music production toolkit, which is cheaper online or dealer?

[southboundloco]

hey guys, i am about to purchase my music production toolkit, and i was just wondering if it would be better(cheaper) to buy it online or through a dealer? here in new zealand its NZ$1000 (NZ$999 to be exact)from the dealer,at the digi store, the price is US$495 which is NZ$712 the price difference is quite big...am not sure if what kind of taxes apply, but i've bought some stuff from the digistore and my bank just charged me 1.5% (of the amount being converted) conversion fee and digi had it delivered to me at my doorstep...what's the advantage of buying the music production toolkit from a dealer anyway if there's any? coz as u can see the price difference is quite big...

anyweyz just need some advice, cheers

[mcgirr]

In the States things are much the same. Buying online can often be MUCH cheaper.
But.. with major retailers(Guitar Center.) they will often charge sales tax if there is a retail store in your area.

Some states will charge a sales tax on your online purchase regardless. Mine does not.(Give it time though.. because all politicians have thier hand in the till.)

I dont know the particulars of New Zealand but... a penny saved is a penny earned!
Shipping as always is a concern when its International.

Best of luck.

[southboundloco]

yeah shipping is the biggest thing that concerns me, it would suck to spend money and not get the merchandise. and when that happens there's really nothing i can do at this end... oh well here goes nothing... (fingers crossed)

[southboundloco]

is the music production tool a downloadable file or is it too big?...coz pro tools 7.3 is downloadable i assume that a toolkit shouldn't be as big as the program itself...

anyweyz any thoughts?

[spkguitar]

The toolkit comes with 7 physical disks full of stuff; the program extension, plugins, reverb impulses, and a few other things. It is not download-able.

[dogselur]

I bought my MPT from ALTO Music. altomusic.com I imagine they will ship worldwide. The price was significantly cheaper than the digistore. Email them for a price. [email protected]

[Stiff]

Can't you see the full price when checking out of the Digistore?


Edit:
oops... I mean just BEFORE you check out

[hybridarts]

i just did a recent(and expensive but fun) upgrade to my home recording setup which included switching to m-powered pro tools. living just that bit west of ya, i noticed many things i was looking at purchasing were cheaper overseas even taking into account import tax and postage. in the end i paid a bit more, went down and saw the local shop rep who has served me well with everything i bought(recently and in the past), sat with us days later and showed us tricks with pro tools in store and generally was just very helpful. i don't think it matters where you are in the world the rapport you develop with ya local muso trumps. so i say local dealer. just my two cents

[Stiff]

There's always the security of local dealers to take into account as well. If something goes wrong you can just walk down there and throw it up on the counter.