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Turns out, I was wrong.. It wasn't just the email they lied in....
They also pushed the same thing to my AdminCP!
As a preferred customer with an active license, we are excited to offer the vBulletin Publishing Suite at a pre-sale discount price of only $130 (over 50% off regular price). This is a truly limited one-time special offer giving you $120 off the upgrade price but will expire on Friday October 30, 2009.
If THAT's not clear enough that I should have gotten the lower price, I don't know what is! It's in my control panel. They know my license number. They know when my support expired. But, my **LICENSE** is active as I bought a lifetime OWNED license.
When I go to upgrade, I'm told it's $250 ($15 MORE than a **NEW** customer!) even though they have told me in TWO separate places that I'm a "preferred" customer and that I should be paying $130 for the suite.
How many places do they have to LIE about the price before people get REALLY upset?
They just posted the "new prices".. Still not good enough.. Should be $130 for everyone. Expired or not. It's a separate product, right?
For licenses that expired in the last 12 months, we are offering an extra $45 discount for advance ordering, in addition to the publicly available pre-sale savings of $50. This means the all new vB 4.0 Publishing Suite will cost you only $190, a total savings of $95.
For licenses that expired more than 12 month ago, we are offering an extra $25 discount for advance ordering, in addition to the publicly available pre-sale savings of $50. This means the all new vB 4.0 Publishing Suite will cost you only $210, a total savings of $75.
nothing new. They charging more from loyal customer. They sent out email to everyone (whether active or inactive) and told us that they are getting discounts. But in actual they are charging more from you then any one newbie. It would be better for you to take one more license then upgrading it.
nothing new. They charging more from loyal customer. They sent out email to everyone (whether active or inactive) and told us that they are getting discounts. But in actual they are charging more from you then any one newbie. It would be better for you to take one more license then upgrading it.
Your statement is now in fact, false. Read the latest news. (Well, if you are further than 24 months out... you're screwed. But even then, I wouldn't call you a customer with that amount of time lapsed between a purchase.)
If THAT's not clear enough that I should have gotten the lower price, I don't know what is! It's in my control panel. They know my license number. They know when my support expired. But, my **LICENSE** is active as I bought a lifetime OWNED license.
When I go to upgrade, I'm told it's $250 ($15 MORE than a **NEW** customer!) even though they have told me in TWO separate places that I'm a "preferred" customer and that I should be paying $130 for the suite.
How many places do they have to LIE about the price before people get REALLY upset?
Yes, this whole operation (it's more like a circus now) has been executed so very poorly and unprofessional, that I lost my trust in this company. I am now in conversation with (a very big) potential client who is seriously re-thinking their interest in vBulletin as their future platform. Thank you very much, IB.
Sorry if I still sound very upset in a non-rational way to some people, but I can't hide how I as a customer since 2001 feel about all this. I always had the very best of interest in this product, in the company (the developers) behind it and us as customers. So sad to see soooo many customers angry on a scale of these proportions.
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