OK First up, I brought one of the previous MacHeist bundles and have no problem with what they are doing. I believe I’ve been over that before.

However my problem is that their current ‘best of’ bundle sales were very VERY slow, this is to be expected really since it is not a new bundle and most purchasers of said bundle probably have the previous and no need for the new one. What really gets me though is that they now claim the bundles sold count was wrong and was supposed to show the count of total sales bundles from MacHeist bundle 1,2 and now 3. Now they state this so there is no misrepresentation here. But we all know that the idea here is people will look at the big number that jumped over 60,000 in one night since they ‘corrected it’ and think wow.

You can argue that this move is to counter the very well selling bundle over at mupromo.com (another great bundle site) and is obviously going to sell better since it has the latest Parallels in it for running Windows on the Mac.

As I state, I have no problem with MacHeist and we all know the controversy it has created over the years (which is by design and helps sales as we all know). But this latest move is questionable at best, and certainly has left a sour taste in the mouth of even MacHeist fans. It’s not wrong, but I think Ethical behavior went out the window at the MacHeist office this time around and they should be ashamed of themselves over this move. I just don’t by that they made a ‘5 day old mistake’ on the count since they always go to great lengths to set these things up with meticulous detail.