Reply to: MS Action Pack Promo code?

[sal]

Nah, there were no promo codes or Azure credits when I had mine. You just got a huge stack of CDs and a list of serial keys. Every now and then a courier would deliver a new box of shiny DVDs.

Getting Azure credit sounds like a wonderful boon, presumably in keeping with MAPS history you can use this for running your production server should you wish? Even if not it's a great feature.

The £70ish Azrue credits that come with the Action pack can be used for production, on top of them you have 3x£50ish Azure credits from the 3 MSDN subscriptions that can't used for production but are good for goofing around

[woohoo]

Nah, there were no promo codes or Azure credits when I had mine. You just got a huge stack of CDs and a list of serial keys. Every now and then a courier would deliver a new box of shiny DVDs.

Getting Azure credit sounds like a wonderful boon, presumably in keeping with MAPS history you can use this for running your production server should you wish? Even if not it's a great feature.

I remember my huge pile of DVDs - I've just got rid of them when clearing out the garage.

I use the azure credit for production websites and for testing web jobs and functions etc. I had a quick look and didn't see anything obvious about just using it for training or testing but who would care anyway

[d000hg]

Nah, there were no promo codes or Azure credits when I had mine. You just got a huge stack of CDs and a list of serial keys. Every now and then a courier would deliver a new box of shiny DVDs.

Getting Azure credit sounds like a wonderful boon, presumably in keeping with MAPS history you can use this for running your production server should you wish? Even if not it's a great feature.

[Lance]

Well you get a monthly azure credit (£70 though might have increased to £100) which more than covers the cost for me. Then along with Office licenses and Office 365 email (5 licenses) and operating systems etc, it's good value.

The first year I had a promo code which cut it down to around 200 ish.

Not just o365 email. You get full E3 licenses.
For another £3 a month you get a Skype conference dial in number. This in itself is valuable as clients seem to take for ever to issue conf call numbers and they can be crappy.

Project and Visio as well and you get a real lot for the money.

Total no brainer at 330

[sal]

£330 is what MAPS costs these days... ouch, I think I got mine for £200 when I last used it. But then they kept changing it and I couldn't be arsed, and realised I didn't need it anyway now VS is free for everything I require.
I assume it's still a massive bargain if you use even 10% of it?

I don't think the price has changed much in the past couple of years, It's just thus far people are used to it being more or less constantly 50% off due to a string of promo codes. Azure credits and Office 365 license alone are well worth it if you use them.

[woohoo]

£330 is what MAPS costs these days... ouch, I think I got mine for £200 when I last used it. But then they kept changing it and I couldn't be arsed, and realised I didn't need it anyway now VS is free for everything I require.
I assume it's still a massive bargain if you use even 10% of it?

Well you get a monthly azure credit (£70 though might have increased to £100) which more than covers the cost for me. Then along with Office licenses and Office 365 email (5 licenses) and operating systems etc, it's good value.

The first year I had a promo code which cut it down to around 200 ish.

[d000hg]

£330 is what MAPS costs these days... ouch, I think I got mine for £200 when I last used it. But then they kept changing it and I couldn't be arsed, and realised I didn't need it anyway now VS is free for everything I require.
I assume it's still a massive bargain if you use even 10% of it?

[sal]

yes. Feed it your VAT number and get 20% off.

It's 0% VAT

Check with your accountant to be sure you can claim. Personally I don't think that £70 is worth getting on the VATman radar.

MS stopped offering promo codes for it as of 30.06.2017.

[woohoo]

You need to understand how interstate vat works. He hasn’t really saved you a penny

Hasn’t he, I can’t claim the vat back so I would be out by £70. Tell me what I’m missing

[eek]

You need to understand how interstate vat works. He hasn’t really saved you a penny

[woohoo]

I'm not sure. My invoice says at the bottom ""VAT exempt Intra-EU delivery"

It's 330GBP + 0% VAT

That was in September

Lance, thanks mate you saved me £70. I had to contact MS support to cancel the original order as cancel button doesn't do anything. Once that was done I could renew again and the VAT was removed. Owe you a pint.

[Lance]

It's not for me. I had to edit the contact information then add the vat again. But the original order is still showing vat and it won't cancel so I can do a new renew order.

This is not a great website.

I'm not sure. My invoice says at the bottom ""VAT exempt Intra-EU delivery"

It's 330GBP + 0% VAT

That was in September

[woohoo]

at payment stage. It's for the billing address bit.

It's not for me. I had to edit the contact information then add the vat again. But the original order is still showing vat and it won't cancel so I can do a new renew order.

This is not a great website.

[Lance]

ahhh i see. For the life of me I just can't find where to put the VAT number on my renewal.

at payment stage. It's for the billing address bit.

[woohoo]

Not quite. You put in the vat number and MS won’t charge the VaT at all. FRS makes no odds.

EDIT: more detail on that is that it's a foreign transaction as MS are Ireland based. If you provide them the VAT number they ermove the charge. Whether you should then 'fess up on your VAT returns I don't know, but if you've not been charged VAT I don't see why.

ahhh i see. For the life of me I just can't find where to put the VAT number on my renewal.