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Yeah, you'd think 3 2.99 items today would make for a nice mix, until 2 are Gen9 hairs only, and one is from someone I don't buy for
Luckily to make up for that, my christmas calendar has worked out and for the 2nd day in a row i've got a character from my wishlist for free.
https://www.daz3d.com/fleur-hd-for-genesis-8-female
Funnily enough the 2.99 item has a lower base price by miles
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-vampire-outfit-pants-for-genesis-8-and-81-females
I loathe how I have one day on the calendar where I have a choice for a free texture for some random V3 item I'll never own, or a 2.99 texture for some G3 item I'll also never own, so I decline to take either. Then, suddenly, I only get the 2.99 option and have to pay if I want any other free option. So my calendar is "missed, missed, missed, missed"
same here. I wonder if others have the same issue. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate getting something cheaper or for free. Just thinking...
Today's more or less free presents:
The free one is FG Waitress Outfit ($ 19.95 Base Price, from the Ice Cream Parlour Bundle) and the $ 2.99 "present" is the X Fashion Dark Secrets Top ($ 11.95 Base Price, from the X-Fashion Outfit Bundle), which might be a bit "newer"...
Both items were on my recently expanded Wishlist, both are DOs. I removed all of Mousso's figures from the wishlist yesterday, to see how that would work with the present choice code.
If you look at the textures there are transparency maps. A SBH don't use transparency maps, and a cap is usually hidden. Furthermore the last promo show the haircards.
The easiest way to use SBH hair on another generation IMHO is not to fit it but just scale and place and then parent to head-bone.
The freebie is based on having a recent purchase. I have skipped both advent calandar items three or four times without losing my freebie offer the next day.
i'm beginning to think the issues I was having with this sale not giving me offers or freebies from my wishlist, may be related to the default ad blocker settings of my web browser, which was not letting Daz use my wishlist for marketing.
By default Brave browser has built-in ad blocking enabled for all sites. So I disabled it for Daz yesterday, and then when I logged in I was shown the privacy policy thing at the bottom which I never saw before, so I accepted it before adding more items to my wishlist yesterday. Anyway, I received a freebie from my wishlist finally today and it was one that I had just added after all this and my $2.99 was also from my wishlist. This is the first time this has happened since the start of this sale. So it could be related.
Oh joyous day! I've wanted the DO Mira character for a long time now and I managed to get the starter bundle for $3.57 a few minutes ago. It popped up on my LD, added it to my cart with today's Holiday Deal, an item from my WL, 4 tokens and my Premier coupon, and that's the result. It's my personal lowest record for a G9 bundle. LD can go back to my usual fare of selected themes I never buy for the rest of the month.
Nicely done! Congrats!
2nd night in a row, both the freebie and the new 2.99 calendar offer are from my wishlist, so its finally working for me! So in my case it was my adblocker screwing things up. So if you have a big wishlist but you still aren't getting offers or freebies from your wishlist, check your ad block settings. I never suspected that would be the case when I assume my wishlist is stored on Daz servers, but maybe they are not allowed to use that data for marketing unless you opt in.
Next day, next present choices...
The really free one today is Sofie HD (old-ish, Base Price $ 20.95), while the present to pay for is KOO Janek (newer, also BP $ 20.95).
Seems a products age makes the difference for it being free or not, while the base price isn't unrelated.
Added a few more DO's after my last post. Last two days, the $2.99 offering has been from my wishlist, the freebie has been random unwanted stuff.
...hmm I have an advert blocker running and get items from my wishlist showing up on the calendar including for the free item.
Present presents presented:
Today, after again cleaning up my WL from some not-too-much-wanted products, I got offered for free the Long Tonic and Skirt Outfit (Base Price $ 20.95), for which I already got the then not wishlisted texture pack earlier, and as the "to pay for present" Metamixer - Plus (BP $ 16.95, newer than the other product).
DO wishlist items are down to ~20 that should be eligible for "presents" (most of which I really would like to have) and with 13 days to go I might catch them all (or hopefully most of them) without having to adjust my WL more...
Looking at the Giftcard dicount trend, after the New Year, it will be negative :D
paying $18 for the only item that interests me in the debut new, to save $6 off an item is just not a sale to me. I haven't had my coffee yet.
Aeon Soul has always been a bit on the higher side of the pricing curve, but $32 for a new item seems way too high for me, but if you look at the new debut today, there is nothing that I would consider a decent price overall, and those prices reflect 30% off. You know, the jeans I buy, real people jeans, are $19.99. Shirts are around $20 as well. When hobby clothing, etc is more than that, I can;t justify buying it any longer, especially when I need to pay bills, buy food, etc.
It is life, and I'm having a difficult time adjusting to the new reality, so please bear with me, if possible.
I think aeon soul are trying too hard to capitalize their popularity. I love their products and i do think are worth more than most. Some of their products actually were too cheap for what they offered a few years ago. But today both outfits are just too similar to consider them separated at that high base prices. Last sets were very popular (considering the time lasted in 'what's hot') besides being little mesh, even more the tiniest one was by far the more popular. So releasing these where one looks just like the top open version of the other; a bit much in my opinion, just trying to exploit the ones who want the 'open top' version too. I'm not saying there isn't extra work on close/open, but they are literally asking to pay twice for pants and shoes and forcing to buy at least one addon to get matching close/open texture.
I'll be honest, I've never got any of their content, the model used for promo's/style of render puts me off ha. But seeing the price for what is effectively an alt version of the same outfit $32 each is laughable, i'm sorry but that's a joke considering the shoes and the trousers are the same just different textures it appears.
Anyway sticking to sales talk, LD have not been of interest lately, seems not enough other sales aligning with the LD selection to get any super deals
Ah, but on one set of trousers the drawstring is tied in a bow, while the other dangles untied. (Tries to keeps a straight face!
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It looks like one series of promo renders was using a tied morph and the other an untied morphs, because they are pictures with the list of morphs available for that part and they look very similar.
Main difference (outside of the jacket being open or not), if the textures are compatible between the open and closed version of the jacked is that each products has its own set of two textures sets so when you get both, you may end with 4 textures sets.
I'm not saying it's enough difference for the budget, but the pants are different fits too, look at them side by side. I kind of prefer the baggier fit of the pants but get more milage out of the closed top. Not sure if morphs on the pants change the fit as much as is seen in the promos.
The list of morphs on each product page seems different for the pants, so you're likely right about them.
They covered only one gender before while the latest also has an option for men, which may explain the split between G8 and G9.
I agree, and being kind of late to the AeonSoul appreciation because I only discovered their products last year, I gotta say I'm not as impressed with them in actual use as I thought I would be. With the City Vibes dress outfit for instance, there's a huge number of Mat poses with thumbs that are just plain color swatches, with no indication whatsoever as to which part of the outfit this particular instance of the color setting applies to. And the names of the Mat poses are literally just the color name, again and again. You have to look at the file specifics in the content browser to see the actual file name and thus find out that this colors the dress, this colors the trim, etc. This seems so incredibly inconvenient, I've basically stopped using their stuff atm. But it might be that I'm just not getting their file system, of course.
Same, although I belatedly realized that some dirt effect I have is one of theirs. Probably because with that sort of thing I admit I just amass a bunch of options with the thught that when I get around to needing it, I can mix and match until I get something that fits the particular splatter involved. I don't really look closely at the promos for that stuff, beyond seeing whether the gunk (of whatever sort) actually looks reasonably like what it's supposed to be.
For the past 10 days, my Advent Calendar paid option was a WL item, & 1 day both were from my WL. During most of that time, I was Base tier, holding off resuming a paid tier to suit the budget. Late yesterday I bought into a paid tier. Today, I was offered free G8 belly dancer poses ($16 full price) & the paid item was a ridiculous G8 miniskirt ($10) from when Daz experimented with selling an entire outfit piecemeal. Neither is something I want or would use. And I have plenty of WL items in the price range ($20 or so) I've usually been offered. Thanks, Daz, for that wonderful "Welcome Back"; it really makes me feel like rejoining was a great idea. /Sarcasm
I couldn't be bothered playing their game, If they can't have an algorithm that takes into consideration a person’s last 12 months spend and offer something back for being a loyal customer rather than rewarding someone who just purchased one item yesterday and saying to a loyal customer "take a long walk off a short pier". Then Daz3D is not in the right place customer service wise. I'm not going to waste my valuable time scrolling through endless thumbnails looking for a product I "might" use. I haven't added any DO products to my wish list. The only product I did add was https://www.daz3d.com/z-lifting-and-carrying-boxes-utility-pose-mega-set-for-genesis-9-and-8-female because I have a Gretchen G character and rendering images with a Grinch character taking away Christmas presents is how I feel about this advent calendar.
Today's presents for me are:
Emil for G8 (Base Price $ 19.95, older product) for free, while the Luna Outfit Cape for G8.1 (Base Price $ 11.95, part of a set, newer than the other gift) is supposed to cost me $ 2.99 (which would be 60 ct more than the best recent price, it seems).
Addition to my previous post:
Even thought it's only a small number of samples (because I didn't note not ALL presents offered to me...) the last 8 day's examples show a tendency:
The free presents I got offered all have a SKU below 80,000 (most even below 70,000), while the $ 2.99 "presents" come - with one exception - from the above 80,000 SKU range. All of these came from the wishlist that I expanded just then.
How long does a recently released item stay in the "still new" category? (I don't know if there's a fixed rule, but I believe there's a statistical average, or better, a minimum I can expect for an item to be considered "still new".)