Miniature Mentor releases Advanced Tutorials One

[josgertz]

Boycott?

I am not saying to boycott them, they make a quality product.

Now look at the $30 I paid for the original video and the $20 I paid for the service. $50 spent total so far and a reoccurring $8 a month for future videos. So with what the retail is we are only getting a $2 per month discount. Right now they are running a special to join for $40 and $8 a month which is $10 cheaper.

In my opinion you need o drop the price to $10/$8 per month for people that already purchased the original video. Run that special until the same date as the new member special. If you do this though make sure that you reimburse those that already paid the $20 fee, even if its a coupon for something or a 2 free months.

Also you really need to get rid of that 1 cent cost to download the videos. Frankly its bullshit if your going to charge for a subscription based service and then charge people to download content after the have paid.

 

[RobberBaron]

So just to clarify then, if we pay for the subscription, we can download any of their videos and pay .01 each download? The videos aren\'t streaming on the web site?

 

[josgertz]

Correct

Originally posted by RobberBaron
So just to clarify then, if we pay for the subscription, we can download any of their videos and pay .01 each download? The videos aren\'t streaming on the web site?

You pay a penny, not sure what the EU equivalent is, and you get a code and a link to download the videos only once. If you need to download them again you need to pay a penny again.

They are not streaming videos

 

[atacam]

Originally posted by josgertz
I am not saying to boycott them, they make a quality product.

Now look at the $30 I paid for the original video and the $20 I paid for the service. $50 spent total so far and a reoccurring $8 a month for future videos. So with what the retail is we are only getting a $2 per month discount. Right now they are running a special to join for $40 and $8 a month which is $10 cheaper.

In my opinion you need o drop the price to $10/$8 per month for people that already purchased the original video. Run that special until the same date as the new member special. If you do this though make sure that you reimburse those that already paid the $20 fee, even if its a coupon for something or a 2 free months.

Also you really need to get rid of that 1 cent cost to download the videos. Frankly its bullshit if your going to charge for a subscription based service and then charge people to download content after the have paid.

The only reason I said boycott it is this is the only way companies listen. In my opinion we, the faith placers are being conned. I have sent another email to them, and had no reply. So if others stop buying this product then the company will realise they cant do it, and others may think before trying it.

don\'t you feel like you have been conned?....I do.

 

[switch327]

Origineel geplaatst door josgertz

Originally posted by RobberBaron
So just to clarify then, if we pay for the subscription, we can download any of their videos and pay .01 each download? The videos aren\'t streaming on the web site?

You pay a penny, not sure what the EU equivalent is, and you get a code and a link to download the videos only once. If you need to download them again you need to pay a penny again.

They are not streaming videos

If you have to download the video again just send them a mail and thay will give you a new link.

So you won\'t have to pay that 0.01 again.
The 0.01 at current rates isn\'t even written of my bankaccount, it\'s far less the a eurocent.

I agree that the introduction of the subscription was a bit sloppy, but hey, they are new and it is a quality product, so I subscribed anyway.
I mean a boycot for $10 (€6.35) is a bit overdone

just my 2c (or less then a € cent)

 

[atacam]

It\'s a matter of principle. Something so few people seem to have nowadays.

It doesn\'t matter if it is €1 or €100. why should I pay more because i placed my faith in these people, and the people that held off got the better deal.

To put it bluntly unless I get it for the same price as the later people I will never purchase another item off of these people, and recommend others stay away too.

 

[War Griffon]

0.01 USD = 0.00501425 GBP

There is nothing in the UK that small so how the hell are they going to manage to charge us that??? (I think most banks would probably laugh that off or round it up to a penny and rip us off).

When I bought the origonal download the arguement at the time was that the subscription was not working. I have debated and held off buying into the subscription to see what further articles would be like and it seems I have made the right choice at the moment.

If I subscribed to something I would want a copy of what I am subscribing too not watch it on the web and have to pay a fraction more to be abble to download it.

The origonal download had a lot of good stuff on it and it was interesting to see how others paint but if as somebody has already said that on this latest release it is very similar to that of the origonal release then I will not bother to subscribe or buy into any more of the articles.

Showing people how to do NMM on a sword has already been done on the origonal.
Black & white cloth, well red was shown on the origonal so it is only a case of changing the colours really.
Flesh, well I am always interested in a good flesh tutorial but the flesh of a wolfen doesn\'t really interest me that much and I would rather see a good flesh tutorial for human flesh and lets face it (pun intended) there are plenty of in depth ones out there on the web covering all paint mediums.

I would have also liked to have seen the whole figure in its various stages and completed as the demonstration progressed. Not just little bits of it because the origonal was painted and sold a long time ago. What was wrong with doing another specially for the video/dvd???

 

[bullfrog]

That is another point ....you may only have to pay a cent to get the subscription tutorials but I know that in my case I get slugged a ridiculous transaction fee by my bank/credit union for the pleasure of transferring that one cent.
Although when I did mention it to MM they offered to send me a free link in view of the huge fee. The only trouble now is actually getting that link.