A few months back I asked for opinions on renewing my Pluralsight subscription on here. In the end I decided to cancel the account and take a break because I could always get a new account for less than the renewal cost - something that annoyed me a lot: they did not reward loyalty at all.
Today I get a flyer from them tell me about the great price for a new account - $199, which is what I was expecting to pay in any case!!! I went along to the site and sure enough the price for a new account is now $299 and the Black Friday price is $199, the same as the discounted price two months ago…
I’m going to be very interested to see what they will be charging for a new account in two months time, $299 discounted to $199 I’m betting…
They cycle through a few different types of offers throughout the year, I’m always getting emails from them.
But $199 for a year was always the best offer available I thought?
I believe so. There certainly is nothing special about it. And in the many years I have been a customer I have never every got any kind of discount offer on renewals.
I have no complaints what so ever about the content etc always very professional and what I needed to do the job. But I’m just a little bit miffed that they don’t show some recognition to loyal customers and selling their usual offer as a Black Friday offer… well ya…
In my digging this morning, Black Friday is more like Blah Friday. I checked the normal prices for a number of items that we were looking into for the house 2 weeks ago. In the Blah Friday ads and online, I’m finding the same thing - the MSRP price is now the “Regular” price and the Blah Friday price is the normally discounted price from 2 weeks ago.