Apple’s iTunes Store which offers music, television shows, movies, and other media has always had a quite diverse pricing scheme. Of course, this all deals with Apple’s contracts with music companies, television companies, etc… If you’re a person who purchases a lot of your media from iTunes, a new “Complete My Season” feature might be something that interests you…
Basically, Complete My Season is a new pricing structure in the iTunes Store that allows iTunes shoppers to purchase the rest of a TV series, or season, at a discounted price. For example, if you have previously purchased a few of your favorite episodes of a particular TV show, and later on down the line decided that you would like to have the whole season, you may purchase the rest of the episodes for that specific season at a discounted price.
Although this seems like a simple concept, it could actually save you quite a bit of money, particularly if you purchase a lot of television shows. Pricing discounts vary from season to season and show to show, so there is not a “set in stone” discount amount for each Complete My Season. To be eligible for and use Complete My Season, however, you must have previously purchased one or two episodes from the specific season that you want to complete.
The above screenshot shows a significant discount for using the Complete My Season feature.
Apple has offered a similar deal for iTunes music shoppers for a few years now, simply dubbed by Apple as “Album-Completion.” The concept of Album-Completion is of course similar to Complete My Season. With A-C, if you have purchased a few songs from a particular album, and at a later time decide that you would like to have the entire album, you can simply use the Album-Completion feature to get a slightly discounted price, from buying the rest of the songs individually or purchasing the entire album.
I would guess that Apple may eventually extend this trend to movies also, maybe with a program that would allow you to purchase the remainder of movies from a trilogy at a discounted price. For example, if you purchased Batman Begins from the App Store, you could purchase The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises at a discounted price in order to “complete the trilogy.”
Thank you for stopping by the site for today’s post. Good news for television series collectors. If you are gifted an iTunes gift card this holiday season, you may want to consider “Completing The Season.” Tis the season to be Jolly.