https://www.logos.com/product/43630/classic-commentaries-and-studies-on-the-books-of-samuel-upgrade
This is very disappointing on so many levels.
There is no good reason this CP is closing at this outrageous price. This is nearly $5 per title when $2 or less is exceedingly common. There are no nice words for this travesty--it's just plain stupid. Why? Because throwing money away is the opposite of smart, and there is no sensible reason for bidding this CP over the top at this price. Just how stupid is it? Well, just think about it. There are hundreds of CPs being offered, and if each one closes at $10-20 (sometimes $30-40) above what it could easily and reasonably close at, that's not just potentially but actually hundreds and even thousands of dollars each year more than we would otherwise spend if these things would just close at levels that are entirely realistic and possible...IF people would think about their bids proactively rather than reactively. Just bidding the current peak even though it is absurdly over-priced out of fear that if you don't bid green you could lose out demonstrates an embarrassing lack of intellectual courage and backbone. Throwing money away unnecessarily out of a desire to "set it and forget it" is a shameful failure of financial stewardship.
As much as I would like to have these titles (at a reasonable cost), when I look at this trigger price, I can't help but notice that there are other much more valuable CPs that are lingering in virtual limbo because they aren't getting bids at this same price point or slightly higher. For example...
https://www.logos.com/product/26934/lexham-methods-series
This series is a mere handful of bids away from peaking at $50, only $2 above the trigger price of the Samuel collection, yet it is infinitely more valuable than the commentaries could ever hope to be. This series could and should easily close at $40 or lower, but it has been stalled in this position for nearly a year. Sad.
Why should you get this Methods series? Because approximately 50% of the resources Logos offers have one or more of these methods as the framework underlying the content being presented. Unless you are an expert in each of these methods of Biblical study (and I seriously doubt that even 1% of Logos users can meet that criterion), you ought to make purchasing this series a priority as a matter of intellectual integrity.
