on Hive, you could offer Hive at 20% off, and then at the same time, offer your existing customers 30% off any of your products, then the existing customers would not feel disappointed or resentful, but still feel like they were getting an exclusive deal and valued.

You forgot about the crazy people like me who already have licensed ALL u-he stuff right now. So there would not be a benefit for me and I still might be pissed... or not . I like u-he's current attitude towards sales a lot, it rewards long term loyal customers more than cheapskates.

Melda for example has a different approach... they put 4 plugins on a 50% sale per week. So you just have to wait.. or if you are in desperate need have to pay more. I like u-he's approach better.

[bitcrush01]

Yep, we kind of have a pretty strict no-sales policy. One has to see sales for what they are: They grab you as a customer and then hope to milk you later, with upgrade fees and so on. Our policy however is about making upgrades free and therefore having things pay off in the long run for our customers. So when we do sales (coupon codes), we're pretty careful about them.

That said, I'll be honest: The sale we did for Diva's birthday last fall was the biggest single thing we ever did. We made a quarter of our 2016 revenue in just 4 days. It is very tempting to do another. But then, it only worked because we managed to give a great discount to our existing user base. Many, many people upgraded their collection to all of our stuff. It was possible because it also coincided with the release of Repro-1. There are numerous good reasons to believe that another sale like it won't be as successful as this one was.

We also got into trouble with the resellers who hadn't had the same conditions. So if we did another sale, we'd have to include the resellers and compete with them.

Anyhow... we're not putting much thought into these things atm as we got plenty of other things on our plate. We hope to be more flexible with many things (bundles?) once our new website launches.

I missed Diva's birthday sale. Was it similar to the current NI sale?

Edit: Found it. It was 30% off:
https://rekkerd.org/save-30-off-u-he-di ... hday-sale/

[matthewisgrand]

Any chance of a student discount if I am disabled enough for a bus pass but compus mentos enough for ubik please please?

[Urs]

I don't know. Public forums aren't really suited to discuss individual solutions. Maybe send an email to our support team?