Angry rant

Despite being told i "must Buy' the new concrete limiter before january 29th for only £35 before the price goes up to full £59 and doing so (silly me) i see cakewalk are typically touting for new customers instead of looking after the loyal ones by offering all 3 pro channel modules for £69. 

Great price... shame for those that already have one or two, was just about to buy the comp/expander pack for £59 but certainly wont be paying an extra £10 for something i already own.

Is there any company that does actually reward loyalty anymore?

I seriously wish companies wouldn't muck around with prices every 5 mins. Offer a lower price and stick to it and stop trying to offer perceived value when there is none. 
Major fail IMHO

cliffr


I think you're rant is a bit misleading.
 
In what way are they touting for new customers by offering the monthly special you refer to ?.
You have to own X1 Expanded before you can take up the "Pro-Channel Bundle" on the monthly special for $99 USD.
 
It's normal for any company to run specials, be thay weekly, monthly, or random.
 
So what ?.
You were obviously happy enough at the time to buy - and it's almost always going to happen, that "New Specials" are
going to be equal or better than the last one offered.
 
You could have included a link to the special like Sickvision did in his  thread - he's also having a wee meltdown over pro-channel modules.
 
Nobody's holding guns to your heads ... and like I said, this is absolutely normal marketing practice, in pretty much all retail
markets covering a great range of products.
 
Take a deep breath and calm down - stress is bad for you :-)
 
 
Cheers - Cliff

Yes, you are totally right in what you say, i cant really complain too much, i guess im saying that some sort of crossgrade system may be fairer to all those that already own a module. Rant over. :)


Regards


Bibs

The fear of future pricing is very low in the decision making process of my purchasing habits.  As a consumer I'm in full charge of accepting the price point I'm comfortable with at a time when my desire outweighs my concerns of whether it may be less in the future or others may get a better deal than me.  As was stated, no guns were used in this production and trying to get new customers is always going to exist.  

The only guarantee loyalty tends to get is discounted future upgrade pricing and tends to be the the only benefit of loyalty I expect or hope for.

thanks god some else think this PC neverending content lala is just not how to treat the faithful sonar gurus
 these 3 plugas should of been in the update for free,  period. at lease a 3 for 1 deal but im not dishing out for 2 more pugs just cus there hard wired in my daw ,this  is my only real issue with roland,.

2 more pugs - Beagle won't be happy with that.

I mean, somebody went to work and put in the hours to make those things. Should they not be paid?

wizard71Rant over. :)

Welcome, you had me believing it at first but I just could not really feel you had your heart in the performance. I just didn't scene any real anger and it ended so quickly. Nice for a beginner but you should work on your ranting technique.

Sickvision, the $10 deals were heavily promoted around the time CL was released. The 30% of deal on synths is active now and was included in the survey email that has been going out this week.

wizard, your gonna get miffed with a lot of pro audio companies marketing departments generally then . the trick is to try and 2nd guess em... well try to..

a few pointers..

1) april is new financial year here.. so people will spend their budget in march so it don't get capped the next financial year.. so thats why offers now.

2) everyone is fighting for your xmas money + new years money .. so I save up esp. for plugins like fab filter etc.. which are a lot more normally

3)August (and holiday time) again a lean time. bargains are to be had..

4)some even do easter sales..

5)rumours of a new version of a DAW etc.. wait they normally have a grace period, so wait back a bit.

but cakewalk being from Boston.. should give a special discount on St Patricks day , to people with Patrick in their full name ;-) (oddly one of my names is that)

the z3ta 5 bundle I haven got one of em packs.. so tricky as it wasn't cheap when I got it..

the PC thing is tricky , because some of us use a few things and would rather use the Fx as VST's as-well across with other things *OR* we have nice fx already.. it's tempting I won't deny and it's ease of access to em.

I've had good luck contacting sales,and doing deals via email,give it a go,depends what you wan't though.