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MacHeist3 — 12 Mac Apps for 39$

Once a year the MacHeist Team offers a nice bundle of Mac applications for a small price—this year’s bundle consists of iSale, Picturesque, SousChef, World Of Goo, PhoneView, LittleSnapper, Acorn, Kinemac, WireTap Studio, BoinxTV, The Hit List and Espresso.

I had already planned to purchase LittleSnapper a while ago—it’s 39$ on its own, so by purchasing the MacHeist3 Bundle for 37$ (2$ off for community members) I got it actually cheaper and with a lot of additional value. That said, I’m eager to try out PhoneView (manages iPhone’s data on the Mac) and Espresso (a code editor for web workers)—and iSale will probably come in pretty handy for some stuff I have planned for the next time.

Fail!

While my first purchase two days ago failed for unknown reasons (I got a purchase confirmation from PayPal, but nothing from MacHeist, the latter also displayed nothing but a blank page upon returning from PayPal), I happily got my copies of the apps this morning—after receiving my money back from the first try.

The real fail

Okay, MacHeist messed up my first order. But after asking for help and describing the problem, why do you tell me that

Receipts have been going out slower than expected due to the high volume of activity on the server. You should receive a bundle receipt within 24 hours. Please make sure to check your junk mail folder to see if it was routed there.

…only to transfer the money back half an hour later without notice? Come on, admit that something went wrong, tell me about it and instruct me to repeat the purchase if necessary. But don’t send me a canned response which has nothing to do with the problem or what you’re doing.

Just my 2 Cents.

Now go and get your MacHeist 3 Bundle—25% of each purchase go to charity.

Update: This feels weird as well: