Christmas Sale Stress

Ted Weis

Just wondering if I'm the only weak one in the flesh.....

Are you stressed out over the huge Christmas sale?

Have you looked over the list of books on sale, not once, but 2-3 times, plotting what to buy?

Weighing the options of spending your year's allowance now, or allowing room for later pre-pubs?

Thinking about your choices throughout your waking hours?

Figuring out how your come up with more money?

Agonizing over what books will get left behind?

Fearful that you'll have regret "buying the wrong books" immediately afterwards?

If so, you've been infected with Logos Sale Influenza!

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Otto S. Carroll

I wouldn't call it stress, but today's offering (NICOT/NICNT) has been on my mind all day. I will probably get it, but I will give myself the rest of the day to make a final decision.

Rebecca RG

I've been cured! I am going to scour my life for the cash to buy the 2010 Master Collection...

I had spent days parsing the Master Collection list, trying to bring some order to that unwieldy list so I could make a decision about which individual 50% books to buy. In the process, I discovered all the interesting books tucked away in the biblical studies collections. My distress increased and my total spend increased. Then Matthew Jones pointed the way to recovery: the logic of one dollar. "Bob" showed up and we had the following conversation:

"Bob": Would you buy a collection of 2000 books at $1 a book if every single book was extremely valuable to you?
Me: Yes but... there is a lot in the Master Collection that I don't need and just don't want! I have Portfolio, plus some add-ons. About half are duplicates!
"Bob": Okay. Would you buy a collection of 1000 valuable books at $2 a book?
Me: I suppose so, but they would have to be really valuable! Maybe 70 percent of what remains is junk!
"Bob": (sotto voce: One person's junk is ...). Well yes, but suppose you were offered a collection of just 300 valuable books at $6.33 a book? Would you take that? Most of the books in Community Pricing go for more than that!

At that point, I got it: $1 trumps 50% off any day.

Rebecca

ps: I found partial to complete representation in the Master Collection from all of the following collections, and these were just the ones I was most interested in (sale price in parentheses is typically the usual price but is less than the individual book prices discounted 50%):

Second Temple Period Collection ($800)
Judaism & Christianity Collection ($400)
Studies of Jesus and the Gospels ($350)
Library of NT Studies: Jesus and the Gospels ($600)
Studies New Testament World (SNTW) ($135)
Origins of Ancient Israel Collection ($170)
Old Testament Studies Series Collection ($190)
Theology & Doctrine Collection ($210)

NetworkGeek

I wish there was an easy way to see how many books are not in my Collection. I have a lot of books, plus Portfolio, so my fear is that there are 200 books that are new to me and 125 I won't want. 75 books at $2000 is rather steep. I have tried looking through the list but there are just too many and it's too tedious comparing to my library.

It would be nice if you could get a 1 hour license to it, see which titles are new (I have everything rated 3 stars or up in my library so I could see them through a search of rating = 0), and then lose the license unless you buy it. That would make the buying decision much more clear!

Pam Larson

I wish there was an easy way to see how many books are not in my Collection.

Well, you can filter out most of what you don't own by setting unlocked to no:

http://www.logos.com/products/search?Specials=Featured&unlocked=no

But some of the books I own are still in what's left. I also like to filter by publisher, since there are certain ones I favor and others I tend to avoid.

I went through and added up all the ones I wanted, and it came to around $2100, so I either have to pare down or go for the big one.

nicky crane

The books I own were greyed out. I bought about 41 books at an average price of $10. These were all books I really wanted. I weeded out he commentaries, deciding I really have enough. Then was ambushed by NICOT/NT today, and decided to splurge. I shall probably opt out of the EEC now. I wasn't even able to check my bank balance, but I think I have enough. For the first time I've opted for a payment plan. I hope this commentary may answer the questions no other commentary has yet answered for me. Now waiting longingly for it to download, which it seems in no hurry to do!

Praiser

I've been cured! I am going to scour my life for the cash to buy the 2010 Master Collection...

I had spent days parsing the Master Collection list, trying to bring some order to that unwieldy list so I could make a decision about which individual 50% books to buy. In the process, I discovered all the interesting books tucked away in the biblical studies collections. My distress increased and my total spend increased. Then Matthew Jones pointed the way to recovery: the logic of one dollar. "Bob" showed up and we had the following conversation:

"Bob": Would you buy a collection of 2000 books at $1 a book if every single book was extremely valuable to you?
Me: Yes but... there is a lot in the Master Collection that I don't need and just don't want! I have Portfolio, plus some add-ons. About half are duplicates!
"Bob": Okay. Would you buy a collection of 1000 valuable books at $2 a book?
Me: I suppose so, but they would have to be really valuable! Maybe 70 percent of what remains is junk!
"Bob": (sotto voce: One person's junk is ...). Well yes, but suppose you were offered a collection of just 300 valuable books at $6.33 a book? Would you take that? Most of the books in Community Pricing go for more than that!

At that point, I got it: $1 trumps 50% off any day.

Rebecca

ps: I found partial to complete representation in the Master Collection from all of the following collections, and these were just the ones I was most interested in (sale price in parentheses is typically the usual price but is less than the individual book prices discounted 50%):

Second Temple Period Collection ($800)

Judaism & Christianity Collection ($400)

Studies of Jesus and the Gospels ($350)

Library of NT Studies: Jesus and the Gospels ($600)

Studies New Testament World (SNTW) ($135)

Origins of Ancient Israel Collection ($170)

Old Testament Studies Series Collection ($190)

Theology & Doctrine Collection ($210)

Yes, I came to the same conclusion and have posted more information at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/27683.aspx Big Smile

Hopefully it will help others sort things out.