60% off updates - why is there no diffence in price?

After your first 12 months of free updates on your new purchase of SONAR, you can buy another 12 months of updates for at least 50% off the regular price of SONAR.

gprokap
The exact verbiage in the offer is is "SAVE 60% OFF ANOTHER YEAR OF SONAR ROLLING UPDATES" 
 
This is bait and switch - plain an simple.
 
A year of rolling updates is $250 - NOT $499.  60% off $250 would be $100, and what I'd be willing to pay.

Room 9
Does anyone at Cakewalk actually believe someone would pay 250$ for a years worth of updates?????

Leee
Nothing personal, and I'm not personally attacking any single individual.  But I am constantly amazed at how people can find anything and everything to complain about.   Cakewalk offers discounts, but it's not good enough for people.  They offer lifetime updates, the offer wasn't long enough for some people.  They offer updates every month, people complain that they are a few days late or the updates don't have enough "good stuff" in them.

Cakewalk offers some of the best DAW software on the market, and offers it's customers some of the best deals, including free third-party plugins.  I bet people would still find a way to complain if they gave it all away for free.

No one is forcing these sales on you.  Either take the offer or find another software company that you think offers better deals.  But PLEASE enough with the ****ing and complaining.  Cakewalk is a fair and reputable company that I've never known to try and cheat their customers.  But they are however a commercial company that obviously needs to make a profit to continue selling their products.  Sales and advertising are the best ways to continue to make profits.  This isn't a charity organization.

(An unpaid for, unsolicited comment from a loyal customer)

gprokap

Leee
<Bunch of sycophantic fanboi-isms.>

(An unpaid for, unsolicited comment from a loyal customer)

So how much did it cost to get your lips surgically removed from their arse?

gprokap

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gprokap

Leee
<Bunch of sycophantic fanboi-isms.>

(An unpaid for, unsolicited comment from a loyal customer)

So how much did it cost to get your lips surgically removed from their arse?

You always need to flame someone who disagrees with you?

Is this not the internet?

Anderton

bobgassert
First year of Sonar Platinum rolling updates were only $149.00
Second year it was $199.00 , now its $249.00

 
Actually right now it's $199. Very few people buy any products at the full list price, they wait for a discount or promotion.
 
However it's also important to remember that unlike some programs, you don't have to update every year; SONAR will keep on working. With a program that forces people to pay for a subscription every year or their projects disappear, the company can charge less per year because that's guaranteed income (or extortion, if you prefer ). 
 
It used to be that each year had a different version of SONAR. If you wanted to update from a version that was two or three years old, it cost you more than if you updated from the previous version. That's kind of the way things work now, except that those who feel they need to upgrade every year end up paying more. I think a lot of people will skip an upgrade, as they often did in the past. If they do, the upgrade price probably ends up being about the same after two years, assuming they wait for a sale.