A question for those who have purchased the black club membership - what 3 downloads have you downloaded (if you've done it yet) I can't choose .. I might just select Fade and then wait a month or so to c if anythiing else is out ...
I haven't sorted them all out yet in terms of what I want versus what I already have.
Don't count on that list changing too much with new releases, if at all. The selection is limited for a reason, and most of the downloads on the list have been in release for a good while.
I'm thinking I sift through and try getting "multi-trick" downloads - more bang for the buck, as it were.
I don't understand the appeal of the black club. Seems a lot of money to pay for the privilege of being able to spend your money 72 hours earlier than everybody else. I know you get other benefits too (the main ones for me being the 5%(!) discount and cheap black club decks) but it just feels like another way to get money out of us for very little return.
Well, the heads-up we get is only 24 hours. But if it's a hot item, the odds of getting shut out by server overload are slim to none. The discount could be better, yes - but I think it stacks with other discounts, something the coupon codes don't do, and those codes are one-shot deals while the Black Club discount lasts as long as you're a member and is automatic - you only have to be logged in first. The free swag was cool, and there
was a good deal of cool stuff available that were exclusives for Black Club members only, but the best stuff sold out fast, leaving the rest of us waiting for them to return to stock - we can request email alerts for when that happens, so we don't have to obsessively check the website all the time. Then there's the downloads - not too shabby, though they are mostly older.
Let me think on this a moment...
A free Black Club deck: retail is $18.
The typical price of any given BC download is about $9.95 (they range from $4.95 to $14.95), so that times three is $29.85
There's the box: retail is not applicable, but it sold on eBay for $40 recently. Say it's only $20.
And a free Halo: $16.97
That's a total of $84.82, plus a 5% discount for the remainder of your membership. If you bought just under $1,250 of merchandise over the year, your membership will have paid for itself. For some, that's a tall order - for others, they spend about that much or more anyway.
If you bought a fair amount of merchandise to start with, it's a good deal. Even if you don't hit the break-even point, having access to some of the exclusives is worth it for some people.
