i have a great many waves plugins and i love them, i have heaps of other plugs including melda stuff and fab filter stuff heaps of other stuff, i just prefer my waves plugins i find them easier and faster to get what i want and prefer the final sound more. as for wup, well i upped gold when they announce 3 new plugins mentioned above were being released, have many many more single and collection plugs that i will gladly re up when v10 comes out or there is some other incentive and it will only cost $300 which for the amount of plugins and the time between re upping is peanuts to keep my fav and most used plugs up to date, i spend more than that on a night out. love waves and wup doesn't bother me, it is what it is and it doesn't matter what others think, only what i think.

Ha Ha.
 
I just got a non-transferable voucher in the amount of $225 that I can use for up to 50% of a product purchase.
 
Well, since I own Mercury, SSL and the Full Abbey Road Collection. What else could I possibly buy (besides hardware I don't need) from Waves?