Portfolio Price Too Steap

I agree - I too want to upgrade to Portfolio but the price seems wrong.

I'm sure the upgrade price calculator isn't working correctly. I asked Bob a similar question earlier.

It seems to disregard purchases and resources I own other than the old base package owned years ago,

I'm also not sure what the NEW symbol means - I own already a lot which are classified as new which leads me to believe it's not correctly calculating prices.

Any other comments?

James

Jacob Hantla said:

The upgrade cost to Portfolio compared to the upgrade cost to the other collections seems awfully steep.

I don't know - it seems like Christmas to me!  Upgrading to the Portfolio cost me just over $700.  By the time I had gone through 3 pages of the comparison charts plus a couple of other  items, I had received over $2800 of new resources.  Good enough for me.  Thank you Logos.

Alex. Scott

Was hoping for a payment plan for ver 4 upgrade, $2325.04 USD for upgrading from Scholar's Library Gold is just way too much for me.

Steven Yu said:

Was hoping for a payment plan for ver 4 upgrade, $2325.04 USD for upgrading from Scholar's Library Gold is just way too much for me.

Stephen,

Didn't Logos just add your country to their list of paymant plan eligibility? If it is, go through the checkout (CLICK SLOWLY & CAREFULLY.)  Right before "confirm order" there should be an option for full payment and payment plan. Look at the right side column. Choose payment plan to see the options. Be sure not to confirm by accident! If it does not appear it must not be available. Remember to back out of the order process and empty your shopping cart to avoid suprises.

I likewise thought Portofolio was way too high and so I went with Platinum.

Mark,

I'm in your situation. I have (by coincidence) already purchased a few of the Gold items that I wanted, and of the remaining resources, they weren't valuable to me (at least at this time)

I chose to keep my pre-pub orders and just thank Logos for the nice crossgrade package.

I too thought the Portfolio upgrade was incredibly steep. But after looking more closely at the resources, they seem to be geared towards the technically minded uber-scholar. So that may help explain the steep price.

For example, I doubt many pastors, especially those of multi-million dollar churches, will ever need or use the Ugaritic Library for any sermons.

Phil, I sure hope that makes it into the advertising copy. 

JackCaviness said:

Does he come to our greasy spoon or must we make the trip to Washington?

I'm not sure, but I think I remember hearing something about chili and salsa.

I'm with Alex, I feel like it's a wonderful Christmas present. Between Platinum & Portfolio I only looked up the prices on 7 resources/collections that I would want, and they added up to over $2,500.  My Portfolio upgrade price was $727 so I went for it. Thank you Logos!

Mark A. Smith said:

Gary Butner said:

I likewise thought Portofolio was way too high and so I went with Platinum.

Platinum would only cost me $232. However there is only $100 of stuff I'd want in that package. There are only 26 items I'd get in the upgrade. Some are sets or collections so the number of works is much larger than that. Don't want Believer's Bible Commentary, Simeon, Classic Greek Commentaries. No offense, please, but those are second or third tier sets to me. At one time the Classic were the best available. No longer. Horae?? No time to wade through that. Dated indeed. Pillar, BE, and BNT are better and I have them. Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible is good, but I have Baker's Encyclopedia, Anchor-Yale, both ISBEs, New Bible, and some others. The Bible Made Easy should have been in the Christian Home or Bible Study Library. It's not an upgrade for a Pastor, Seminarian, Professor or anyone who is already at the Gold level IMO.

I don't have the Baker Enc. of Counseling. Might be interested in that but passed it up in pre-pub. Don't want Pink, Torrey, Bunyan, and even Berkouwer. The numerous texts from the Biblical Essentials Collection are lay oriented. I am not interested in the history of the Oxford Movement nor its theology. Maybe I should be. Sorry. Bernard? Wouldn't pay much for him. Apostle's Creed (Swete) nope. The Apostolic Fathers? I have Lightfoot and the entire church fathers collection. Would I be missing something important? Robertson's grammar might be nice, but not too needed. Passed up on pre-pub. Concise Coptic-English Lexicon?? I don't know Coptic. Maybe I should? What Logos resource is in Coptic that is included in Platinum?? Why would I need a lexicon for a language I have no resources for? What is this doing here? Konfused.

Oh, well. It was nice to get a chance to look. I know others clearly have different resources to start with or will find many of these more compelling than I do. I'm grateful to have what I do.

Maybe I should counter with an offer of $75.00.

I've had Logos for only a little more than a year, so my collection is not as developed. In the Platinum that's not in L3 Gold, I have only Baker's NT Commentary (Hendriksen/Kistemaker) Therefore, BECNT and Pillar alone more the justify the upgrade to L4 Platinum. The rest will be bonus material.

There comes a point, though, which is hard for me to justify going higher, and everyone's needs are different. The Platinum seems to be about right for me. I just need Logos to slow down on completing some of the pre-pubs. [:D]

Speaking of NICOT/NT, I had ordered it pre-pub, but
considering that it would take one-third of my annual ministry
reimbursement and I have almost all of it in hard copy, I reluctantly
decided to cancel the order.

Bill

Simeon is worth every penny. And you get the BDAG in this Platinum bundle. The neat thing about Simeon is that covers the whole Bible. And I would agree that he's one of my favorites to read. His commentaries are not on every verse., but I almost always open his commentaries up to see if he said anything on a passage. I'm very curious to read some of Pink's stuff too, and it certainly helps to get the Pillar commentaries. I think it's a great deal. 

Mark A. Smith said:

Those of you who got the Portfolio for under $1,000 must have a bunch of $$ invested in Logos already. Bless you.

God bless the wives and children for eating beans and ramen noodles for so long. [Z] [}]

Simeon's sermon outlines are extremely well organized and written. You can easily read over the entire sermon in a moments time by scanning over the outline headings and then dig deeper into particular portions that you find most interesting. Some are longer than others, and in comparison, they are much shorter than Spurgeon's sermons.

How really practical is that collection. I have the silver and it is hard for me to fathom getting through all of it in a lifetime.  But at the price, I was hoping Bob or Dale would come install it for me in person.

Actually the price is a discount compared to buying all of that individually but I would never do that since most of what is on the list is not useful to me.  I will be getting the NICOT/NT soon though.

I'd go for Portfolio IF:

I get free Logos Stock

I get to sit on the Logos Board of Directors

I get a cushy office in downtown Bellingham next to Bob's

I get a free lunch with Bob at my choice of restaurant every month

Oh wait! I live in GA across the US from WA. Scratch that!

Or I could just go Platinum.

Too bad I didn't bet everyone $5 that Platinum would be one of the next base packages. Then I'd have enough money to pay for the upgrade! [:D]

This is just for information really, because Like many of us I feel that Logos has served us well in the past and have every confidence for the future.

I have just upgraded from Gold to Platinum. While examining the portfolio collection I found some resources that I would like so I added those as well (I had an upgrade budget that the generous platinum pricing did not exceed).

Returning to the 'upgrade' page the price for the Portfolio collection had been reduced by exactly the cost of the platinum upgrade (to be expected) BUT the $300 of other resources that I had purchased, all of which are part of the portfolio collection, made no difference to the price. In other words, there was no discount at all for my now having a larger chunk of the portfolio package, not even 1% of the original costs.

As I said, this is for information only. Like others I found that the contents of the portfolio seem to be an eclectic mix between the 'uber scholars' and the needs of the new Christian, so I had already determined that the portfolio was never going to be on my list and my best course was to focus on the judicious use of the pre-pubs. The Platinum package seems to meet my needs very specifically, thank you again Logos.