Searching (again) for a certain dress

mavante

I am trying, and failing, to find this dress (image attached) that I saw in a promo on another vendor site (for a lights set), but which is uncredited—which is so often the case.

There are several specific features I've hoped to find in a long dress for some time:

• Strapless
• The breast cups are pointed, not rounded
• There is a thigh slit, and it has lace trim on the opening

I have searched Daz and "that other" vendor site where the promo is with every search term I can dream up: evening gown/dress, cocktail gown/dress, strapless, thigh split, and a number of others that I have lost track of.  If you know what it is and know where to find it, I would appreciate your help.

That's the material (no pun intended) part of this post. The rest is gratuitous editorial and can be ignored:

I am constantly amazed at how downright difficult it can be (or is made) to find products used in promos to promote other products, and with no attribution. It's just stunning to me that this practice is so widespread, and apparently is tolerated, or maybe even encouraged. I don't know how or why any PA stands by and lets it go. Maybe it's written into the Daz agreements that this not only is allowed, but is required to be allowed. I don't know. I've never seen them.

Given that cross-marketing is one of the most effective types of marketing that exists or ever has existed, I personally think this wholesale non-credit, non-attribution practice must have some kind of negative impact on potential sales. I know for a fact that I have often just flat-out given up after a while on trying to find something I have seen in a promo and want to buy, and settled on something else, because I don't have the time to invest.

It seems to me that giving credit in a promo for any other products used in that promo not only should be "best practice," but is a professional courtesy that should be extended without exception. 

FSMCDesigns

this dress https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/dforce-mystic-dress-for-genesis-8-females/128764

witth this texture set https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/muse-for-dforce-mystic-dress-g8f/128817/

Why would a PA actively promote another PAs product? this is a very small market and the ROI is extremely small. Personally I don't look for what I see in promos, I see things from going thru the stores and actually looking at the products for sale, then again.

WendyLuvsCatz

NM got answer

mavante

FSMCDesigns said:

this dress https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/dforce-mystic-dress-for-genesis-8-females/128764

witth this texture set https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/muse-for-dforce-mystic-dress-g8f/128817/

Thank you very much. I don't know how you do it, but, yes, that clearly is it.

FSMCDesigns said:

Why would a PA actively promote another PAs product? this is a very small market and the ROI is extremely small.

Well, as I said, it was purely unsolicited opinion. It is at least somewhat informed opinion, given that I spent decades doing advertising and marketing, but it's still opinion. Maybe the ROI would increase on average for PAs if there were attribution for use of other PAs' work in promos.

But that is only opinion, too, because no market testing has ever been done, at least that I know of. There also are very few, if any, comparable types of markets that I can think of for analogy. But I can pretty much guarantee that if Mattel ever used a bunch of Hasbro's G.I. Joes in packaging or promotion to sell a toy fort or tank, without permission, a lot of well-tailored lawyers would have a grand opportunity to get new Porsches.

I know it's a different scale, but analogies are difficult. I just believe that a cooperative effort, with correct mutual attribution, would be beneficial.

Leana

mavante said:

But I can pretty much guarantee that if Mattel ever used a bunch of Hasbro's G.I. Joes in packaging or promotion to sell a toy fort or tank, without permission, a lot of well-tailored lawyers would have a grand opportunity to get new Porsches.

Except that vendors using content by other PAs in their promos are not using it without premission, they bought a license to use it which allows commercial use, and doesn't require attribution. So it's not the same situation at all.