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EAdams
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I have seen threads in the past where users have reported seeing special offers for FF that others cannot see. Now I have experienced that myself! On my regular desktop computer (Windows 8 with IE 11) I only see the Special offer on subscription and FF Prof costs $399. I see the same on my old IPAD 2 that I often use to access the FF website.
On a brand new IPAD 2 I saw an 80% discount ($79 for FF Prof) yesterday or the day before, and today I see a 75% discount ($99 for FF Prof). These discounts were (are) prominently highlighted on the home page.
I am wondering if the FF website somehow displays different offerings depending on whether the website is accessed by a computer containing cookies indicating that the user is completely new to the site.
In any case, the offers seen seem to be valid, because if I click the BUY button, Digital River displays an invoice containing the special price.
I've never experienced anything like this on any other website.
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| Posted: July 19, 2014 6:32 am |
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Ramlyn
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Hummm... You are right. I went to the site from a computer that I have never used to go to FF page and it reports 80% discount on the Professional Version. It says "Last day of offer". Instead, going to the site from my usual PC, no matter if I login or not my account, I can't see this offer.
Well... I bought the program before, so it doesn't make any change for me.
It is probably 1 day offer for who goes to the site the first time.
Someway it is not so fair, I know, but it may be a selling strategy. A person who see FF page the first time gets a choice : trying the program and losing the offer or buying immediately without knowing if he likes it or not.
Anyway, now that you know it, you also got the trick : anybody can firstly try the program, then, if he wants to buy it, he can buy it using a different computer, hoping to find the 1 day offer.
There is also a chance that it is some kind of mistake reporting an old offer not deleted. Maybe, you would not succeed to purchase it through the 80% discount.
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| Posted: July 19, 2014 8:27 am |
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Skybase
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FF's weird and fun discounts never seem to hit a bottom.
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| Posted: July 19, 2014 9:00 am |
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ddaydreams
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I've also never experienced anything like this on any other website. So if I recommend FF to someone I'll let them know to try different browsers,maybe clear cookies, try accessing with different devices and look for best deal.
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| Posted: July 19, 2014 10:14 am |
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Tepearley
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So I checked the home page from my computer running Firefox on Windows Vista and there was no deal. I just checked the site on an iPod Touch for the first time and there it was...80% discount. Could be a sales strategy as was mentioned.
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| Posted: July 28, 2014 6:41 pm |
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EAdams
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If the already observed behavior holds true, if you continue to access the site with the iPod over the next few days, you should first see the offer drop to 75% and then the normal page with no discount will finally appear.
If this is a sales strategy, I can't understand the logic behind it.
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| Posted: July 29, 2014 3:20 am |
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Tepearley
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I checked again from the iPod and it did go down to 75%. So as weird as it is, the pattern seems consistent. If it's a deal for new visitors, Why not say so on the site that it's a deal for new visitors? It might be better for sales if people knew it was a special offer.
Unless they're worried someone would use a different computer then the one they usually use to get the deal. It's all very mysterious whatever the reason for these discounts.
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| Posted: July 30, 2014 5:30 pm |
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Skybase
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News Flash: FIlterForge doing discount lottery.
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| Posted: July 30, 2014 7:32 pm |
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