Got my offer, 33% off on one, and 23% off of another, third strangely ignored. Guessing that it did not qualify.

Now to decide...

Rosie Perera said:

A hint: if you've already established a relationship with a sales rep and haven't sent your Black Friday email in yet, send it to your sales rep directly, not to sales@logos.com. He or she will get the commission that way, and you'll have the personalized service you've grown accustomed to. And who knows, you might even get your reply sooner.

I had wondered if we could direct our request to our own personal rep. Thanks for answering that question.

I'm still trying to whittle my list down to send to Dave Kaplan.

More info for people wondering when their replies might come in... I emailed Logos at 2:15 PM Eastern time Friday and got my reply at 7:15 PM Eastern time this evening (Sat).

I got 33% off one item, 40% off the second, and about 70% off the third - very excited about that. If anyone is working on their list of 3 items at this point, my approach was to pick one lower-priced item I'd definitely get for any kind of discount, a medium-priced item that I'd get for a good discount, and a high-priced item I'd get for an unexpectedly good discount. Unfortunately, the 70% discount was on the mid-priced item. But I'll still probably get all 3 items.

FYI...

Donnie

Jerry M said:

Several resources I am interested in are published by Baker.  Does anyone know if they are restrictive as say Zondervan or could I expect a reasonable discount?

Received a discount on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics. Baker Academic. [:)]

Did anyone go with the The New International Commentary on the Old Testament and The New International Commentary on the New Testament ?

Yes, and I just got my answer. It's a good discount! (the pre-pub price).

Sorry, Central Time Zone.

Ben said:

I went with the IVP collection, but it says it's a CD. Does this mean it's being mailed to me? The other thing I purchased has already downloaded and indexed, but there's no sign of the IVP files...

Hi Ben!  *smile*

Peace to you!       and Joy in the Lord!

Why not look at your completed order under your account?  If you click on the number there, I think you might find instructions as to the possibility of downloading it.

Would be great if you could.    That kind of situation does frustrate me sometimes, as I guess I still need to work on my "patience"!

Blair Laird said:

Matthew C Jones said:

Jerry M said:

Several resources I am interested in are published by Baker.  Does anyone know if they are restrictive as say Zondervan or could I expect a reasonable discount?

I'm interested in Baker & ICC. So I have been watching this thread hoping to learn something before I expend my three wishes on something I can't have.....

 

I went with ICC, they ended up taking about $500.00 off the price, really sweet deal...

 

Matthew, I did not bid on the ICC set but did bid on a couple of commentaries from that set. I've purchased individual commentaries from the ICC, but was told that I could not bid on individual commentaries here. Any way, I was given a very generous price for the set (the same as mentioned by Jerry), but can't really afford the entire set at this time.

I usually don't like to air my disappointments because I have so many things that I am thankful for. I'm very thankful that I have the study resources that I have. There are so many in this world that have far less resources yet never complain.

I sent my 3 selections in and got back the same price quote that I received from one of the sales reps last week. I was really hoping that the saving would be better since this was a Black Friday/ Cyber Monday sale.

(Aside. I didn't think this promotion was the best idea because it strains the office support unnecessarily, and it leaves the customer base wondering why things had to be kept behind closed doors. It reminds me of a car salesman going to the sales manager's office asking for a discount that's not going to go below commission plus cost. I understand that a company has to make money to stay in business, and a company has to keep its customer base happy. It would have made more sense to offer a scaled discount savings. First, mark all items that have coupons down to that lowest price. Second, the more money you spend the more you save: $50 - $100 dollar = 20% discount. $100 - $200 dollars = 30%. I think a maximum of 60% savings would have been reasonable.)

Maybe I should have spent my time working in the field of harvest Friday morning instead of worrying about getting a discount on a new book for my library. Will we ever learn?

Thanks Logos.

Chuck Alford said:

Maybe I should have spent my time working in the field of harvest Friday morning instead of worrying about getting a discount on a new book for my library. Will we ever learn?

Good point Chuck. I must have checked my email several times an hour today--not the best use of my time.

Chuck Alford said:

Aside. I didn't think this promotion was the best idea because it strains the office support unnecessarily, and it leaves the customer base wondering why things had to be kept behind closed doors. It reminds me of a car salesman going to the sales manager's office asking for a discount that's not going to go below commission plus cost. I understand that a company has to make money to stay in business, and a company has to keep its customer base happy. It would have made more sense to offer a scaled discount savings

I have a friend who does traveling sales, every couple of years his region has what they call a "Garage Sale". They rent out a hall somewhere, and fill it with overstock items, close-outs, discontinued products, and everything else that has been sitting on a shelf for some time. Then he sends out personal invitations to his customers, who come in droves to buy at the event.

When I found out that the prices at the "sale" really weren't much better than he could offer them everyday, I asked him why they even bother having the event. He then showed me a two inch stack of receipts, and said "This pile here is just the people who never buy anything from me normally..."

Paul Golder said:

 

I have a friend who does traveling sales, every couple of years his region has what they call a "Garage Sale". They rent out a hall somewhere, and fill it with overstock items, close-outs, discontinued products, and everything else that has been sitting on a shelf for some time. Then he sends out personal invitations to his customers, who come in droves to buy at the event.

When I found out that the prices at the "sale" really weren't much better than he could offer them everyday, I asked him why they even bother having the event. He then showed me a two inch stack of receipts, and said "This pile here is just the people who never buy anything from me normally..."

Thanks Paul for sharing that it put a smile on my face.

I got fantastic deals with the Black Friday sale.

I got a Collection I've been eyeballing (~ $700 regular price) as well as a Commentary set I wanted (~ $400 regular price). I added the Demons and Deities Dictionary to round out the package.

My final price for over $1200 worth of resources just barely broke $500... ELATED!! Bought all three and am now merging the indexes [:)]

Thanks Logos!!

I got 56%, 42% and about 14% off. I bought the first two, which happened to be public domain titles. The latter one was not. I figured I got the higher discount for the public domain works because from Logos' perspective there are no royalties and the labor that they put into producing the titles is sunk.

Questions!  Questions!  and in the middle of a weekend night, too...

Can someone tell me whether the Judaism & Christianity Collection is useful or interesting?

How about the Sheffield Reader Collection?  Is there some other JSOT/JSNT collection of intermediate price (not in Portfolio) that would be better?

What do you recommend:  SESB 3.0 regular? or SESB 3.0 for Logos?

Thanks for the help.  This thread has already helped me a lot!  

Rebecca

For me the choice of three was easy ... I have had my eye on these for a long time ... but can barely keep up with my growing pre-pub dependency to ever think of buying other resources as well. [:$]

As it happens, one was Lexham (Logos in-house) and one was part of the Platinum package (discountable, at least within that package, but therefore an amenable publisher).

I was offered between 33% (Lexham) to 20% discount, better than nothing but not stunning.

A tricky decision ... I still do not like the 'private deal, car salesman' approach of having your own personal dealer, it still seems 'dishonest'. Let me make it clear that I do not believe it to be, but here in the UK, prices are prices, public, open and fair. The only places were bartering is general practice are used car sales, house sales, double glazing and builders. All of whom have a poor reputation.

I also find it curious that, on this thread, nobody, including myself, has actually put much up by way of concrete $ prices for specific resources. I am not aware of any prohibition but I am following the convention that has appeared within this thread. This is by way of an observation more than anything.

Will I take up any of the offers? Mrs. F says yes, I am not so sure.

I decided to shoot for the moon--The Portfolio Package. The Grand Savings--drumroll please.....................................$14.50.

Brad Fry said:

I decided to shoot for the moon--The Portfolio Package. The Grand Savings--drumroll please.....................................$14.50.

Ouch.  I shot high myself and went for Platinum.  If the results are the same here, now I wish I had not gone for a base package upgrade...

Martin Folley said:

A tricky decision ... I still do not like the 'private deal, car salesman' approach of having your own personal dealer, it still seems 'dishonest'. Let me make it clear that I do not believe it to be, but here in the UK, prices are prices, public, open and fair. The only places were bartering is general practice are used car sales, house sales, double glazing and builders. All of whom have a poor reputation.

I'm from the UK too, and agree absolutely. I find it very strange that I can telephone a particular sales rep and get a better deal than I can online. I'm slowly getting used to it, but it still doesn't feel right. I guess it's a cultural thing.

Sent Friday, November 26, 2010 2:26 PM (EST)

Received reply Sat, Nov 27, 2010 11:55 pm (unknown time zone)

Bought all three (discounts of 38%, 18% and 30%) (Sun Nov 28 about 9 AM EST)

(And I did ask if they were getting the proper amount of sleep)

[With my current collection of resources my estimated time to do a complete study on any given verse is about 45 days (define complete study as read every resource that touches the subject) (that estimate includes the time to do the 17 other studies I will have to do because of things I find interesting in the original study)]

Floyd Johnson said:

Unless something has changed, there is no other way to get a serial number.

If you have a nice sales rep it might be possible to have the CD delivered directly to him. He then enters the serial number and throws away the disc, after which you can download as normal. Don't know if they can do it with all publishers, though.

If I get a good price on the only CD-product I had on my list, I'm certainly hoping to do it that way. Though considering his work load right now, I fully intend to tell him he can deal with it a bit later, when things have calmed down a little... [:)]

I decided to dream big.

16 hours later:

18% off a major set from Eerdmans

8% off a small set from Eerdmans

No discount available on the single title from Baker

I struck out.

We'll see what's in the 12 Days of Logos sale.

UPDATE:  I got an update from my rep. The major set is 26% off. That's better. I was hoping for more.

My rep said that he had over 600 emails waiting.

It was mentioned that we could use the payment plan to pay for black friday specials.  Do you have to call to do that or can you set up a payment plan on the web site?