I don't understand that at all. When you purchase something for $199 - why wouldn't they throw in the user guide? I mean, would they rather people get injured and not purchase any Cathe products again or would they rather figure out the user guide pricing with the bundle and allow cathelets to workout with all the necessary tools. This is the first expensive workout program I have come across that does not include user guide in the base purchase.
I own all Cathe DVDs since MIS and this is the first bundle that I have not purchased because I found that it requires too much equipment and was really not impressed when I saw user guide would be an optional purchase.
I was also not impressed that Shock Cardio HIIT was more expensive than the other cardio DVDs in the STS program. Are they trying to say that they didn't put in as much effort in other cardio workouts than they did in the HIIT? The only reason I purchased the HIIT was to make a $50 free international shipping from advanced workout, otherwise I was just planning to purchase Mindy Mylrea Bosu workout and Kelly Coffee Meyer's body training DVDs.
I do get that these things can be expensive to produce but to make one program more expensive than the other and to make people fork out $5 extra for a necessary tool is just ... well ... quite unimpressive!