I've already purchased the sourcebook bundle, with the understanding that future source books would be discounted.
However, the prices seem all over the place for this new book (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount). The book on its own is $29.99, and is discounted to $26.99 in my cart. This makes sense. There are also the two critter bundles. The first one is $32.99, and the second one is $62.98. However, the only thing I'd be getting from either of them is the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. Owning 4/5 of the items (which are all the same price btw) in the bundle only discounts the price by half. That means you would be buying 20% of the content for 50% of the price.
Does this not seem odd to anyone else? Why would these two bundles not be the price of the once item they contain? I know I can just buy the book alone, but that's not the point here.
The prices you're seeing for the critter bundles is the price of the bundles minus the money you've spent on any of the books you already own. As such, if you managed to get better discounts on those books than the discount offered by the bundle, you may actually have more left to spend on the bundle than the individual book. Also, discounts from other bundles don't apply to future bundle purchases.
Say you have Bundle X that contains three books at $30. It has a 10% discount meaning it costs (3 x $30) - 10% = $81
You bought two of the books with a 20% discount before bundle X came out
That means those two books count as $30 - 20% credit ($24). This means you have $48 credit towards Bundle X
This means bundle X will display it's price as $81 - your credit of $24, which is $33, which is indeed more than the individual purchase. It's due to how D&D Beyond will always credit you the money you've previously spent towards future purchases and bundles where possible
So happy I came across this thread - I was so confused! Thank you, Davedamon, for the explanation! I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, with the Critter Bundle (of which I actually have all three digital books already), I would owe $8.00 but not receive anything new! Lol! :)
As feedback to D&D Beyond, that is a bit confusing... not sure the fix for it, as I get the intention now, but perhaps worth muddling over... maybe putting in an explanation like yours for the clarity or finding a different method to resolve it? Anyway - still happy I'm not going crazy :)
I don't know if that is entirely accurate. I first bought the sourcebook bundle and then later bought the legendary bundle. Both of these were bought on discount. I own everything except Wildemount.
It wants to charge me $80.97 for the critter bundle. In the bundle are 3 books for $29.99 each. It says the price is adjusted based on previously purchased content and a 10% discount.
Full bundle price: 29.99 * 3 = 89.97
Price w/ 10% discount: 89.97 * .90 = 80.97
So, without owning anything on D&D Beyond you can expect to pay $80.97. I own everything and have to pay the same amount. It doesn't seem to factor in me owning PHB+Xanthar. I would expect the price to be under the $80.97 if it was including previous purchases, even if those purchase amounts are reduced. i.e. if the "cost" of my PHB was $15 then I would expect the price to be 80.97-15 or something in that ballpark.
If I try and view my past orders (to see what my PHB+Xanthar cost actually was), I actually get error pages, so I wonder if there's something going on where it isn't/can't pull some purchase history for folks.
edit: Actually, I wonder if this is something with my account. In another thread, someone posted a screenshot and their Critter bundle UI is actually taking into account their legendary discount while mine is not.
It might have to do with the discounts, or maybe the other person bought some books individually first. The point is, these bundles may be showing content you already 100% own for a non-0 price. And they shouldn't be.
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I've already purchased the sourcebook bundle, with the understanding that future source books would be discounted.
However, the prices seem all over the place for this new book (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount). The book on its own is $29.99, and is discounted to $26.99 in my cart. This makes sense. There are also the two critter bundles. The first one is $32.99, and the second one is $62.98. However, the only thing I'd be getting from either of them is the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount.
Owning 4/5 of the items (which are all the same price btw) in the bundle only discounts the price by half. That means you would be buying 20% of the content for 50% of the price.
Does this not seem odd to anyone else? Why would these two bundles not be the price of the once item they contain?
I know I can just buy the book alone, but that's not the point here.
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The prices you're seeing for the critter bundles is the price of the bundles minus the money you've spent on any of the books you already own. As such, if you managed to get better discounts on those books than the discount offered by the bundle, you may actually have more left to spend on the bundle than the individual book. Also, discounts from other bundles don't apply to future bundle purchases.
Say you have Bundle X that contains three books at $30. It has a 10% discount meaning it costs (3 x $30) - 10% = $81
You bought two of the books with a 20% discount before bundle X came out
That means those two books count as $30 - 20% credit ($24). This means you have $48 credit towards Bundle X
This means bundle X will display it's price as $81 - your credit of $24, which is $33, which is indeed more than the individual purchase. It's due to how D&D Beyond will always credit you the money you've previously spent towards future purchases and bundles where possible
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So happy I came across this thread - I was so confused! Thank you, Davedamon, for the explanation! I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, with the Critter Bundle (of which I actually have all three digital books already), I would owe $8.00 but not receive anything new! Lol! :)
As feedback to D&D Beyond, that is a bit confusing... not sure the fix for it, as I get the intention now, but perhaps worth muddling over... maybe putting in an explanation like yours for the clarity or finding a different method to resolve it? Anyway - still happy I'm not going crazy :)
They have received a lot of feedback on this and it's been noticed. DDB is really good at acting on community feedback.
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I don't know if that is entirely accurate. I first bought the sourcebook bundle and then later bought the legendary bundle. Both of these were bought on discount. I own everything except Wildemount.
It wants to charge me $80.97 for the critter bundle. In the bundle are 3 books for $29.99 each. It says the price is adjusted based on previously purchased content and a 10% discount.
Full bundle price: 29.99 * 3 = 89.97
Price w/ 10% discount: 89.97 * .90 = 80.97
So, without owning anything on D&D Beyond you can expect to pay $80.97. I own everything and have to pay the same amount. It doesn't seem to factor in me owning PHB+Xanthar. I would expect the price to be under the $80.97 if it was including previous purchases, even if those purchase amounts are reduced. i.e. if the "cost" of my PHB was $15 then I would expect the price to be 80.97-15 or something in that ballpark.
If I try and view my past orders (to see what my PHB+Xanthar cost actually was), I actually get error pages, so I wonder if there's something going on where it isn't/can't pull some purchase history for folks.
edit: Actually, I wonder if this is something with my account. In another thread, someone posted a screenshot and their Critter bundle UI is actually taking into account their legendary discount while mine is not.
It might have to do with the discounts, or maybe the other person bought some books individually first. The point is, these bundles may be showing content you already 100% own for a non-0 price. And they shouldn't be.