Black Friday Bargins (kinda)

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I love a good bargain. Paying full retail was beaten out of my brain in the flea markets of NYC and NJ long ago. I love getting those “Black Friday Sales” emails from places I actually spend money at regularly. I couldn’t believe it when I read the email from Autodesk about their “Cyber Week Sale”. Let’s just see, what kind of deals they have. Never have I come across a sale that includes my favorite software. Lo and behold, It looked like I could get 0% financing on a 3 yr subscription. That’s a good deal so further down the rabbit hole I went. Reached out to Autodesk, per the sites standardized form. I received a quick reply, awesome…… since I was already on subscription through the website and since I’m a freelancer operating as a sole-proprietor, not an LLC things got kicked up the sales ladder.
No problem, at least they haven’t said no yet. ( Is that. little too much foreshadowing) Besides my credit is stellar and if they wanted to they could shutdown the license at any moment right? 0% on a 12K+ expense would leave me additional capital for continued use as an independent contractor etc…
Next day I get a quote from the sales team for a 3 year subscription. When I open it, I’m thinking, this can’t be right…. It’s actually $625 more then just doing the 3 year myself online. Maybe I missed something, but shouldn’t that, at a minimum be the same?

So, I ask Autodesk to help me understand.

Long story short, the “Cyber Week Sale” subscription deal can’t be applied to subscriptions purchased through the e-store. So I would need to open a new contract, which is more expensive then what I’m already paying.

This is where I end my quest for the elusive Autodesk “Sale”.

I did find that BorixFX’s 25% off everything means everything, no asterisk, no see details, everything.

Now on to OWC and see what to gets the kid for the holidays.

Happy Hunting

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Yup Photo AI is very good, that replaces Giga and Sharpen.

Topaz Video AI now reads and exports EXR files, really useful. I use Video AI all the time, it’s brilliant.

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Just saw that in one our other forums and confirmed that it works.

If you do have an Adobe subscription, you can go to ‘manage my plan’ and get 25% of your current subscription for the next 12 months.

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Not entirely sure what Adobe’s thinking here is. I did read the fine print and didn’t see any catch. I think they’re trying to get long-term subscribers on the same plan to clear our some legalese cobwebs. Functionally it seems to be the same plan.

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Only on new subscriptions. I tried to change my renewal date but was told I have to buy a new sub to take advantage of the bfs

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Hi

Yeah I haven’t really found anything I could do previously, in the older apps, that I can’t do in Photo AI. I’m pretty sure that they will drop the others soon, and just have Video AI and Photo AI. I would think def worth getting the main Photo AI app. You can switch autopilot off and adjust all settings individually. Although Autopilot usually just nails it.

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