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Macheist bundle 2008

devilot said:
Hm, now it's on to Snapz Pro. The next "goal" is to hit $100K for charity, at 25% of $49, that's approx. $12.25 per bundle. So they're looking for another 3,616 bundles purchased.

If I did my math correctly. :eek: Which is doubtful as I suck at math.
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Your math is correct, but it seems like MacHeist's is a bit fuzzy:

8363 Bundles sold: $91116 for Charity
8364 Bundles sold: $91128 for Charity, 1 added $12 ($12/bundle)
8374 Bundles sold: $91240 for Charity, 10 added $112 ($11.20/bundle)
8415 Bundles sold: $91716 for Charity, 41 added $476 ($11.61/Bundle)
8465 Bundles sold: $92280 for Charity, 50 added $564 ($11.28/Bundle)
8481 Bundles sold: $92464 for Charity, 16 added $564 ($11.28/Bundle)
8482 Bundles sold: $92464 for Charity, 1 added $0
8483 Bundles sold: $92475 for Charity, 1 added $11
8484 Bundles sold: $92485 for Charity, 1 added $10
8485 Bundles sold: $92497 for Charity, 1 added $12

Overall 122 bundles were sold while I was watching with the total to charity rising just $1381, an average of $11.32/bundle.

Looking at the final numbers, on average: $10.90/bundle goes to charity, so someone's math is off for sure since that's only 22%, and you can bet that missing 3% isn't going to the developers.

Do the math.
 
pacohaas said:
Your math is correct, but it seems like MacHeist's is a bit fuzzy:
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Do the math.
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To be fair, we have to also take into account the permutations because if 2 bundles are purchased together, that's $78 so the 25% to charity is $19.50, and 3 bundles together is $98 with 25% or $24.50 going to charity (making it approx. $8.17 per bundle).

:eek:
 
pacohaas said:
Your math is correct, but it seems like MacHeist's is a bit fuzzy:

[snip]

Overall 122 bundles were sold while I was watching with the total to charity rising just $1381, an average of $11.32/bundle.

Looking at the final numbers, on average: $10.90/bundle goes to charity, so someone's math is off for sure since that's only 22%, and you can bet that missing 3% isn't going to the developers.

Do the math.
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Don't forget that people who participated in the "heists" earned up to $10 off the price of the bundle (I saved $8, myself). Also, multiple bundles are sold at a discount.
 
Also, so this post has _some_ value; If you're unsure about buying the bundle, try downloading some of the apps. I wasn't really interested in the bundle until I tried Awaken and Speed Downloader Plus - those two apps (which I hadn't even looked at before) were the deciding factors for me
 
Flowbee said:
Don't forget that people who participated in the "heists" earned up to $10 off the price of the bundle (I saved $8, myself). Also, multiple bundles are sold at a discount.
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Yeah, it makes a lot more sense now, I didn't now about the discounts. I could probably chock the rest up to the website programming that doesn't update the counters immediately when bundles are sold. That's why you can see a single bundle presumably being sold with only $10 or $11 or $0 going to charity.
 
devilot said:
To be fair, we have to also take into account the permutations because if 2 bundles are purchased together, that's $78 so the 25% to charity is $19.50, and 3 bundles together is $98 with 25% or $24.50 going to charity (making it approx. $8.17 per bundle).

:eek:
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exactly. i save $10 off the bundle which only cost me $39. 25% of that, $9.75, went to charity.

people are looking way to much into this. it's a good deal if you want/need multiple apps in the bundle, if not then it's not a good deal to you. i personally was planning on getting cssedit and wanted snapz pro, that's $100 worth of apps for only $39 so to me it was a great deal.
 
So how does this work? I see that the download button on the site works. When you buy the bundle, do they email you the serial #s or does the developers send the the #s?
 
techmonkey said:
So how does this work? I see that the download button on the site works. When you buy the bundle, do they email you the serial #s or does the developers send the the #s?
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You get one email from Macheist with all the serial numbers. There's also a link in the email that you use as apps become unlocked, to get those serial numbers.
 
I bought my copy 2 days ago (before even CSSEdit was unlocked) - the main software I'm looking at here is Snapz Pro X (which unlocked yesterday), and everything else is a nice bonus... 1Password, Appzapper and Cha-Ching look great. Pixelmator looks good too, but I already use Photoshop CS3 :rolleyes:

Anyway, as long as you find value in the deal, then it's worth the cash, and helping charity is never a bad thing :)

-Bryan
 
I just caved and got the bundle.

Had $4 discount so for $45 it was just too good an opportunity to miss... and I had a little "silly money" on PayPal (thanks ;)) and this seemed silly enough. :)
 
Flowbee said:
Hmm... I hadn't thought of that. Must remember to register my apps soon.
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Yep. When I bought the first MacHeist bundle my machine was still only running Panther, and I discovered (to my dismay) that many of the apps I'd just purchased would require Tiger. A few months ago I finally bought a new machine with Tiger, so I went back to those old emails in hopes of downloading and registering the apps I'd bought. Only to discover that some of the serials no longer worked, which led to me contacting the developers for help. They were happy to give me the code once I confirmed that I did purchase the heist bundle, but did tell me that there had been lots of fraudulent requests.

I was also disappointed to see that in the time that passed many of the programs I'd bought had been updated (say, from a 1.8 version to 2.1) and I was either not eligible for free updates, or had passed the "limited time only, upgrade for free!" window.

Moral of the story: don't sit on your Heist codes! :(
 
Awaken

Hey guys - just wanted to let you know that I was around if you have any Awaken questions. I'd be glad to answer any that you may have. If you have any problems you can also email our support line: support@embraceware.com.

Regarding MacHeist and developers - I can say that working with MacHeist has been great. All of the other developers I know on the heist this year would say the same. Thanks for your support!
 
I forgot to mention that the charity thing is quite misleading. The site states:

"25% of your purchase will be donated to the charity of your choice"

If you use the discount tokens from other heists then the amount of your donation to charity reduces because the overall amount of your payment is less. I think MacHeist should donate the same amount of money for each bundle - 25% of $49, which is $12.25.

Currently, the average amount donated per bundle is $10.91 and if the charitable donations were actually fair and not just a stupid incentive to get people to part with their money then instead of a current total of $94,975 the site would be sitting at $106,587.25 for charity.

It's little things like this that really sour the milk in terms of this being good value.
 
I just want to throw in my 2 cents.

As soon as pixelmator becomes unlocked, I will purchase this bundle. The Cost of Pixelmator alone is worth it.
 
I just bought it so I can get Pixelmator. I download Pixelmator a couple of weeks ago to try out and really like it, but never got around to purchasing the program. Getting it through MacHeist is a litle more cost effective for me ;)

I already purchased CoverSutra about a month ago, but the version on MacHeist seems to be a new version. I might give the 1password program a shot but the others don't seem to have an interest for me.
 
Flowbee said:
When you buy a shirt at a store, do you know how much the store marked up the wholesale price? Do you know how much the wholesaler marked up the price from the manufacturer? Do you know how much the factory employee was paid to make the shirt?
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Right, fair enough. In this case I'd just like to know if it's a repeat of the same deal as last time or whether the developers have been able to negotiate better terms, knowing what they know. We can probably assume they have. But again, in light of the bad press last time around, it seems like a fair question.

It is reassuring to hear from developers that they're happy with the terms, and I guess they know what they're getting into this time around, so there you go...

(Although in general I do think it's good for consumers to know something about where their money goes, and what it supports. I'd rather buy local when I can. I'd rather support shareware and open-source developers than say, microsoft. I'd rather buy from environmentally and otherwise responsible companies, etc...)
 
is snapz pro x really unlocked????
the icon no longer has the locked indicator on it but if you click on the icon to get a description of the app it says it is locked till they raise 100,000 for charity and as of right now they have raised just over 98,000...

the macHeist website is very misleading... :confused:
 
Lame

donga said:
so.... if i buy the bundle, can i wait like a month to use the number? and are there any other reports of issues with the serial numbers?
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Moreover, why did my post get deleted? Because I am showing displeasure with MacHeist... one of the sponsors?

NOT cool mods.

I posted because I had problems with one of the products they sent me. I contacted both SRS and MacHeist (several ways) and got NO RESPONSE from either company.

At least they should have the common courtesy to respond to my e-mail saying, "Sorry, there is nothing we can do for you. Here, have $10 off the next MacHeist bundle because we can't fix your issue."

MacHeist people: I'm STILL waiting for my e-mail. If you have an SRS iWow 1.x serial number for me that WORKS then I will be grateful.

-Aaron-
 
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