A few years ago, I realized that I was getting stuff that I would look at the promos, and say “that;s nice, I could use that in a render someday”. But, I rarely used those items. Now when I look at something I think about it, and If I have a good Idea on how I will use it in a render (i.e. the item makes me want to make the render in my minds eye), then I will probably get it. Though there have been some items that I didn’t get while on sale, that I really needed later and paid “full” price for.
I definitely haven’t bought much since the new web site went live for several reasons. At first I just didn’t enjoy using the new web site at all, but it’s better now (though I still don’t like the forum color scheme - it will give me a headache rather quickly). With the change in how the PC vouchers worked, I was much less tempted to use them (and actually didn’t use a couple of them), since I usually got PA items with them. Then, thanks to some of the mess with the new store, my PC membership lapsed when they (or actually the auto-renew) tried to use an expired credit card, and I haven’t felt like spending an extra $30 to renew yet (DAZ did offer to let me renew my membership by purchasing a new membership then getting a refund for the extra $30 - unfortunately I was out of town without good internet service for a few weeks, and by the time I got back I felt like it had been too long to take them up on their offer). And finally, I used to get the occasional voucher for a gallery submission, which typically increased my purchases beyond the value of the voucher. But without the galleries, I don’t have as much incentive to buy, both because there is less incentive to make a new render for a chance at a voucher, and because I often saw something that I “had” to have while going through the galleries.
I’m not really complaining, I just realized that several issues with the new site have really affected my purchases here. I’m sure it’s just a temporary thing, and will probably change once I have the incentive to renew my PC membership. Maybe with the annual PC sale (next month??) I’ll renew, and spend a bit more, but I’m kind of saving up for when Carrara 8.5 is released.
I recently did a tally of all my daz purchases as well as rendo and RDNA and was floored at how much was been spent in the last year. Ever since then I’ve be very careful about my purchases because I noticed I still haven’t used a lot of the content I purchased. I’ve even declined to buy stuff during the PA sale that has been on my wishlist because I have a backlog of unused content and don’t want to add to it.
and tomorrow is Thursday? Oh my poor CC. 
