Quoted from Schiit. PLEASE stop adding Schiit products, it only brings noise into the voting and stops other drops from happening.
ON "DEALS"
We get asked all the time about deals, sales and other incentives, such as Black Friday specials, EZ credit, trade-ins, monthly payments, purchasing with 2 cards, and a whole raft of other “can I get a better price” questions.
So, here’s our position on sales, specials, financing, discounts, loyalty programs, EZ credit, buy-1-get-1-free, etc:
We don’t do them.
Why? Because when you run sales, specials, financing, or other deals, it has exactly three results:
1. It makes everyone wait for the sales, so suddenly your company is addicted to them.
2. It makes everyone who bought before the sales wonder if they got screwed.
3. It makes everything cost more.
Read #3 again. The simplest sales model is one where everything is a fixed cost, no sales, no promos, no special package deals, no loyalty programs, no EZ financing. And simple is inexpensive. Simple means we don’t have to pass the cost along to you. Anytime we do a sale, start a promo, offer a package deal, or start a loyalty program, we’re adding cost to our products.
That’s why we have one price list, no discounts, no sales, no promos–because it passes the savings along to everyone.
Schiit doesn't give a crap that people want to buy in bulk. Moreover, despite their sternly worded letter that they don't do discounts, they're apparently doing discounts direct.
The market's saturated with other products. So fuck 'em and stop posting schiit here.
http://schiit.com/about/on-deals
Schiit apparently still has a back catalog of original Magnis and Modis it's selling off at a discounted rate, maybe we could get them to sell stacks of those for $140 to $150.
They are selling them direct already at reduced cost. This isn't a bad Idea, I just think that it is unlikely that Schiit would dump them here for any cheaper than what they are selling them direct. Even if they took $10 off, we'd pay that again in shipping.
True enough. Still, since they want to get rid of them (clearly, or else they wouldn't go against usual policy to lower the price) I figured it could be a good opportunity to do so, but yes, the discount would have to be steeper in order to entice people, which would make it hardly worth the costs of Schiit shipping them to Massdrop's warehouse. Another potential plus would be establishing a wider customer base for Schiit and/or Massdrop, but it seems there's already a pretty big overlap between people familiar with either company.
C'est la vie I suppose. I already have a stack so I'm not complaining.