damn them for not timing their marketing plan around YOU.friend_kami wrote:welcome to the customer side of ableton.Evengy wrote:Fuck "off", i upgraded my live 8 to suite a few days ago with a 30 € coupon. if i waited i could also save 60 € ;/
get used to it.
Ableton Live Suite | M4L | Powerbook | Launchpad | APC40 | Faderfox | 2x1200 | Xone:96 | ...Funk N. Furter wrote:Post properly.
fixed.Bizon wrote:I think all this offer means we have a short wait until Live 9.
It makes sense for them to provide an offer like this and release the new version the next day, week or even month.
I see this more as a way to increase working capital to fund their current operations. It makes sense why they would keep doing these different kinds of offers (like they have) in order to generate some kind of revenue stream to continue funding their operations. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out the fact that they have had increasing cash reserves over the last couple of years as a result several new products and needed to find a way to continue adding to the user base. No one in their right mind should be paying full price for Live until they release the new version, they will continue doing these kind of offers even as they release a new version.
Bizon wrote:I think all this offer means is we have a lot more waiting to do until Live 9.
It would not make sense for them to provide an offer like this just to release the new version the next day, week or even month.
I see this more as a way to increase working capital to fund their current operations (working on Live 9). It makes sense why they would keep doing these different kinds of offers (like they have) in order to generate some kind of revenue stream to continue funding their operations. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out the fact that they have had depleting cash reserves over the last couple of years as a result of no new product and needed to find a way to continue adding to the user base. No one in their right mind should be paying full price for Live until they release the new version, they will continue doing these kind of offers until they release a new version.
hahahahah i felt like thissporkles wrote:^ Are you sure about that? From the latest WikiLeaks batch:
Date: still a few days ago
From: Ableton sales dept.
To: Ableton promos dept.
CC: Gerhard, Robert, 3phase
Subject: RE:RE:It's on!!!
Good job, but better make it "a few days", in order to avoid suspicion! Can't wait to see Evengy's face when we launch this!
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Ten minutes ago Ableton promos dept. wrote:
> Date: also a few days ago
> From: Ableton promos dept.
> To: Ableton sales dept.
> Subject: RE:It's on!!!
>
> All is set on our end - 30% off sound good? We can have the campaign ready in a matter of hours.
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5 minutes ago Ableton sales dept. wrote:
>> Date: a few days ago
>> From: Ableton sales dept.
>> To: Ableton promos dept.
>> Subject: It's on!!!
>>
>> All right, people: Evengy is on board! It is time for a promo campaign!!!
are you kidding?Slightlydelic wrote:i dont get why they would advertise a promotion thats 6 (now 5) days away.
they've done them selves out of 6 days worth of sales income.
LoopStationZebra wrote:it's like a hipster commie pinko manifesto. Rambling. Angry. Nearly divorced from all reality; yet strangely compelling with a ring of truth.
What are all these words that rhyme with bacon?H20nly wrote:are you kidding?Slightlydelic wrote:i dont get why they would advertise a promotion thats 6 (now 5) days away.
they've done them selves out of 6 days worth of sales income.
they did themselves a favor. look at this thread. now when someone logs in and wonders what to decided, they get to see ALL of the speculations made over days past... in... threads just like this.
on the other hand, if they (Ableton) wait until the day of the sale, those potential buyers who may be on the shelf about the purchase... they look here to find the freshly brewed heaps of generalizations, implications, insinuations and lots of words that rhyme with bacon in new threads of disgust and disgruntlement. - then they decide not to buy based on all the lovely negative attitude problems in all the hot new threads\posts they get to read about from those of us using the forum whom happen to be... butt hurt... because the launch of this sale didn't coincided with some random moment when a credit card was already in hand.
No your sums are wrong:madman wrote:3 days & 33% off. Hmm... Lemme check the math on that.
3+3+3=9?
the God forsaken situation the instrumentation of the implementation and its association with the automation of web-based sales and the summations based on the insubordination of the population of the forum run by Ableton.Bizon wrote:What are all these words that rhyme with bacon?
LoopStationZebra wrote:it's like a hipster commie pinko manifesto. Rambling. Angry. Nearly divorced from all reality; yet strangely compelling with a ring of truth.
It's a short sale, so we wanted to make sure you all knew in advance!Slightlydelic wrote:i dont get why they would advertise a promotion thats 6 (now 5) days away.
Ableton_David wrote:It's a short sale, so we wanted to make sure you all knew in advance!Slightlydelic wrote:i dont get why they would advertise a promotion thats 6 (now 5) days away.
sounds good!photonal wrote:I also read on Wikileaks that 3Phase has been beta testing it *and* is totally happy with it!
