Steam aircraft dragon $99 !!! Really???

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,123
edited June 2012 in The Commons

$99 for the Steam aircraft dragon! Wow! Um..., I hope this is a mistake.
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/steam-aircraft-dragon/

For $99 I'd expect a detailed interior too but all I see is yet another $19.95 fantasy plane.

Also questioning about if there's a freebie this week. It's Thursday already.

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  • adamr001adamr001 Posts: 1,322
    edited December 1969

    Steam Aircraft is a PC Membership bonus item. Priced as such to show you it's cheaper to buy a PC Membership (and get it for free) than to buy the item at that price.


    The weekly freebie is here: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/stage-magician-props

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    adamr001 said:
    Steam Aircraft is a PC Membership bonus item. Priced as such to show you it's cheaper to buy a PC Membership (and get it for free) than to buy the item at that price.


    The weekly freebie is here: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/stage-magician-props

    hey thanx, the magician props do not show up in the store for me no matter what i try, the only way I have gotten it to show up is through your link, never would have seen it otherwise

  • WahilWahil Posts: 307
    edited December 1969

    adamr001 said:
    Steam Aircraft is a PC Membership bonus item. Priced as such to show you it's cheaper to buy a PC Membership (and get it for free) than to buy the item at that price.

    Um . . . . . If that's a PC item, is it even possible for a non-PC member to buy the item at any price? Just wondering.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2012

    the non-pc price is usually 9.95. my theory is typo.


    i had a lil trouble at checkout with it. it said something about no invoice, i clicked continue a 2nd time and it went through. in firefox


    the mac file is a zip. the pc file is an exe

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  • Patrick TynerPatrick Tyner Posts: 640
    edited December 1969

    Yeah, $99.95 seems a little excessive, okay a lot excessive.....or maybe a typo. Either way as cool as it looks I can't see paying it, $9.95 or $19.95 tops.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited December 1969

    adamr001 said:
    Steam Aircraft is a PC Membership bonus item. Priced as such to show you it's cheaper to buy a PC Membership (and get it for free) than to buy the item at that price.


    The weekly freebie is here: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/stage-magician-props


    There's an idea. "Buy this item and get an Annual Platinum Club Membership FREE!"


    :-)


    Kendall

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    its still cheaper than an unflatable pony

  • edited June 2012

    im a PC member....and since last week ive been getting items that are WAY over priced. PC items showing up in the $40 range.

    I cant even find this weeks free item.

    I see the PC items..and they are $10+...BANSHEE FLYER.....$16.95???

    what the dilly yo?

    Post edited by randydood_961bf59e16 on
  • edited December 1969

    PC MEMBERSHIP auto-renewal for us Month to Monthers isnt fixed yet i presume?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Randyd I have flagged this up for you.

  • edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Randyd I have flagged this up for you.

    thank you very much

  • LordHardDrivenLordHardDriven Posts: 937
    edited December 1969

    adamr001 said:

    Thanks but how did you find that? I've been looking for it since Tuesday and it never came up in any of the sort configurations I tried.

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    adamr001 said:

    Thanks but how did you find that? I've been looking for it since Tuesday and it never came up in any of the sort configurations I tried.


    ditto, even when i know it exists its incredibly hard to get it to appear in the store. I was trying to help a friend of mine get it and it took an hour to find it and i knew what i was looking for. If I had no idea what the weekly freebie was there would be no way to know what to look for.

    Oh yeah, on my friend's computer, the first thing i tried was typing in Stage Magician Props in the store search, it came back as no products match your search, but typing the same thing at my computer brings up 5 pages of results. The store is absolutely weird, you never know what it will do

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 95,997
    edited December 1969

    It was, fortunately, linked from the newsletter and I think in at least one "You may also be interested in..." list. But no, it isn't (or hasn't been) showing in New Releases.

  • adamr001adamr001 Posts: 1,322
    edited December 1969

    Yup, newsletter. Once I knew it was there a search for "magician" in the store page brought it up as the first result for me.

  • DWGDWG Posts: 770
    edited December 1969

    Denny L said:
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    Um . . . . . If that's a PC item, is it even possible for a non-PC member to buy the item at any price? Just wondering.

    My guess is it will be available at a more normal price in a few months. It's not the first time DAZ have used inflated pricing to separate out a conditional freebie in the store (c.f. the Fight Club boots last week), but they really need a better method as it tends to cause a lot of confusion for people who don't know about the freebie or understand that it's a workaround.

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