What's a GIFT CARD? I don't get it.
Fauvist
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What are "gift cards" used for? Do you give them to someone as a gift? What's the discount on? I don't understand the whole concept.
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Gift card can be used by you or sent to someone else.
You can give one to yourself. They go to whatever e-mail you specify. So if there is a bargain on them, I'll buy one for myself just to get the free money.
When someone buys one, a code is sent to an email that the buyer specifies. That email/Daz Account can redeem the code for the amount of store credit the buyer sent them. The discount is on the amount the buyer pays. For example, you could pick up a $100 gift card for your friend. If you picked it up at 15% off, it would cost you $85 to give them the full hundred. And, since you can send them to any email you want, you can send it to yourself.
Probably 99% of them you buy for yourself to get the discount, but you can send it to whoever you want and they will know who sent it (at least they'll get whatever name you put in there. Santa Claus and Easter Bunny work ;) )
But if you send the gift card to somebody else - what do they do with it? They would have to be 3D artists to use it?
They would need to have an account here at daz3d.com, and they could turn that into store credit, and buy stuff from the store here.
Someone could buy you a giftcard as a birthday gift, for example, and you would be able to spend it in the store on whatever you want (mostly).
You don't understand the concept of gift cards?
The DAZ gift card can only be used on daz3d.com, so if they don't use DAZ and have no interest in 3D rendering, why would you get them a DAZ gift card?
It's like buying someone an iTunes Gift Card at a discount for someone who don't use iTunes and have no interest in using iTunes.
I understand the concept. If you buy a gift card for Amazon, anybody in the world can use it to buy almost anything in the world. And iTunes gift card can be used by anybody who listens to music, which is everybody. I don't know anybody "in person" who does 3D art or shops at DAZ. That's why it seems strange. I also don't understand if it's an actual card (an object), and how long you have to use the "card" before it expires.
It is as real as the content that you can buy with it. It's a virtual gift card that can then be converted into store credit to be used in the Daz Store. If you leave it as a gift card once purchased it lasts for a year, once added to an account and converted to store credit it works like money, it lasts until you have spent it all.
As the others are saying many people use Gift cards as a way to put their 3d spending money away when they get paid, or when Daz decide to run a discount offer on gift cards.
It's not an actual object, it's just a redemption code you can use either in an order during checkout or redeem to create store credit for future purchases.
If you redeem it (add to store credit) it last for ever (or as long as Daz3D exists!) - if you keep it unused it expires after a year.
ETA: I'm not a US citizen, so I have to pay for purchases through currency exchange, vulnerable to fluctuations in the rate from day to day. Like many in my position, I buy store credit in large-ish chunks when the exchange rate is good for me, or when there's a nice discount, then redeem it so Ii have store credit for use over the next few weeks (at a known rate, not an unpredictable one).
It's more of a gift code that you use in the DAZ 3D Store not a Gift Card you use at WalMart or where ever,
They are used all the time to render the prizes in render contests in the DAZ forums so they do often serve as gifts and not just a way to purchase 'virtual DAZ cash' of your own.
You know, if they had been called Discount Coupons my eyes wouldn't have glazed over everytime I saw Gift Card for the last 10 years here.
The difference with Amazon and iTunes is only because Amazon and Apple are so big. You can buy almost anything with an Amazon gift card because Amazon sell almost anything. On the other hand, I listen to a lot of music but an iTunes gift card would be useless to me because I don't have an iTunes account. I buy my music on CDs or as Amazon downloads.
With Daz there is no physical card, it's just an e-mail. Once you have bought it you have a year to spend the store credit. I mostly only buy them when there is a discount offer, although it might be worth investing in one before Brexit in case our currency plummets like some people are predicting.
Hasn't it plummetted enough already? Maybe I should just buy a thousand-dollar GC now!
Gift cards expire if not converted to Store Credit. Store Credit does not expire.
Well basically you lend your money to DAZ
I had never purchased a gift card till recently. There was a deal that with a new item purchase you got 17% off a GC over $200. Then I saw I could combine with that of a banner item deal for get extra off the GC bringing it to 25% off. Knowing I would spend over $200 in the coming months and having the funds to make a big purchase, I went ahead and got a $200 gc for $150 which gave me $50 of free product.
the downside was once I redeemed the CG and had the $200 in my DAZ account, it went faster than I would have liked, LOL.
Effectively. It works like this:
I buy a gift card for $200 at 15% off and give Daz $170. It's all theirs, they don't need to split it with a PA.
I redeem the gift card code they send me and now have $200 of store credit to use on anything I want. I proceed to purchase a PA item for $20 and pay for it from my store credit.
Daz deducts $20 from my store credit, books $10 for themselves, and issues a payment of $10 to the PA.
But effectively, I really spent $17 real money and the PA got his or her $10 share; Daz, because of the previous discount, is really only getting $7 on the transaction - plus the use of the whole $170 until such time as I use it all. And no, I don't know how they do the internal bookkeeping on this, but this is the view from outside the system.
I'd say it's a fair deal for the customer to be honest, if you have the money. But as @FSMCDesigns pointed out, it's a dangerous game. I know myself too well to walk down that road
My brother, who does no 3D rendering, bought me gift cards for gifts since he knows I would use it... likewise, I have bought women gifts like perfume and jewelry which I do not wear.
One other thing is that sales on gift cards usually precede either a core figure release or a major sale. If you're pretty sure there's either on the way and that you're going to spend money on it, its nice to get that little extra off. Even if you still don't want the credit, think of the sale like a change in the wind. Thar' be a spendin' storm a'comin'...
Well, yes. That's the dark side - you've already spent the money and now you have store credit . . . and that new item is just sitting there and you don't do that kind of art . . . but - but only $11.95 out of the credit - yeah, let's get it.
It takes will power to not blow the credit on pretty-prettys you don't really need.
Predictable already?
Store credit going down fast is something I have noticed. I try not to spend it too fast but there is always that feeling that you're not spending real money so why not buy that thing? I wonder if Daz have looked into the psychology of this and that's why they do these sales? I'm sure gift card discounts used to be fairly rare, and the discounts used to be less.
They aren't discount coupons because they are usually worth exactly what you pay for them unless there is a sale on them. They are called gift cards because you are loading them up with cash that can be spent at DAZ. You can gift them to yourself or others who use DAZ products. I know it's not likely that most of us know other people in person who use DAZ products so most people use them like pre paid debit cards for DAZ. However, if you have friends and family who wanted to buy you a gift for a birthday or something, you could give them a link to the gift card purchase page and they could buy you DAZ gift cards even if there doesn't happen to be a discount sale for them.
Heh... I kinda thought we might get a core figure last week, then I was almost certain we'd get one this week. It's always fun to be wrong.
I'd say I make 95% of my purchase with credit bought with gift cards. It just makes more sense to me. If you buy credit at a discount via a Gift Card sale then it actually comes out to be cheaper when you buy something. HOWEVER (and this is a big however) you have to be a lot more disciplined that way. Because when you have store credit just sitting there it's WAY more tempting (at least to me) to spend it.
Lol me too. It took me a while to figure out the benefit of purchasing them.
I'm usually buying a gift card and turn it to store credit, so I have to deal with conversion fee not as often. It is also a bit safer, and I can control my budget through the Store Credit. I use gift card/store credit even if there's no gift card sale, but who am I to say no to a discount?