Dynamic pricing is broken on St. Vladimir Seminary collections

Br Damien-Joseph OSB
Br Damien-Joseph OSB Member Posts: 220 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

I went to go read the Book of Pastoral Rule by St. Gregory today and saw to my surprise that I didn't have it in my library--I can't believe it wasn't included in any of the base packages I've owned in the past twelve years (every priest or soon-to-be priest reads this text, so I just assumed it was in every mid-level base package since ever...). So I went to the Verbum store to pick it up and see what deals I could get in collections that would include it. I think there are dynamic pricing problems in most of the packages that contain this essential book.

In the Gregory the Great Collection (6 vols), of which I own 4 volumes, the price the collection is being sold to me is $39.18, even though the two volumes I do not own are each priced (not on sale, this is their regular price) at $12.99 and $20.99. See below:

According to maths, I should be seeing this collection sold to me at $33.98 at a minimum, but according to Logos' own bulk-purchasing discount rules, the "dynamic price" discount would be even lower than that, since these six books are bundled together at a percentage off of what they would be altogether and not bundled together to be sold at the sum of their individual prices.

The bad maths continues with the two Popular Patristics collections in which this Pastoral Rule finds itself: the 10-volume one and the 20-volume one.

For me, the 10-volume collection contains five volumes I do not own, and comes to a total of $52.70. And yet, if we look at the 20-volume collection, it contains an additional 2 volumes I do not own (which have mystery prices!) and actually comes out cheaper, at $50.46:

So... I just want to confirm what is going on here in terms of dynamic pricing and the pricing strategy of these St. Vladimir Seminary Press collections, since especially the 20-volume one is missing prices on some of its individual pieces, which tells me that they may not be getting calculated into the dynamic price of the whole collection...

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,397

    bumping in hopes of provoking a response

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  • TL Putnam
    TL Putnam Member, Logos Employee Posts: 68

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The issue should be corrected now.

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