Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[SHall1000]

What’s up with Plug-in Boutique’s £/$ exchange rates. They seem to have the ratio the wrong way round!

Looks ok to me.

Rob Papen eXplorer upgrade is $€74 on the RP site and JRR but £84.95 on Plug-in Bouutique. I’ve seen other examples.

[wangeroge]

Does anybody have a spare Audified MixChecker license from the Plugin Boutique giveaway?

[revvy]

@ Mayfield: Can’t believe you’re still banging on about being hard done by.

Once you swear when dealing with a written or verbal complaint (or even in arguments with sensitive types) you’re sunk. You lose every time, in my experience.

Is it fair? Who cares, it’s how it is.

I say this as someone who swears a f**k load and has had to pay the price multiple times. Dealing with the public? Stop f**king swearing.

I agree with what you're saying..putting the "f" word in a cust serv request crossed the line. I work with the public in an area where I have to tell people what to do, usually against their wishes. I get cursed at daily. I'd get admonished if I responded in kind.

My point with PA is , to me ,a message with the "f" word in the title is different than a message filled with expletives aimed at individuals in their company. Having a zero tolerence policy is fine if you also have responsive customer service but when it takes 5 days and 3 customer serv requests to get a reply , then its time to solve customer problems , not be petty and demand a 4th request before sending a download link.

Anyway I'm waiting for resolution from Paypal. I just want to get 808 Studio for a project I'm on and want a sale price (not from PA)

Yeah I’ve had poor quality CS from PA too. I kept a lid on the swearing that time, well done me

I got the last laugh though as they were so inept I ended up with them gifting me something that was a mistake. Result!

[re.mark]

Anyone with Soundtoys Effect Rack? Could you check your account for upgrade offers listed.
Curious if there's anything to be gained by buying Effect Rack then upgrading in the account to the full Soundtoys 5 bundle.

[fairlyclose]

I am very very reluctant to get anything from PA because, as far as I am concerned, they are unethical and refused to let me sell something (in the days that was worthwhile) because they said it was part of a bundle upgrade when it wasn't - and the invoices showed it wasnt. They were rude and dismissive. Easily my most disliked shop.

[Ceej]

Anyone with Soundtoys Effect Rack? Could you check your account for upgrade offers listed.
Curious if there's anything to be gained by buying Effect Rack then upgrading in the account to the full Soundtoys 5 bundle.

I see an upgrade price of $129. I actually own the Effects Rack plus Little Plate and Little Alterboy that aren't included in the Rack - not sure if those are included in the Upgrade Price computation, but it's safe to say you won't see an upgrade price any lower than $129 anyway.

FYI, if you get the Effects Rack, you get everything except Little Alterboy and Little Plate. All their other plugins are included in the Effects Rack - you don't get some of the other "Little" plugins either, but you do get their big brothers (eg., PrimalTap instead of Little PrimalTap). And the Effects Rack UI is resizeable, so you don't even give up too much screen real estate if you want to, say, use only Echoboy. IMHO $129 for the Effects Rack is a much better deal that $229 for the full bundle. Heck, if you really want everything, Little Alterboy and Little Plate are $39 each now, so both of those plus the Effects Rack is still $22 cheaper.

[LFO8]

Have any of you ever seen Lennard Digital do a decent BF deal? I’m close to pulling the trigger on Sylenth (been demo’ing it for a month or so now), but might as well wait it out one more week to see.

It has been reduced, not massively, on previous Black Fridays, so I'd hold back for a week if I were you.

Cheers. That’s what I’ll do.

[chk071]

I think the lowest price I've seen was a Christmas/New Year sale for 99 €. Anything else was still above 130 €. Maybe they'll have a Black Friday sale, but, even if they have, in my eyes, it's still too much for the synth.

YMMV, of course.

[GaryG]

Not really worthy of a bargain post but if (like me) you picked up Soundtoys little radiator recently then you could (should) have an upgrade to the full version for $19 in your account. Also full Soundotoys for $209, $20 cheaper than on it's own?

[JonSolo]

Is there a path from Waves Diamond to Waves Horizon? Nevermind, I don't see one. I have like 90% of the Horizon plugins.

[telecharge]

Ridiculous price drop for Waves Horizon -about 50% off.
It's a flash sale for two days now. Upgrades included.
I hate to say this, but it's the Lowest Price Ever.

Question for anyone who knows. Do you retain the original licenses used to upgrade to a bundle or are they converted/lost? I'm thinking the Waves recommended upgrade path is not in my best interest.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Is there a path from Waves Diamond to Waves Horizon? Nevermind, I don't see one. I have like 90% of the Horizon plugins.

just login and go to upgrades. It’s only $74 to go from Platinum and three other plugins to Horizon for me which is a pretty cheap WUP plus extra 20 plugins for me. Your price should be loads lower than that.

[everyPlugin.com]

Is there a path from Waves Diamond to Waves Horizon?

Yes there is.

[everyPlugin.com]

Do you retain the original licenses?

No. They all converted to a single license of the bundle.
(Except Abbey Road)

[telecharge]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks, Koby!