Reply To: What’s On Your Black Friday Wish List This Year?

[Peter Woods]

We’re only at Nov 1 and we’ve seen a ridiculous amount of deals. Since I’ve been posting deals, I can say that Plugin Boutique has been the most focused and prolific with pre-Black Friday sales promotions. I’m sure we’re going to see the other big retailers in this space starting up their promotions in a big way very soon. I realize that last year was intense, but we just entered November, and Black Friday deep discounting sales promotions began in September. Analytically, I find what they’ve done is significatly expanded the Black Friday longer than past years and it’s interesting to see how music producers respond to this. After a while, they get fatigue from being bombarded with offers and what normally would get a lot of attention suddenly seems routine.

I was already planning on NOT buying much this holiday season, so I’m just picking up the freebies and low cost deals. My favorite deal I’ve picked up so far wasn’t even on a special sale, it was a Superior Drummer preset bundle (I shared the guy’s info; I LOVE his presets, if you’re a rock fan, check out The Recreation Challenge, great stuff and priced lower than other preset makers, and I think this guy’s work is far better than some of the other SD3 preset makers).  I think the only thing that might tempt me would be an irresistable deal on a SDX, EZX, or EZMIX preset, USYNTH Caramel if it goes on sale like some of the other synths in the line for $5 or so, or any of a few plugin effects I’ve been considering. But I’m only buying if something is a crazy good deal — but I’m fully anticpating that we’ll see more crazy deals that tempt us, as well as compelling freebies.  Developers are getting very aggressive in attempting to grab marketshare and that’s great news for all of us.

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