So.... March Madness?

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,240
    Sevrin said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    I think it would be next to impossible to like all the items in a pack of that size. Even if it follows a theme (which they don't all do). 

    I consider myself sold on a bundle if I really like the main char and at least 3 items from the hair and clothing items. Everything else is a bonus.

    Edit:

    Anyone else feeling like the last 2 days newly mad items are not as attractive as the other items ? :))

    Maybe it's just coincidence with my taste but I think any other 2 days I could have found 2 items that I liked and bought for the 20% additional discount for the next pro bundle. This weekend's newly mad items though just don't do anything for me.

    Yeah, this weekend I'd just be buying stuff to buy stuff.   Saved more than daylight this weekend.

    Well, it wasn't all bad. I used the sale prices together with a 25% off DAZ FaceBook coupon to clear much of my wishlist

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,242

    Return of Day One PC+ $2.20 items was great fun! Picked up a few things I missed first time around, and the price came down a bit with 2+ items in cart.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,839
    Sevrin said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    I think it would be next to impossible to like all the items in a pack of that size. Even if it follows a theme (which they don't all do). 

    I consider myself sold on a bundle if I really like the main char and at least 3 items from the hair and clothing items. Everything else is a bonus.

    Edit:

    Anyone else feeling like the last 2 days newly mad items are not as attractive as the other items ? :))

    Maybe it's just coincidence with my taste but I think any other 2 days I could have found 2 items that I liked and bought for the 20% additional discount for the next pro bundle. This weekend's newly mad items though just don't do anything for me.

    Yeah, this weekend I'd just be buying stuff to buy stuff.   Saved more than daylight this weekend.

    Well, it wasn't all bad. I used the sale prices together with a 25% off DAZ FaceBook coupon to clear much of my wishlist

    ..hmm went to their page, didn't see it .

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,240
    kyoto kid said:
    Sevrin said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    I think it would be next to impossible to like all the items in a pack of that size. Even if it follows a theme (which they don't all do). 

    I consider myself sold on a bundle if I really like the main char and at least 3 items from the hair and clothing items. Everything else is a bonus.

    Edit:

    Anyone else feeling like the last 2 days newly mad items are not as attractive as the other items ? :))

    Maybe it's just coincidence with my taste but I think any other 2 days I could have found 2 items that I liked and bought for the 20% additional discount for the next pro bundle. This weekend's newly mad items though just don't do anything for me.

    Yeah, this weekend I'd just be buying stuff to buy stuff.   Saved more than daylight this weekend.

    Well, it wasn't all bad. I used the sale prices together with a 25% off DAZ FaceBook coupon to clear much of my wishlist

    ..hmm went to their page, didn't see it .

    They are not on the DAZ Facebook page. They are in ads that appear at various times when you open your own FaceBook page..

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,014
    kyoto kid said:
    Sevrin said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    I think it would be next to impossible to like all the items in a pack of that size. Even if it follows a theme (which they don't all do). 

    I consider myself sold on a bundle if I really like the main char and at least 3 items from the hair and clothing items. Everything else is a bonus.

    Edit:

    Anyone else feeling like the last 2 days newly mad items are not as attractive as the other items ? :))

    Maybe it's just coincidence with my taste but I think any other 2 days I could have found 2 items that I liked and bought for the 20% additional discount for the next pro bundle. This weekend's newly mad items though just don't do anything for me.

    Yeah, this weekend I'd just be buying stuff to buy stuff.   Saved more than daylight this weekend.

    Well, it wasn't all bad. I used the sale prices together with a 25% off DAZ FaceBook coupon to clear much of my wishlist

    ..hmm went to their page, didn't see it .

    They are not on the DAZ Facebook page. They are in ads that appear at various times when you open your own FaceBook page..

    that explains a lot, I use Fluff busters Facebook purity wink

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,237
    Taoz said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    Yes, but people buy them anyway to save some bugs on those things in the bundle they want.  Which means some products sell more copies than they normally would, at the expense of other products.

     

    Well, when there's 7 or 8 items in a pro-bundle, and with discounts, the pro bndle drops price to about $34, then that basically means there need to be only 3 or 4 items in that bundle that someone really wants, to make the bundle more cost efficient than buying them seperately. And sure, Daz is aware of that. I'm sure they keep metrics of what add-ons people buy with the bundle. When many people buy texture add-on X which happens to go with pro-bundle component Y, then they can easily guess that component Y must be more interesting than Component Z for which few people bought the texture add-on. So the entire cart composition gives more information than you'd guess. It's one of the reasons why pro-bundles always come with those additional discounts for buying multiple add-ons. Even when you specifically buy add-ons that aren't texture add-ons for outfits within the bundle (which are generally the cheapest add-ons!), that tells Daz that people like the figure and most probably the variations to the figure or the included hairs as well, but aren't sold on the outfits.

    Ofcourse, Daz hopes people will like everything included in the bundle. But accomplishing that would be wishful thinking. However, assembling a pro-bundle that has at least four interesting items for most potential customers is fairly managable. At that point, people will start to think "I get those four items I like at a normal price, and then get a load of stuff which I may or may not use thrown in for free. Well, better get it for free now than pay for it later when I find I do need it.".

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,264
    Drip said:
    Taoz said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    Yes, but people buy them anyway to save some bugs on those things in the bundle they want.  Which means some products sell more copies than they normally would, at the expense of other products.

     

    Well, when there's 7 or 8 items in a pro-bundle, and with discounts, the pro bndle drops price to about $34, then that basically means there need to be only 3 or 4 items in that bundle that someone really wants, to make the bundle more cost efficient than buying them seperately. And sure, Daz is aware of that. I'm sure they keep metrics of what add-ons people buy with the bundle. When many people buy texture add-on X which happens to go with pro-bundle component Y, then they can easily guess that component Y must be more interesting than Component Z for which few people bought the texture add-on. So the entire cart composition gives more information than you'd guess. It's one of the reasons why pro-bundles always come with those additional discounts for buying multiple add-ons. Even when you specifically buy add-ons that aren't texture add-ons for outfits within the bundle (which are generally the cheapest add-ons!), that tells Daz that people like the figure and most probably the variations to the figure or the included hairs as well, but aren't sold on the outfits.

    Ofcourse, Daz hopes people will like everything included in the bundle. But accomplishing that would be wishful thinking. However, assembling a pro-bundle that has at least four interesting items for most potential customers is fairly managable. At that point, people will start to think "I get those four items I like at a normal price, and then get a load of stuff which I may or may not use thrown in for free. Well, better get it for free now than pay for it later when I find I do need it.".

    Exactly.  With the heavy discounts that are usually given to Pro Bundles on release, coupled with the fact that the Daz base characters are usually quite a bit more expensive than a standalone character from a PA, the thing that I always find strange is that so many people buy just the figure on initial release..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,839

    ...yeah but when the bundle is primarily skimpwear, fantasy, and horror, the only item of value in my book is the base figure. I generally wait a bit as often times, a base figure ends up in some sale (I've even seen them end up in Fastgrab once in a while), and as it is no longer a "New Release" by then, you can also use your PC coupon. I've paid less than 10$ sometimes.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133
    edited March 2020

    Personally, I still don't see what is so great about Daz base figures. In almost every case, I like the PA characters better and often those characters don't even need the base or actually look better without it... An exception is Toon or stylized characters that are different from the usual Daz adult characters that are often PA created anyway.

    Post edited by Wonderland on
  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,242

     In fairness, V8 bundle is a nice bundle. Will get to it eventually, maybe.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,839

    Personally, I still don't see what is so great about Daz base figures. In almost every case, I like the PA characters better and often those characters don't even need the base or actually look better without it... An exception is Toon or stylized characters that are different from the usual Daz adult characters that are often PA created anyway.

    ...there are a few which specify a certain figure like Sara (Teen Jane 8), Joi (Rynne 8) or Emy (Teen Raven 8)

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,168
    Cybersox said:
    Drip said:
    Taoz said:
    Taoz said:
    kyoto kid said:
    scorpio said:
    Torquinox said:

    @Cybersox I'm not sure why, but I don't have either V8 or M8 Pro Bundle.

    Same here, I don't think I have ever been interested in picking them up, I have the bases so probably choose a different bundle if picking one as a free item.

    ...I rarely if ever purchase Pro Bundles because they often have content I'd never use.

    I used to buy them all but don't anymore for the same reason.  By buying them you also support the products in them you don't want, so they think you want more of them. 

    I'm pretty sure they're aware that not everyone likes everything in a pro pack.

    Yes, but people buy them anyway to save some bugs on those things in the bundle they want.  Which means some products sell more copies than they normally would, at the expense of other products.

     

    Well, when there's 7 or 8 items in a pro-bundle, and with discounts, the pro bndle drops price to about $34, then that basically means there need to be only 3 or 4 items in that bundle that someone really wants, to make the bundle more cost efficient than buying them seperately. And sure, Daz is aware of that. I'm sure they keep metrics of what add-ons people buy with the bundle. When many people buy texture add-on X which happens to go with pro-bundle component Y, then they can easily guess that component Y must be more interesting than Component Z for which few people bought the texture add-on. So the entire cart composition gives more information than you'd guess. It's one of the reasons why pro-bundles always come with those additional discounts for buying multiple add-ons. Even when you specifically buy add-ons that aren't texture add-ons for outfits within the bundle (which are generally the cheapest add-ons!), that tells Daz that people like the figure and most probably the variations to the figure or the included hairs as well, but aren't sold on the outfits.

    Ofcourse, Daz hopes people will like everything included in the bundle. But accomplishing that would be wishful thinking. However, assembling a pro-bundle that has at least four interesting items for most potential customers is fairly managable. At that point, people will start to think "I get those four items I like at a normal price, and then get a load of stuff which I may or may not use thrown in for free. Well, better get it for free now than pay for it later when I find I do need it.".

    Exactly.  With the heavy discounts that are usually given to Pro Bundles on release, coupled with the fact that the Daz base characters are usually quite a bit more expensive than a standalone character from a PA, the thing that I always find strange is that so many people buy just the figure on initial release..

     

    Personally, I still don't see what is so great about Daz base figures. In almost every case, I like the PA characters better and often those characters don't even need the base or actually look better without it... An exception is Toon or stylized characters that are different from the usual Daz adult characters that are often PA created anyway.

    One thing you can hope for is that Daz and PAs include full body morphs for Daz base characters, so clothiing fits their shape. You will usually see them listed as supported shapes. 

  • DarkSpartanDarkSpartan Posts: 1,096
    barbult said:
     

    One thing you can hope for is that Daz and PAs include full body morphs for Daz base characters, so clothiing fits their shape. You will usually see them listed as supported shapes. 

    Autofollow is a wondrous thing, along with adjustment morphs. I rarely use the bases anyway... Gets in the way of building new stuff.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    it appears to be white type on a light orange background

    with my browser zoomed to 200%  cant quite make out what its trying to say

     

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    It's funny but ever since I think the second day of MM, In take a look at the new offers for like 10 minutes and then wait 12 hours or so until possible flash sales would appear to actually start looking in detail and considering to buy something.

    I do this mostly because I feel the MM offers by themselves are rarely good enough to consider alone.

    Anyone else doing this?

    I'm a great believer in 'there is always another sale'.

    12 hours - well the 12 is good, but im more of a week or month guy. wink

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,247

    I just want to say that there have been some flash sales in this years March Madness that let me save a TON on things I've wanted for a while including some once-in-a-lifetime-cheap bundles and I'm very happy with the way the sale has played out so far. Just wanted to pass that on.  Of course that played out lucky for me that it was the stuff I wanted / needed and it may not be the case foer everyone but I've stated "meh" about prior sales so it's only fair to say "Great!" now,

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057
    edited March 2020

    Oh joy, there are facebook coupons now?  I'm one of those luddites that avoids Facebook.  Not big on sharing intimate details on the internet, that's an interesting way to make you more of a target for bad actors.  Not to mention all of that metadata sharing...

    Anyways, still leaning more to 'Meh-ness" than "Madness."  The 72 hour long 4 hour sale was one for the history books though!  Not the sale itself, just that it went on for so long...

    The 50% off flash coupon today did get me to move on a couple of things, but I wouldn't say I felt like I got a screamin' deal, just a pretty good one.  I miss MM 2017...

    Post edited by tj_1ca9500b on
  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,313

      I'm one of those luddites that avoids Facebook.

    Well, things have come full circle, and Facebook is mostly Luddites, now.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,755

    those buy up to 4 items and get 50% off are really good if you stack with stuff that is already discounted a lot. 

     

  • alex86firealex86fire Posts: 1,130

    Damn, I'm getting very low on my store credit.

    I hope we get a good gift card offer before the new Pro Bundle pops up.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,839
    edited March 2020
    daveso said:

    those buy up to 4 items and get 50% off are really good if you stack with stuff that is already discounted a lot. 

     

    ....yeah got several rather speedy items off my wishlist all for 16$ and change total because they already had a discount.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • DripDrip Posts: 1,237
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah but when the bundle is primarily skimpwear, fantasy, and horror, the only item of value in my book is the base figure. I generally wait a bit as often times, a base figure ends up in some sale (I've even seen them end up in Fastgrab once in a while), and as it is no longer a "New Release" by then, you can also use your PC coupon. I've paid less than 10$ sometimes.

    And the hairs! Some bundles come with quite versatile hair styles. When I fall for some offer to "pick an old bundle", I usually first look what hairs they have. Also helps that by that time, the gallery usually has several examples avalable. For some reason, the regular hair promos are quite incomplete, using similar morphs over and over, showing the hair from only two or three angles, etcetera. It's when people start to actually use the hairs, that renders appear with more angles, odd combinations of morphs and alternative shaders, and really show the potential of the product.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,133

    For me this March Madness has been the best in years, with lots of stacking discounts. Yesterday my cart was higher than I planned but I remembered I had taken a screenshot of a Daz coupon that was on Instagram (on one of my accounts NOT related to 3D art strangely) and tt still worked and saved saved me enough to not cull my cart. laugh

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175

    I haven't really been that interested in much of the new stuff that's come out so far, but I've been grabbing older things from my wishlist and fastgrab where I can.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,839
    Drip said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah but when the bundle is primarily skimpwear, fantasy, and horror, the only item of value in my book is the base figure. I generally wait a bit as often times, a base figure ends up in some sale (I've even seen them end up in Fastgrab once in a while), and as it is no longer a "New Release" by then, you can also use your PC coupon. I've paid less than 10$ sometimes.

    And the hairs! Some bundles come with quite versatile hair styles. When I fall for some offer to "pick an old bundle", I usually first look what hairs they have. Also helps that by that time, the gallery usually has several examples avalable. For some reason, the regular hair promos are quite incomplete, using similar morphs over and over, showing the hair from only two or three angles, etcetera. It's when people start to actually use the hairs, that renders appear with more angles, odd combinations of morphs and alternative shaders, and really show the potential of the product.

    ..yeah but the cost for the basic figure and the hair is still less than the bundle.

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,380
    Torquinox said:

    Return of Day One PC+ $2.20 items was great fun! Picked up a few things I missed first time around, and the price came down a bit with 2+ items in cart.

    Could we please have a thread here to repost DAZ facebook coupons.... many people don't use facebook.

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,380

    Oh joy, there are facebook coupons now?  I'm one of those luddites that avoids Facebook.  Not big on sharing intimate details on the internet, that's an interesting way to make you more of a target for bad actors.  Not to mention all of that metadata sharing...

    Anyways, still leaning more to 'Meh-ness" than "Madness."  The 72 hour long 4 hour sale was one for the history books though!  Not the sale itself, just that it went on for so long...

    The 50% off flash coupon today did get me to move on a couple of things, but I wouldn't say I felt like I got a screamin' deal, just a pretty good one.  I miss MM 2017...

    The 72 hour long 4 hour sale was one for the history books though!  Not the sale itself, just that it went on for so long...

     

    Yes, DAZ time...... sometimes like taking a dive into a black hole..... love it though.... :)

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,895
    Torquinox said:

    Return of Day One PC+ $2.20 items was great fun! Picked up a few things I missed first time around, and the price came down a bit with 2+ items in cart.

    Could we please have a thread here to repost DAZ facebook coupons.... many people don't use facebook.

    and the codes are there to reward those who do - it's a quid pro quo. (And I don't use Facebook either, so I miss the codes too.)

  • alex86firealex86fire Posts: 1,130
    Torquinox said:

    Return of Day One PC+ $2.20 items was great fun! Picked up a few things I missed first time around, and the price came down a bit with 2+ items in cart.

    Could we please have a thread here to repost DAZ facebook coupons.... many people don't use facebook.

    and the codes are there to reward those who do - it's a quid pro quo. (And I don't use Facebook either, so I miss the codes too.)

    I don't get it though. Why is Daz rewarding people who use facebook? Do they have a deal or something. I've never seen a coupon for the people on their forum but they are rewarding people who use another application that has nothing to do with the 3d world?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,895
    Torquinox said:

    Return of Day One PC+ $2.20 items was great fun! Picked up a few things I missed first time around, and the price came down a bit with 2+ items in cart.

    Could we please have a thread here to repost DAZ facebook coupons.... many people don't use facebook.

    and the codes are there to reward those who do - it's a quid pro quo. (And I don't use Facebook either, so I miss the codes too.)

    I don't get it though. Why is Daz rewarding people who use facebook? Do they have a deal or something. I've never seen a coupon for the people on their forum but they are rewarding people who use another application that has nothing to do with the 3d world?

    I would think it's to get more traffic to the Facebook page to increase thelikelihood of new users falling into their web.

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