chuckebaby

odyssey70

chuckebaby
im am very surprised at the suspicion level (then again not really). with this offer.
im still trying to figure out how one would feel slighted if they did extend the offer ?
what you got was a great deal..but now you feel slighted because they would extended that deal ?
who cares.
 
forgive me if im wrong but I don't see the slight there. all this moaning and complaining, some people you can't give them anyone anything without them trying to look for a loop hole.
 
those same people with suspicions who will miss out on this deal will surely be complaining later on that they missed out on the deal and "why weren't we given more time".
Please just let this be. what your doing is possibly screwing up future great deals from Cakewalk in fear of causing a hysteria on their forums like with this lifetime upgrades. Please don't mess it up for the rest of us who want to take advantage of these deals. 

It just does not feel incredible deal or special deal anymore.

that's your opinion and I respect that. but with that being said...
im signed up for life.  If your paying monthly, annually, yearly, in 2025 I will still have free sonar updates.
sorry you don't feel the same.

Right now it feels just good business, not special deal or incredible deal for me or anyone else. Just business.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...-through-m3444528.aspx

I'm pretty happy that Cakewalk extended the deal.
My upgrade to lifetime was set at $199 no matter what I did ...
I played the cards I was dealt and said hey I'm laying out around 15 hundred over my normal bills this month ...
There was no way I could take money for set in stone financial priority's and use it just to grab a deal for August 31 st ...
 
That is just not the way I roll ...
 
Thank you Cakewalk for giving me a little more time to re-catch my breath  .....I'm grateful 
 
Kenny
 

Anderton

MBGantt
If nothing else Cake should have brought it back as a later offer instead of just extending it like this. 

 
They didn't extend the offer. It's a different offer.
 
But suppose they brought it back in November. Think of all the people moaning and whining "I bought it in September or October. You just did that to squeeze more cash out of people. If I'd waited I could have had it for less." Not to mention adding incredible complications to the accounting end of things...what would happen to the monthly people who then upgraded during the non-LTU time, or if someone bought SONAR in October and then decided to upgrade in November, or what stores selling SONAR would do about raising and then lowering the price...
 
It's much fairer to the customer base to say "Okay, you missed out on the great deal, but here's a pretty sweet deal as a follow-up."
 
Cakewalk's only product is NOT renewals to SONAR Platinum. It's one source of income out of many.

CW will get same emails around early-mid Dec and have SAME procrastinators on 1 Jan - too busy, didn't have money, needed money for Xmas upgrades (on all other SW that comes up about holiday time). etc.
 
CW may as well just make it a permanent offer and be done with it
 
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As Craig mentioned the existing sale which allowed prorated pricing for customers who had upgraded to SONAR this year has indeed ended. That was a super low price starting as low as $99 to reward annual members who had upgraded twice. Now the upgrade price starts at $199 until Dec.
 
There may be a brief lag while the new prices got reflected on the store. This happens sometimes with Cleverbridge but it should show $199 fairly soon (if it doesn't already show that).
PS: Any orders placed in that window of time where it showed the old price would obviously be honored :)
 

Waaayyy back in August my store price was $199. But I upgraded from X3 so the price would have been the same overall if I had upgraded 12 months ago. Still it seems I did see $149 in my account at one point last summer but cannot confirm it.

I wish cakewalk would stop emailing me about the lifetime deal. I've had emails all summer and then another today. I took the offer a while back, and it makes me feel paranoid something has gone wrong with the purchase, and I double check it still says valid until Christmas '37
 
They have my purchase history, the emials could be a bit more selective. When you are told stuff you don't need to again and again, it can lead to you missing something you do need to know about when it occasionally appears.
 
At least I get emails now after years of fixing a breaking. Thanks Joey

I bought the lifetime package back in March and it's just about paid off now. I've been using Sonar day and night for that last few months doing sound checks on new mics. It's been working almost perfectly for me. I had a few glitches but I worked thru them. I've done about a zillion mic tests and have become very adapt at using Sonar now. I can pump out recordings in no time now. So I've gotten past the should I or shouldn't I get the lifetime updates. It's a done deal for me and now I can reap the benefits of free upgrades for life...sounds like a great deal to me.
 

soens
Waaayyy back in August my store price was $199. But I upgraded from X3 so the price would have been the same overall if I had upgraded 12 months ago. Still it seems I did see $149 in my account at one point last summer but cannot confirm it.

I did too. Then I looked maybe two weeks later and it was 199.00.
I asked about this in the store and was ignored. Glad to know someone else saw this too.
 
 

kennywtelejazz
I'm pretty happy that Cakewalk extended the deal.
My upgrade to lifetime was set at $199 no matter what I did ...
I played the cards I was dealt and said hey I'm laying out around 15 hundred over my normal bills this month ...
There was no way I could take money for set in stone financial priority's and use it just to grab a deal for August 31 st ...
 
That is just not the way I roll ...
 
Thank you Cakewalk for giving me a little more time to re-catch my breath  .....I'm grateful 
 
Kenny
 

 
Kenny's post says it all! If ever there was a bloke that deserves a shot at lifetime updates, and I am sure there are plenty of other devoted Sonar users who will now have a chance to nab them.
 
I already have lifetime updates. What I paid for them has not changed just because they extended the offer, so why would I feel any less happy with my deal? Any other reaction seems pretty selfish and petulant.
 
To be honest, I thought from the get go it is quite possible that Cakewalk would never step away from lifetime updates - it will become the new model. Anything else could get terribly messy and be a very hard sell.

Popular demand? Absolute hyperbolic bull ****.
 
Push, push, push and then this?????????
 
Total ****.
 
Whoever devised all this stoooooopidity should be gone immediately.
 
Anybody at Gibson paying attention to the children?