Reply To: u-he Black Friday Sale – 52% off select synths and plugins

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On Kirean said

On lamia6 said

How’s Spire for $54.80 for an attention grabber? LOL. So much for me figuring 69 was a hell of a deal.

https://www.gear4music.com/us/en/Recording-and-Computers/Reveal-Sound-Spire/3NUS

Dammit. Back to 129. Would have bit instantly.

And yeah. Gears4Music is legit. Bought from them many times without issues.

Well, @lamiia and you have made the case. I’ll try to check with them for deals in the future. These recent deals were pretty amazing. I’ve spent a lot of time watching prices this year and think I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out the best deals. Most of the time the best deals are between Audio Deluxe, Best Service, Plugin Boutique, and JRR Shop. But if you’re a regular customer, once you get hooked into loyalty programs for the developers, that will tip the scales in favor of that retailer. Then add in the free with purchase stuff that Audio Deluxe, Best Service and Plugin Boutique do and that also can tip the scale, especially for low cost purchases. More and more, I’m finding JRR Shop and Audio Deluxe consistently have similar prices, but when you add in Audio Deluxe’s loyalty program — even without their free with purchase plugins — the end price is lower than JRR Shop (I’m pretty sure that the owner is well aware of that). Consequently, I’m not spending as much time with JRR Shop if the price is only 1 or 2 percent lower than Audio Deluxe, because, with Audio Deluxe’s loyalty program, their prices are better. Now, Lamia6 throws another retailer in the mix that has beaten all of the others, Gear4Music on certain deals, so I’ll start watching them.

Once we’re past Black Friday, I feel almost certain that I’m going to move forward on my original plans to add a price comparison section to LinkedMusicians and automate this stuff. I’ll try to have Audio Deluxe, Plugin Boutique, Best Service, and Gear4Music. I’ll do another post about it. But I’ll love to get some feedback. LM is starting to get a lot more traffic, of course, but it’s enough where I’ve heard from one excellent developer that he’s been seeing more traffic from LinkedMusicians than VI_Control, but asked me why there aren’t many posts about his libraries here. I told him it’s because we’re a very young community, and the situation will likely change in the next 12 months based on our growth.

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