There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 3

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  • Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Charlie Judge said:

    frank0314 said:

    ajknott said:

    I;m having a problem with today's advent calendar, in taht the 2.99 product is not able to be added to the cart, either from the product page or the sale page itself.

    I can add other things to the cart, but I would like to be able to add this one.

     

    The product that is failing is this one

    https://www.daz3d.com/gn-lora-hair-for-genesis-9

    I own it, but it does add to cart for me. Try clearing your cache in case you're working with a bad cached page

    I own it and I am not able to add it to my cart. 

    Same here.

    I can't add it via a private window either - reported.

    Fixed, certainly for those who don't own it.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,106

    maikdecker said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...well he first "calendar strikeout" tonight, two texture sets for clothing items I don't have (and not interested in). So that blows the theories of at least one item being from my wishlist and turning my advert blocker off.

    There still might be the rule of "price does matter", too, if Your wishlisted are above the (unknown) present price thresholt.

    It might be the reason for me getting offered one item from my wishlist, together with one non-wishlisted item today, too.
    My free present today is Aniyah (wishlisted, base price $ 19.95, SKU 65283), while the "to be bought present" is Elf Style DForce Outfit for Horse 3 (useless, as I don't own/intend to buy Horse 3; base price $ 24.99, SKU 89420).

    From my wishlisted DO products 15 are SHU <70,000, most of those at Base Price $ 19.95 or 20.95 (which seems around the maximum for my (!) free presents), except for four "test products" with Base Prices from $ 22.95 to $ 27.95. While only three with a SKU > 80,000 are left, with Base Prices between $ 21.95 and $ 26.95, one of them even DAZ+

    ...I had  a DO item with an MSRP of 27.99 USD show up as 2.99 option  and another with an MSRP of 24.99 USD as the freebie

  • My $2.99 item had a base price of $34.99 yesterday.

  • Well, thank you DAZ. Everything I purchased the last three days is now cheaper - and would have made it easier to reach the $100 target for todays sale.
    At least I focused just on 1-2 products as I've seen this coming.

  • ainm.sloinneadh said:

    My $2.99 item had a base price of $34.99 yesterday.

    So the calender items are personalized? Well, lucky you. In my case most of the $2.99 items are textures which have already been available at a better price.

  • Rod Wise Driggo said:

    ainm.sloinneadh said:

    My $2.99 item had a base price of $34.99 yesterday.

    So the calender items are personalized? Well, lucky you. In my case most of the $2.99 items are textures which have already been available at a better price.

    That's the highest I've had. I think most of them have been around $19.99. I didn't buy it anyway. I've seen it cheaper and it's on my wishlist as a may need in the future rather than a have a use for it now item.

    I've had some textures too, but yes, all have been from from my wishlist and therefore personalised. My wish list is 47 pages long - probably around 9 pages of DO's. No idea which of those are eligible. I don't think the base figures/HD add-one are (they're pricey), and I thought the Daz+ items wouldn't be either, although someone got one of those yesterday (albeit bugged). I've mostly gotten DA DO G8 figures, which I packed my wishlist with on the first day of the calendar. I've been fortunate that that's worked out for me and appreciate the selections I've been given. If you're interested in those too, perhaps try putting some of those on your wishlist. I'm happy to list those I've received if it helps people.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 2,752

    Thanks to those who informed us about their personal high-price present options ^^ As seems to be seen, it might have something to do with how much someone spends here. Or not. Who, except DAZ, knows wink

    My presents today are - again - in the lower base price range:
    Sienna HD (SKU 63419, Base Price $ 20.95) comes free of charge, while DJ Thea HD (SKU 83481, also Base Price $ 20.95) is the "pay for me" present option. I added Thea just yesterday, to up the number on 80k+ SKU products in my wishlist.

  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 393

    My 2.99 item today is a Metamixer Add-On haha.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,406

    This is the Big Sale? Prices look the same in my WL. Not playing cart Jenga. Missed one day and lost all my punches. Done with that! Don't have tokens. Prices seem a lot higher since my D+ expired. The advent calendar is ok - Thanks for that, though it does seem like I'm buying the gifts with "recent purchases." No enticing flash sales, no wondrous bargains. In all, this has been a bust for me. Sorry. Wish I had better tidings to share. Oh well. There's always next year, always another sale.

  • I've given up on Advent Jenga. Anything I try in the hopes of 'optimizing' whatever algorithm Daz uses either works for a single day or doesn't work at all.

    Calendar was pretty great for the first week or so, anyway. I'm grateful for that.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,078

    all i get in calendar are for textures of items I dont have at $2.99 each. I have had no punches for a few days so no free calendar items. I've skipped most of them anyway.  No tokens. As @Torquinox stated, the pricies seem higher than when in DAZ+, I agree. I had stated before they are beyond my budget. I almost just signed for Premier a bit ago, see no reason to sign up for DAZ+ again, and then decided to wait. We will see what happens on the 24th and 25th. I have the two $2.99 items in my cart, the Holidaz Deals, the hair and the Zeddicus poses. Not sure If I will buy them yet. I usually watch the LD but that's been a bust for most of this month so far. Again, its mostly textures and things too expensive for a LD, at least in my opinion. Almost everything has to have a debut new for a buy-in, and that just puts me off. Not going to pay that much to get another 10% off or whatever and the prices are still too high, even at 70% off. 

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,406

    I started buying small GCs to power my advent calendar freebies. Pretty sure someone proved that works earlier in the thread, but that won't generate punches. At the end, the store credit should let me buy something.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,078

    Torquinox said:

    I started buying small GCs to power my advent calendar freebies. Pretty sure someone proved that works earlier in the thread, but that won't generate punches. At the end, the store credit should let me buy something.

    so far this month I've spent $6.30, that was on 2 different days for the Holidaz item @ $2.99 plus tax. Ultrascenry2 tree pack 1 and Kooki Sylvia HD. I already have way too many characters, why I keep buying them is beyond me. I just picked several up over at Rendo in their calendar deal.... plus other stuff.  

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,406

    daveso said:

    so far this month I've spent $6.30, that was on 2 different days for the Holidaz item @ $2.99 plus tax. Ultrascenry2 tree pack 1 and Kooki Sylvia HD. I already have way too many characters, why I keep buying them is beyond me. I just picked several up over at Rendo in their calendar deal.... plus other stuff.  

    I've decided, there's no such thing as too many characters. And the Rendo Calendar has been a blast! So much stuff! I feel dizzy. laugh 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 960

    Torquinox said:

    This is the Big Sale? 

    Well, in fairness, according to Daz Marketing, /every/ sale is The Big Sale. 

    Personally I'm having a little giggle at the fact that it's a "last minute shopping" sale... because I'm pretty sure that people on here are mostly buying for themselves, and last minute shopping tends to be for OTHER people, brought on by some impending occasion. But hey, when they bring back a ton of artists the chances of a decently priced LD increase, so I'm all for that aspect.

    And I do like the poses today. I don't give a toss about the pinup part, but one of my characters is a hobyist photographer, so a few more I can use for her are definitely a win for me.

  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 114

    I'm a little fed up with this sales game. I keep consuming every day because I don't know when the discount day will be. It seems that today I need 100 US dollars to get the extra discount. It can't be used on gift cards. No, I don't have that much budget to use anymore , I think I will continue to spend every day until the last day, but when the real big discount comes, maybe the budget will be exhausted.

    Of course, I am very grateful and satisfied with the free gifts. At the same time, another website is also giving out gifts every day. I think there will be a long period of time next year when I will not spend money unless the things I buy can bring me enough income.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,961

    The $100 total is BEFORE punches and tokens. So if you have 3 punches and 8 tokens your cart an reach "$100" for as little as around $36-ish. I added a bit more to get to $40 to get the extra token but you can get over $100 worth for around $36 if you add a debut item (which goes down to 75% off.) Everything else in my cart was 85%-95% off.  If you just keep adding things to your cart, suddenly it will jump down in price. You don't need to spend more than $40 to get the 20% off $100 deal with 3 punches and 8 tokens! 

  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 114
    edited December 22

    Wonderland said:

    The $100 total is BEFORE punches and tokens. So if you have 3 punches and 8 tokens your cart an reach "$100" for as little as around $36-ish. I added a bit more to get to $40 to get the extra token but you can get over $100 worth for around $36 if you add a debut item (which goes down to 75% off.) Everything else in my cart was 85%-95% off.  If you just keep adding things to your cart, suddenly it will jump down in price. You don't need to spend more than $40 to get the 20% off $100 deal with 3 punches and 8 tokens! 

    You are right, I calculated it wrong, but since the most wanted item is only 87% off, I still choose to wait for the next discount. 

    Right now, the outoftouch store has an extra 20% off, now I’m interested

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  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 114

    SnowSultan said:

    AsuCafe said:

    SnowSultan said:

    I don't remember prices being this high since the original $99 DAZ Dragon days, and I'm a Premier member. A single character is $32 and that's with a 35% sale? I've got single outfits in my wishlist that are $33 and a posable book that's $25. After two and a half decades, you guys are on the verge of pricing me out of this hobby. Guess it's good timing that I'm getting more experienced with ComfyUI.

    What character is so expensive? since understanding the sales model of DAZ,, I rarely buy a single item that is less than 88% off or more than $5. 

    At the moment, it's Dain 9, but he does go on sale for more than 35% every so often. I also wait for big sales, it just seems like things start out with higher base prices now and you have to wait for a once or twice a year sale to really get the best discounts.

    I remembered this. Dain 9 HD is now on sale for $3.43 (93% off, maximum discount) 

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 2,752

    Today's presents:
    Volleyball Poses for G8F (SKU 68179, Base Price $ 15.95) for free. The "spend $ 2.99 on a present" offer is A Path To Somewhere (SKU 89503, Base Price 19.99) and was added to the wishlist two days ago, to "fill the options up".

    In both cases there were offers I'd prefer to get for x-mas, as I know it's a tradition to give things like socks, ties or ugly sweaters instead of what people really want to have as presents... wink

  • Cam FoxCam Fox Posts: 67

    AsuCafe said:

    I'm a little fed up with this sales game. I keep consuming every day because I don't know when the discount day will be. It seems that today I need 100 US dollars to get the extra discount. It can't be used on gift cards. No, I don't have that much budget to use anymore , I think I will continue to spend every day until the last day, but when the real big discount comes, maybe the budget will be exhausted.

    Of course, I am very grateful and satisfied with the free gifts. At the same time, another website is also giving out gifts every day. I think there will be a long period of time next year when I will not spend money unless the things I buy can bring me enough income.

    Same boat! I just dumped another huge cart, because there are so many promotions going and the sale is so long, it's unclear when the best discounts will be. The bigger the buy, the more frustrating it gets when tomorrow everything's cheaper due to an unexpected giftcard doubletoken orangebanner couponcode wishlist bonuspunch premieronly stacking "thank you" promotion. >.> But--- just in case--- still playing the punch game and hoarding a few tokens, since ynever know. I'm enjoying the advent freebies and finding value in the Today's Deal new releases and happy to wait and see! (Though budget is trickling away at other shops in the meantime!)

  • rokkrrokkr Posts: 190

    Wonderland said:

    The $100 total is BEFORE punches and tokens. So if you have 3 punches and 8 tokens your cart an reach "$100" for as little as around $36-ish. I added a bit more to get to $40 to get the extra token but you can get over $100 worth for around $36 if you add a debut item (which goes down to 75% off.) Everything else in my cart was 85%-95% off.  If you just keep adding things to your cart, suddenly it will jump down in price. You don't need to spend more than $40 to get the 20% off $100 deal with 3 punches and 8 tokens! 

    It didn't work for me this way... I kept adding and adding and nothing changed, so I bought the item I really wanted plus a deal of the day to make it a tenner and get two tokens back...

    B.T.W., what's the catch to get the $20 bucks of gift from today? Is it only if you join Premier today and not earlier? Because mine is not working... If so, that really sucks...

     

  • DasTriDasTri Posts: 90

    rokkr said: Is it only if you join Premier today and not earlier? Because mine is not working... If so, that really sucks...

    Seems so. In effect its a "join Premiere free for a month (but you have to remember to cancel it on your own)" promotion.

    The ad claiming "20$ free gift with Premiere" is just that tiny bit misleading. Not that this is a big surprise, as most advertised "free" items need a more or less expensive buy in.

     

  • I suppose this is another drawback to moving to a perpetual subscription model rather than membership being a cartable product. I might've added another month to the cart today, but as that's no longer an option, I'll still be expiring my membership when it ends.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 2,752

    My personal presents today:
    The really free one is Mari HD (SKU 70635, Base Price $ 20.95) while the "pay us, to get a present" one is Essential Stationary Props (SKU 89703, Base Price $ 14.99).

    The main promo picture of Mari always reminded me of the only good thing in the last Dexter season, Dexter's sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), so I got a nice present wink

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 960

    First day today where my advent freebie isn't from my wishlist (though it was a reasonably decent G3/8 hair). My paid item is. I'm still deciding what to do... I probably wouldn't use that hair much, and the paid item isn't urgent and I could likely get it better if I waited, but I do want to keep my punches going in case there's a decent sale in the next couple days and I'm pretty much out of cheapies I want. Maybe see what LD holds, I dunno.

    For the record, nothing changed. I still have a butt-ton (metric) of non D+ DO's in the right vintage and price range in my wishlist. Adding a few more today just in case, but if tomorrow's back to WL I guess I'll never know if that's what did it or if today was just a fluke and it would've happened anyway.

  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 787

    I finally give up on the advent calendar. Last week most of the 2.99 was from my already very small pool of qualifiying free items; that means i will be back to useless textures soon enough. Don't know what else to add, don't care any more so no more $1 GC to keep it either. I do apreciate PA freebies.

    Rendo calendar has been awesome and 3Dshards one has it good moments too. Neither of those discriminates 'if' and 'what' you get.

     

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,406

    I've been getting the cheapest items on my WL except one, but I've got stuff I'm glad to have. I don't have an account on 3d shards. Rendo has outdone themselves this year.

  • ElorElor Posts: 1,665

    Wolfwood said:

    Rendo calendar has been awesome and 3Dshards one has it good moments too. Neither of those discriminates 'if' and 'what' you get.

    3DShards is one free item per day. Most of the days, it's exactly the same as what anyone can get without purchase at Daz, and some days, they are two items available for anyone here.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,078

    so on the Premiere deal, you join and get $20 of free product? Is anything at DAZ $20 anymore?  Has anyone done it and what did you get? G3 or earlier or something current? As much as I totally dislike the new way of memebership, DAZ+ a second class membership and Premiere pretty darn expensive, I've found out, again, after allowing my membership to lapse, if you want to spend here you have to have a membership. I think its just a fact if you want anything new. Yeah, there's always another sale, but to be hones, none of them since I've not been a member have been priced where I would buy the stuff. Free is great, and now the $2.99 deals are great, but day to day items are just way high overall. 

    Now my question, do I pop a month, get in on some of the deals during the holidays, or just keep moving on. There's always another sale on down the road that could be better. 

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