What no Black Friday Sale???

Frank Sauer said:

I just figured I'd have some fun and hopefully bring a few smiles to Team Logos since they have been working so hard...

I was going to post at 5am or so asking where the doorbuster sales are, just didn't feel like getting up that early...

What?    Frank, didn't you get your speciall e-mail on today's deals?  [:^)]

Let me put on my Logos blue colored glasses for this one:

"We believe that making available all the great resources at far less than you would pay for them in book format and in much more useful and easier to get at format is enough of a discount that is available whether it is Christmas or New Years or Easter is enough."

Wouldn't mind seeing a little sale anyway as I am planning to pick up a new commentary set.

Kevin A. Purcell said:

"We believe that making available all the great resources at far less than you would pay for them in book format and in much more useful and easier to get at format is enough of a discount that is available whether it is Christmas or New Years or Easter is enough."

Kevin, this is a serendipitous post indeed.  I was going to post a question about this very thing.  I am in no way quibbling with you here, and in large part, what you stated is absolutely true!  However...

Today, I was doing my never-ending study in Romans, and I hovered over a hyperlink that did not 'pop up' any text.  I tried a few times to no avail, so I clicked on it.  A pane opened up informing me that I did not have the resource, and within that pane was another hyperlink which opened up my browser to this page.  The first thing I did was navigate to Amazon to see what the print edition would be, which can be seen here.  As you can quickly see, there's quite a difference in the price!  To get both volumes from Amazon in print form would be ~$80.  From Logos, it would be a whopping $175.  I've seen this phenomenon in a few resources, and it's unfortunate, because if I could get those references at a reasonable price from Logos, I would.

Matt

Matt said:

As you can quickly see, there's quite a difference in the price!

I emailed Logos about this once, asking why there is such a huge difference for some of the books. Like you, I was looking at some books that cost 2x more for Logos than in print. Alas, no explanation was available. I trust Logos enough to believe this is being boosted more from the publisher's end than from Logos end... or perhaps Logos needs to revisit some of its book prices because market values have dropped?

It's like asking how much tennis shoes are a year after their hayday.  I would imagine quite a difference.  But then they could be seen in a new hit movie and back up they go.  To put it simply, reference materials are not cheap, but the educated opinions we get last forever!!

MarkStevens said:

What is a black friday sale?

The day after Thanksgiving, stores have special sales for Christmas shoppers. 

I've noticed this price difference especially with the commentaries.  It appears that
Logos prefers people to buy commentaries/collections in bulk rather
than building up their library slowly.  However, most people buy
commentaries one or two books at a time. 

It would be great if Logos offered an exchange for commentaries
similar to what they did for upgrading packages.  If you own 5 books in
a series, you should get some discount on the entire collection.  But I
agree that they should also lower the price for individual books.  A
digital resource going for 2x the printed book is quite high.

Thanks Pam.

Richard DeRuiter said:

it's greed day for both consumers and retailers

Here in Australia we have these kind of sales on 'Boxing Day' which is the day after Christmas. 

Richard DeRuiter said:

The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. is Friday. Officially it's called "black" Friday, ......

Thanks for the clarification. In Australia Black Friday is associated with the bushfires (wildfires) of 1939, one of the worse in our history (Black Saturday 2009 is now our worse). I associated the US day in a similar vein and thought it strange that sales would be held for such.

Dear Steve,

Here in the States "Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving of which Americans "think" they are getting a good buy.

But in Canada "Boxing Day" is the day after Christmas and that is were the real sales are. I have seen some store sales up to 75%-80% off of most items in the store not a few select items like Wal-Mart.

Want to talk about lines, the buyers start about 5:00PM the previous day (Christmas Day) to wait for these sales and the store clerks let people in the store in an orderly fashion.

I really try to avoid "Boxing Day" Sales.

Kirk