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    Useful Price Comparison Tool: PluginDeals Reseller Price Check Search Engine

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    16 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

    I also appreciate your candor and how informative you are. I think you do an excellent job with running the Facebook group, keeping it focused and civil, and I really like the price check tool site -- which admittedly, I haven't spent much time with --but it seems very promising! Keep up the good work. 

    Thanks! It's aways my intention to be open and transparent with all the stuff I do. I'm just working on the next stage of updates to the Price Check thing... mostly technical issues I need to overcome to keep it running and speed it all up a bit. After that there may be some new features and a bit more cross-communication with the regular deals database that feeds the ULTIMATE Deals List (which is not just scraping resellers and requires a lot more manual work to maintain).

    Watch this space! 😁

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    Useful Price Comparison Tool: PluginDeals Reseller Price Check Search Engine

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    Just spotted this! Thanks for sharing! 🥰

    For the record, we're not affiliated with all the resellers on our Reseller Price Check tool, though we are with a few, of course. But we do show prices from resellers we get nothing from, such as JRR and Audio Deluxe. Similarly, we're one of the only services to share deals from all corners of the world on our Facebook group, SubReddit, Twitter account and other channels, without purely focussing on those we get commission from. So those are some of the best places to find offers from indie devs and the like. 

    One thing to bear in mind is that most resellers (and there are many) get their products and pricing from the same central distributor (usually xchangemarket or plugivery) so, unless they're doing some shifty shenanigans, the majority of them will carry the exact same prices for most products. So we tried to include the top, most trusted, resellers who also sometimes have exclusive discounts. You could still technically use the plugin price drop alerts just to know when a sale is on and then get the prodct from a reseller of your choice.  We're also limited in space on the page and the size of database available at the moment so we settled on these 7-8 top resellers. 

    This particular service has cost me a lot more in time and money to build and maintain that it has earned back so far! As with all the APG and PD stuff, the service to the community comes before profits. Luckily, I also have a day job! 😅

     

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    🔥 The Ultimate Black Friday Deals List is back on Audio Plugin Guy

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    For the sixth year running, we are tracking ALL the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and adding them to a single list on the Audio Plugin Guy website.

    👉 https://www.audiopluginguy.com/all-the-black-friday-plugin-deals/

    The list is updated regularly and includes tags and highlights for easy searching.

    IN ADDITION TO THIS you can now also check the sale prices across a number of major resellers using our Plugin Reseller Price Check tool.

    👉 https://plugindeals.net/plugin-reseller-price-check/

    AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH you can even set up email alerts for price drops on specific plugins at the resellers we are tracking... we have seriously got you covered this year!

    👉 https://plugindeals.net/plugin-reseller-price-check/

    AND TO HELP YOU OUT EVEN MORE this year we have updated the Plugin Deals Guide to Surviving Black Friday with some handy tips for making sure you get out with your sanity and wallet intact.

    👉 https://plugindeals.net/black-friday/the-plugin-deals-guide-to-surviving-black-friday/

    Look out for more nifty new articles and features as we add them.

    Happy shopping from the Audio Plugin Guy and Plugin Deals team!

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    Get 88% off the Black Rooster ALL Bundle of 20 mixing plugins from plugindeals.net, saving over $1600!

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    Bit more detail...

    This collection of studio-quality plugins covers all your key mixing needs with plenty of flavour, including EQ, compression, reverb, tape, and saturation. 

    • VLA-2A MARK II - Opto Compressor
    • VLA-3A - Hybrid Opto Compressor
    • THE CANARY - Drum Enhancer
    • CYPRESS TT-15 - Guitar Amp
    • VHL-3C - Analog-Style EQ
    • VEQ-5 - Mid-Range Focused EQ
    • BLUEASH SC-5 - VCA Compressor
    • BLACKASH SC-5 - VCA Compressor
    • MAGNETITE - Tape Emulation
    • VPRE-73 - Preamp
    • VEQ-1P - Passive EQ
    • EDELWEISS`72 - Channel Strip
    • VLA-FET - Leveling Amplifier
    • KH-COMP1 - Bespoke Compressor
    • RO-140 - Vintage Plate Reverb
    • KH-EQ1 - Boutique EQ
    • RO-SPR - Vintage Spring Reverb
    • OMNITEC-67A - Preamp
    • VLA-2A - Opto Compressor
    • RO-GOLD - Plate Reverb

    Total price of individual plugins: $1846
    Exclusive Plugin Deals price: $220 (just $11 per plugin)

    Total saving with this offer: $1626

    NEW! Plugin Reseller Price Check by plugindeals.net and Audio Plugin Guy. 🥳

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    @PavlovsCat I appreciate your kind words and I'm glad you like the way we run things in our communities... it's definitely had to evolve and adapt over the years as we've grown and I still feel we could do better to make valuable, friendly places to hang out.

    I've had run-ins with a few other affiliate guys, not including the chap from the other thread, and there are definitely a few who go about things in ways I do not agree with at all. I did actually touch on it in a blog post I wrote a while back where I came close to giving it all up but instead decided to just focus more on the things that mattered and delegate a bit more so I didn't burn myself out!

    On which note... I'm off for a little vacation. (Though I'll still be around, as always!) ❤️

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    NEW! Plugin Reseller Price Check by plugindeals.net and Audio Plugin Guy. 🥳

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    @PavlovsCat made some great points about the nature of these services and how the whole affiliate thing influences their approach. I agree and actually have a bit of a love/hate relationship with affiliate marketing. From one side, it's a great way for creators to earn a few pennies from their work, which is how I came to it after starting the home studio blog that preceded Audio Plugin Guy. From the other side, there are many out there who are only in it for the money and set up services that claim to help you find deals but almost exclusively spam you with affiliate links. Or put out glowing reviews for substandard products just to get their cut *ahem MIDI chord pack reviewers ahem*. Those guys bug me!

    The approach I take with Audio Plugin Guy and plugindeals.net is to put the service to our community first. So, whilst you will find affiliate links for Plugin Boutique and others amongst our deals lists, we aim to share all the deals we come across, which includes offers direct from devs and exclusives at non-affiliated resellers. The APG reviews are for products that excite myself and our writers, and therefore hopefully our readers. I also like to help highlight new indie devs. Affiliate stuff doesn't come into those decisions at all.

    So hopefully I come down on the right side of the line with all that. 🙂

    For the record, affiliate commission is "ok" across all the stuff we've got going on but most goes to covering hosting, paying for the database and automation services that keep everything running, and paying writers and coders. I certainly couldn't make a living from it (not with a house and two kids, anyway!) and rely on my "real" job for that. ❤️

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    NEW! Plugin Reseller Price Check by plugindeals.net and Audio Plugin Guy. 🥳

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    This was mentioned in another thread which went a bit wayward (for unrelated reasons) and was closed down so I figured I'd start a new one so I can respond to feedback and maybe get some more. So here's the news...

    We have just gone public with a beta of our new Plugin Reseller Price Check service on plugindeals.net. 

    Whilst this is pretty complicated under the hood with automated daily site scraping connected to a huge database which is then sorted and updated on the site twice a day, the front end is pretty simple to use. It's basically a list of thousands of products along with their current prices at a number of top resellers. The list can be very quickly filtered by category, developer, or product name. 

    It's still in beta as there is still some manual work to do connecting the reseller data up to the main product list and removing duplicates, among other things. But it is mostly in a good place. There are caveats, as with all any service like this, such as the fact that prices are in USD and may change when converted to your local currency. There are also differences in taxes depending on where you are. The data also takes at up to 24 hours to get up-to-date so new price changes may not appear immediately. 

    The list is not intended to be used in isolation and works best alongside the ULTIMATE Plugin Deals List and more community based deal-finding options like our Deals and Freebies Facebook group and our newplugindeals subreddit. 

    Myself and my little team of developers are working on ironing out the kinks and there are also some cool new features we plan to add that this system opens up to us. So keep an eye out for those. 🙂

    Please check out our our Plugin Reseller Price Check service and let me know what you think!

    I'll respond to some of the feedback from the other thread below shortly. Thanks! ❤️

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    ccLarry's Secret Deal Resource

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    Thanks for sharing our groups and lists. I hope Larry is ok. ❤️

    The Plugin Reseller Price Check only went live yesterday so that got out quickly! It is intended as a complement to the ULTIMATE Plugin Deals List, which has all the deals direct from devs and some resellers from a different database.

    The price check is still in beta and there are some duplicate entries to clean up and one whole reseller left to connect up but all the code behind it seems solid... only took three months working with two very skilled coders to get here.

    Now the backbone is there we will start looking at adding more useful features to this tool.  I'll do an official post when I feel we can stop calling it "beta". 🙂

    PS. We also have a fairly new Plugin Deals Subreddit as a mirror of the FB group for people who don't like FB. It's pretty comprehensive. 😁

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    Here are the APG Plugin Deals of the Week! 🔥

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    As voted for by our discerning Plugin Deals Facebook Group members...

    https://www.audiopluginguy.com/apg-weekly-2022-week-19/

    Results:

    1. PSP Twin-L limiter for $9.99

    2. Get 50% off in the Newfangled Audio Sale

    3. IK Multimedia Syntronik 2 Group Buy

    4. 95% off the Sonuscore Spring Donation Bundle

    5. Native Instruments Deals

    Some of the above are affiliate links. Last one is pretty vague... I guess democracy isn't always perfect! 

    Our Eventide Giveaway has been closed and winners contacted. Four out of five already have their prizes... look out for the next one! ❤️

     

    Back once again with the renegade... APG Deals of the Week! 🔥

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    It's Plugin Deals and Freebies of the Week Time! 🥳

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    APG Deals of the Week + a very nice new GIVEAWAY! 🔥

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    Here are the latest Deals of the Week PLUS info on the new APG Giveaway!

    https://www.audiopluginguy.com/apg-weekly-2022-week-16/

    Short version:

    #1. Get 89% off in the Solid State Logic Native Essentials Bundle Sale*

    #2. Get Tokyo Dawn Labs TDR Limiter 6 GE for

    #3. Get 90% off Softube Transient Shaper*

    #4. IK Multimedia Syntronik 2 Group Buy*

    #5. Foundations Staccato Strings by Heavyocity for free

    *Some of these are affiliate links!

    Enter our Eventide H9 Effects Bundle Giveaway... HERE

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    🔥 APG Deals of the Week - 2022 - Week 14 🔥

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    Fixed title... 😅

    Long version: https://www.audiopluginguy.com/apg-weekly-2022-week-14/

    Short version:

    1. Get 42% off Tokyo Dawn Labs Limiter 6 GE
    2. Arturia V products 50% at Native Instruments
    3. Get 60% off Graillon 2 by Auburn Sounds
    4. 60% off Cherry Audio Eight Voice polyphonic synthesizer
    5. Get up to 40% off AIR Music Technology New Releases

    And a slightly different little vid from me this week... 

     

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