I hope your right - but it seems optimistic.
Oh... €, $ OR £ ?
Oh... €, $ OR £ ?
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$8,995 in USD....Sure it's optimistic but if it's higher than that some of us "dreamers" won't be able to have more than a dream.....Remember VSL metioned "It's not a dream"....well if it's 10,000 dollars it might as well be a dream right [:P]? Cheaper price equals more buyers or pricey and fewer buyers...I'm hoping VSL will be affordable so more people can have the opportunity for their high quality samples. Seeing the fact they are advertising on Northern Sound Forum seems to me that they are aiming to have the price "reachable" so more sales can be made. One can hope!
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Austin, I wish I shared your optimism. VSL has shown only inflexibility on pricing - almost denying competition pressures. Their pricing models seem to have worked, though. This last summer's 30% discount pricing was partially spurred on by a 15% correction in the currency rates (USD to Euro) and just clearing off stock before this huge release.
Could be wrong though - often am [:)]
(could they have tired of releasing more hints - seems stuck on 4 days)
Rob
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The hints always updates around 3 pm pacific time here. So in about 30 minutes Rob. I hope my optimism is not just that but a reality for what VSL will announce concerning the price. It's true with what your saying about their inflexibility but it's christmas time and and [:P]. I hope they realize that even though they are giving more that in order to sell more they can't keep upping the price way beyond Pro Edition was selling for. If you watch group buys for example companies can make great profits while selling far cheaper...I hope VSL is reasonable for the loyal user such as me and all the other great guys on this forum.
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I've watched the post count grow in this countdown with some deal of humour!
But as far as discounts go, i offer the following.
Economically, the sample market is the same as any other. Customer demand, competition, and niche awareness all play a part. Many of you have postulated the likelyhood of discounts, customer loyalty, etc., and speculated on the eventual price of the cube. (If indeed this countdown is the cube. It could very well be another fine product like..........epic piccolos.)
But in any market there are the 'discounters', the 'cheapos', and those at the top of the range, whose intent and product strategy is not mass production, but fine craftsmanship. VSL must count as one of the latter, a large complete, and superbly crafted product, constructed carefully and lovingly with exacting standards as the objective, not 'near enough is good enough.'
You can't buy fine cut diamonds at a discount, nor a yacht whose every part has been assembled with quality as the benchmark. (I've done some sailing)
And you wouldn't get a BMW motorcycle at a knockdown price. Stradivarius Instruments don't come cheap, and they don't go down in price.
So, while i admire your wishful thinking, VSL, the Rolls Royce of sample libraries isn't going to be marketed at a ford price, and nor should it. Like Fine diamonds, classy yachts. stradivari strings, and rolls royces, VSL is the top of the range, and any attempt on their part to indulge in group buys or heavy discounting as a market strategy would diminish the reputation they have, and ultimately, reduce the value of your investment. (IMHO)
Regards to you all,
Alex.
(Only three more sleeps!)
[H]
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3 days, and nothing new really that I can see. Algorithms, has that been mentioned before? Probably, I was offline over the weekend.
Anyway I've just this minute finished unpacking the Pro Ed dvd's, so I'm off for a beer. Or I would be if the pub was open. Ah well...
Update and Specials downloading to be done now.
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I had a feeling someone would mention the porsche versus toyota type of argument. I know VSL is top of the line and it shows. Their articulations and details plus innovation far exceeds almost any competitor around....as VSL puts it...."What competition?". I am just saying that even though porsche's are more than a toyota they aren't as much money as say a custom made italian car that is only made for 10 people a year! Nothing I am aware of costs 10,000 dollars for sampling of anything except the possibility of the Symphonic Cube. They can charge premium but not above and beyond where most people's wallets can't have enough money in it to cover the cost.....
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hehe Austin - i'm begining to think your as much a junkie as I am! [[:D]]
Chinablu... that seems very pessimistic. The only potential customer would be Hans Zimmer. And even he would think twice [[:D]]
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3 days.. arg!
The thought of a 25600 price tag scares me. I still think its way more than what it actually will cost, but just the thought of it still scares me. I'm stil expecting it to be twice the Pro Ed price though
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@Christian Marcussen said:
3 days.. arg!
The thought of a 25600 price tag scares me. I still think its way more than what it actually will cost, but just the thought of it still scares me. I'm stil expecting it to be twice the Pro Ed price though
I understand that it's going to cost £6000.
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How did you come to that understanding? Isen't £6000 around twice the Pro Ed price?
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@Christian Marcussen said:
The thought of a 25600 price tag scares me
Surely none of these teaser figures can relate to any price whatsoever. There wouldn't be any sense in it since there are 3 main currencies...
@PaulR: £6k? Insider information or speculation?
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Well I haven't guessed wrong yet as I spotted what looked like a graphic representation of convolution on the main page and thought it was MIR - promptly announced the next day. All that is to say that any numeric figure shown is not a monetary one but perhaps computational in nature: MIR again?
VSL is too classy to shout some large monetary figure in it's presentation. When's the last time a salesman hit you with the price-tag of an expensive item before he told you what the heck it does?