Deals -- Perennial List of Things on Sale - GAS Warning!

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#1623

Possible USA and Europe only (?) - Free Waves Element 2, IK Multimedia T-RackS ONE among other things by downloading the app magazine app “Readly”, then loading the magazine “Beat”. You may need to do a free trial though for me I could freely read the magazine and follow the directions to register the cover cd material without a trial.

If it wasn’t for my love of actual paper magazines (and lack of comfort reading a magazine on a device) I could almost see myself getting a legit subscription to the app.
Quite a bit of content for the money (has Future Music and other magazines I enjoy).

#1624

I don’t know if this is news or not but the MPC One is stupid cheap at the moment

https://vintageking.com/akai-professional-mpc-one?adlclid=ADL-bdc25e8b-15dd-4816-8d77-9f985eec158f

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#1625

isn’t $699 USD normal street price?

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#1626

I thought so too. Unless people were marking it up to 799 on reverb when there was a shortage. There’s still a shortage now but sometimes we all want to know we were the first ones ones who bought that MPC model

#1627

Ahh OK. Just a massive difference from the list price, seems to be odd marketing practice for a new piece of gear.

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#1628

Standard practice (cough BS) from AKAI. The MPC Live 2 lists at $1999 and sells for 40% less.

AK-eye-roll

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#1629

Its okay everybody, you can put your wallets away, just a simple misunderstanding.

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#1630

Sennheiser HD 25s are $50 off at Sweetwater.

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#1631

mod edit, links added.

friendly reminder to add links to the deals you find

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#1632

Thanks buddy for the assist.

#1633

Does anyone know if Wavesfactory (not Waves) does regular sales? I’ve never bought any of their stuff before.

#1634

Not the same technique, but same annoying as this

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#1635

This happens with google ads for these big retailers too - there is a sponsored link showing a number that’s 10-20% lower than you expect and when you click through it is bogus - I’ve seen this so many times

it’s a knowing deception imho, something that advertising regulators should be fining these companies about

it brings me back to the plugin deals listed above - it’s manipulation and disingenuous

I picked up something having advised folk to be wary and I regretted it immediately, primarily by being suckered in by the hard sell aspects - even at 10% of the supposed asking price I felt it was not worth it

will probably never use it again whereas something good that’s priced consistently and very fairly such as a ValhallaDSP plugin for a bit more would get used all the time - it’s a much better model all round - I won’t be falling for this heavy discount trap again … for sure there are genuine bargains to be had once a year or so

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#1636

Black Box Analog Design HG-2 69,99$

ACME Audio Opticom XLA-3 39,99$

Phil’s Cascade 49,99$

Plugin Alliance sent out a 20$ voucher recently, which could be combined with these offers.

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#1637

so for once i clicked a facebook ad for something like 60% off the d16 group classic machines bundle. i decided i might save it for later in the month when my finances are a bit more in check but now for the life of me i can’t find that ad with the discount code.

anyone else spot this and could help me out?

#1638

Might’ve been bogus ad. Looks like they do a summer sale once a year for %35 off but that hasn’t happened yet as far as I can tell.

#1639

i think it was for pluginboutique so maybe they ran that ad i saw. i went so far as to put the thing in my cart and add this promo code and it seemed to work, just didnt pull the trigger

#1640

There hasn’t been anything about it in the D16 newsletters yet.
The 35% sale started mid July last year.

#1641

Found it! Was actually for the Silverline collection on pluginboutique.

Code is pei9zqby , 60% off.

Sorry I can’t figure out how to get the proper link.

EDIT

Found the original ad i had mentioned, which was indeed for the classic boxes collection.

Code is jfwnvelf , also 60% off

I’ve just discovered the Facebook Ad Library, which it claims to index both FB and Instagram ads. Also you apparently don’t need an account with either?

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#1642

Korg iOS apps are half price. Shame they aren’t AUv3 but Gadget is pretty fun, and the others do sound great

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