2020 "There's Always Another Sale™" (Report sales errors here.)

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  • dracorndracorn Posts: 2,363

    The Shadow Qabbalah Bundle is no longer discounting correctly when combined with three Daz breeds and two PC+ For A Day items, along with the purple banner.  It jumped up about nine bucks from where it had originally been when I put all of this into my cart about 1 am Daz time.   It looks like it is at full price on the site.  Thanks.

    I'm seeing the same. The bundle no longer has the 30% new release discount.

    Same in my cart and on the sales page, it's at full price.
  • XelloszXellosz Posts: 855

    Okay here are the dogs, where are the cats?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Reported

     

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,631
    edited January 2020

    just a but odd people who straight away snatched up the PC for a day items got penalised for being too keen

    Actually, this is becoming closer to typical rather than odd.

    There has definitely been a greater degree of ad recycling, but that's understandable.  If it follows the pattern of most businesses, there are almost certainly far more newbies coming in than old-timers who've actually had the time to buyout a significant portion of the catalog. I get that, and understand why DAZ would chose to focus its advertising on that group.  

    On the other hand, the increasing lack of clarity, poor English and misleading phrasing in ads and other promotional text, promotions that abruptly change parameters without warning halfway through a day, and other store-based errors attributable to a lack of suffiecient pre-testing and text editing is more concerning.  Especially snce many reported propblems are no longer being fixed at all while the promotions containing them continue to run for days or even weeks, and the general default attitude seems to have increasingly become "let customer service handle it", thereby putting the onus on the customer's ability to spot the errors in the first place, their willingness to endure the help ticket submission gulag, and their financial ability to cover the difference in costs in the meantime.         

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    dracorn said:

    The Shadow Qabbalah Bundle is no longer discounting correctly when combined with three Daz breeds and two PC+ For A Day items, along with the purple banner.  It jumped up about nine bucks from where it had originally been when I put all of this into my cart about 1 am Daz time.   It looks like it is at full price on the site.  Thanks.

    I'm seeing the same. The bundle no longer has the 30% new release discount.

     

    Same in my cart and on the sales page, it's at full price.

    xhould be fixed now   refresh the page

     

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    I don't think 'PC for a day or maybe two, or maybe more' has the same ring to it :)

    If you can hum it, we'll try to pick it up on the second chorus.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,631
    edited January 2020
    I don't think 'PC for a day or maybe two, or maybe more' has the same ring to it :)

    If you can hum it, we'll try to pick it up on the second chorus.

    To the tune of Turkey In the Straw

    Oh...
    It says PC for a Day,
    But that ain't what it means,
    Though exactly what it do mean,
    T'aint no one knows it seems,
    Twixt the verbiage and disclaimers,
    It's a really sticky wicket,
    And if you can't understand it,
    Then file a customer service ticket!

    Look at this ad, what does it say?
    We've been trying to find out, the entire day!
    It ain't good writing and it's kind of sad,
    This DAZ-gum advertisement's just-a driving me mad!  
     

     

    lyrics copyright 2020 Cybersox Music

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  • AZDigitalArtistAZDigitalArtist Posts: 810
    edited January 2020
    Chohole said:
    dracorn said:

     

    xhould be fixed now   refresh the page

     

    Yep, thanks!

     

    If anyone hasn't taken advantage of the free hdri offer, those combine with today's discounts on the breeds.  I checked it out of curiosity.  Wish I had waited.

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  • bjoernb78bjoernb78 Posts: 155

    I'm now a half year on DAZ. So when is the next big "real" sale going to happen? The actual offer are *meh*.

  • We have memories of "March Madness" sales ;-)

     

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137
    bjoernb78 said:

    I'm now a half year on DAZ. So when is the next big "real" sale going to happen? The actual offer are *meh*.

    March Madness but that hasn't been as good as the PC sale or Christmas lately. Usually around 50-60% off products.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 13,033
    edited January 2020

    If you mean a big sale event which lasts for weeks like the PA or PC sale, then the next annual one is March Madness (which will be, as you can imagine, in March).

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Although it has been known to stretch an extra few days either (or both) ways, into late February or early April.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,559

    I'm probably waiting for something like March Madness, then. PC Sale was awesome! Better than Christmas, I think. I did not capitalize nearly enough on that. But as the thread name says... "There's always another sale!" laugh

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    bjoernb78 said:

    I'm now a half year on DAZ. So when is the next big "real" sale going to happen? The actual offer are *meh*.

    When I first started buying at Daz3d, there were three "event" sales: March Madness, PA Festival (September) and PC Anniversary (October). Even then, the various sales during December were really good, but a few years back, Daz3d had a holiday rewards offer that went the full month. They've modified the discount that goes with it, but the Holiday Rewards has become the fourth event sale.

    After three solid months of back-to-back event sales, getting back to normal isn't easy.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,631
    edited January 2020

    Same items in PC+ for a Day again.   Guess I'm returning more items to qulifiy for the discounts.  Oh, and yet another super-discounted Pro Bundle sale... I'm beginning to suspect that DAZ's marketing department may have died when the  building was swallowed in a customer service ticket induced sinkhole and have now been resureected as mindless zombies. 

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,687
    Cybersox said:

    Same items in PC+ for a Day again.   Guess I'm returning more items to qulifiy for the discounts.  Oh, and yet another super-discounted Pro Bundle sale... I'm beginning to suspect that DAZ's marketing department may have died when the  building was swallowed in a customer service ticket induced sinkhole and been now resureected as mindless zombies. 

    I wouldn't mind another pro bundle sale except that the cutoff date for qualifying bundles was moved earlier, not later, so there are even fewer bundles I might be interested in this time.

  • alex86firealex86fire Posts: 1,130

    I'm starting to think Daz wants to spite us.

    This is the third day for pc items for a day.

    More than this, a new discount offer related to buying those items....

    This is just crazy.

  • t2daht2dah Posts: 5

    Even though the pro bundle sale is limited to 2 items, The offer can be used more than once.

    Just bought 5 bundles fo $20 each

  • bjoernb78bjoernb78 Posts: 155

    I already have all Gen 8 Pro Bundles from that offer I was interested in. So I save those who are left up for the next "Buy the all new [Place name here] 8 Pro Bundle and get another Pro Bundle for free". I don't want to run out of available Pro Bundles until then. :D

  • AsariAsari Posts: 703
    I preferred the Christmas loyalty sale to the PA sale. If you combined it with the 30% off gift card offer for black Friday you could get 67% off new items at the end of the sales price which is quite something. If you can combine it with some other deals it could get even lower than that.

    In between there are some good sale events as well ... I remember one of the best sales this year was the build your own flash sale with items all over the store eligible. You could combine it with other discounts and end up with 85% off or something. This was outside the major sale events.

  • MunemanMuneman Posts: 221

    Just as an FYI for PC+ users, the DZFire Flash Sale works with the new PC+ item for Tengu Mokushiroku: Eternal. With it in the cart, you can get the two required products for it down to 88% off if you find a third DZFire item you want. 

     

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  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,862
    edited January 2020

    Wowsie... that's a tad bit more than I paid for the cyborg just yesterday, and could not buy the tengu one because both of them ended up too expensive (together with the pc+ item I bought). Dont' think I can be bothered with a ticket though, and it would feel wrong to DZFire to do that too. Still, it makes one wonder how the hell Daz thinks these days *Sighs*

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,631

    I'm starting to think Daz wants to spite us.

    This is the third day for pc items for a day.

    More than this, a new discount offer related to buying those items....

    This is just crazy.

    Or just lazy.  Half the problems as of late are more likely to be the result of rampant cut and pasting without any look at context than anything else. 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,957
    Muneman said:

    Just as an FYI for PC+ users, the DZFire Flash Sale works with the new PC+ item for Tengu Mokushiroku: Eternal. With it in the cart, you can get the two required products for it down to 88% off if you find a third DZFire item you want. 

     

    thats cool. thanks. I had 3 items in cart for the 70% off ..but this works even better.  I will buy a GC as well, and get another 20% off

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,559
    edited January 2020

    Good point, Muneman!

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  • vagansvagans Posts: 422
    The pro package deal is great, thanks! Is there a specific reason the 6 off 18 monthly coupon doesn't work for those?
  • Phoenix1966Phoenix1966 Posts: 1,920
    vagans said:
    The pro package deal is great, thanks! Is there a specific reason the 6 off 18 monthly coupon doesn't work for those?

    Because the 6 off 18 coupon is for PA items and these are Daz originals.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,451
    edited January 2020
    vagans said:
    The pro package deal is great, thanks! Is there a specific reason the 6 off 18 monthly coupon doesn't work for those?

    Because the 6 off 18 coupon is for PA items and these are Daz originals.

     

    Incorrect. The six off 18 (SAVE6) coupon also normally works on non-new DAZ Originals. Maybe in this case it has been excluded because of the already low sale price (similar to excluding its use onFast Grab items)

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,631
    edited January 2020
    vagans said:
    The pro package deal is great, thanks! Is there a specific reason the 6 off 18 monthly coupon doesn't work for those?

    Because the 6 off 18 coupon is for PA items and these are Daz originals.

     

    Incorrect. The six off 18 (SAVE6) coupon also normally works on non-new DAZ Originals. Maybe in this case it has been excluded because of the already low sale price (similar to excluding its use onFast Grab items)

    Either way, since the promotion is exclusively targeted at PC+ members, who ALL, obviously, get that coupon, and there isn't a specific disclaimer that PC+ coupons don't work, the coupons really should.be valid.  I already have all of the bundles, but if you submit a customer service ticket along with a screen grab of the promotion, I don't see how they could not agree to apply it after the fact.  It mIght take a while though, given that I'm still waiting on a ticket from last year to clear... 

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