MarkBremmer opened this issue on Feb 12, 2010 · 43 posts
Xerxes0002 posted Fri, 02 April 2010 at 7:49 PM
Quote - I'm not seeing a good upgrade path from 6pro to 7pro .
Carrara 7 Pro Upgrade from Carrara 6 Pro is $169.95
Carrara 7 Pro Upgrade from Carrara 6 Pro is $99.93 for Platinum Members.
So if I sign up for the Annual Platinum Membership so I can do the upgrade for the Lower Price, I would have to pay $99.95 + $99.93 = $199.98 which is more than if I simply do the upgrade without being a Platinum Member.
The other option would be to sign up for the Monthly Platinum Membership for $7.95 and than cancel the membership.
The other thing that is strange is that the Monthly membership is $4.55 cheaper over the annual subscription over a 12 month period. Normally Annual subscription are made cheaper than monthly subscriptions as an incentive for people to sign up.
The only thing is missing adding in the inital cost of joining. The monthly being cheaper by $4.55 its not including the purchase of the initial membership of $29.95. So we would have this 7.95*12=95.40 + 29.95 = $125.35 about 25.40 savings. On the second year or if you choose to switch from monthly to annual, you pay the renewal rate of $69.95 compared to the monthly of $95.40 about $25.45 in savings. I started out a monthly then switched to annual by just the 69.96. I know some are doing that with getting the Carrara by paying for just the membership and when there funds build up switching to the full annual if they are keeping it.
That would mean for those not having the platinum club, if you wanted to take advantage of the upgrade of C6 pro it would be 129.90.