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  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,229
    edited August 2021

    margrave said:

    Every sale clearly says "Cannot be used to re-purchase a previously owned item at a lower price," which to me sounds exactly like what you're suggesting.

    ... all I´m saying is, you can ask.

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    bytescapes said:

    I confess that my first reaction on seeing the sale banner was "Please God, make it stop." The phrase "There's always another sale" has started to sound rather menacing.

    But I think that's more about me than about DAZ, and there is nothing stopping me from taking a step back and not feeling that I have to snap up every bargain that is offered. I'm sure the sale will be great, with many excellent products and great deals. Enjoy, everyone.

     It's easy to contend with.

    ... Dont look at the sales page.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,914
    edited August 2021

    Wonderland said:

    The only things I buy lately are $1.99 “clearance” or PC for a day items which I don’t actually need at all but it’s hard to pass those up. Or something that’s rarely on sale that I’ve wanted for a while at 70% off or more or something completely different from everything I already own. I already have soooo much content that DS is crawling slow. Sorry PAs but please know I already own most of what’s in your stores! Also, I really don’t like the new shaders on G8.1 so that has put a big stop to my buying new characters (which I REALLY don’t need anyway!) 

    The problem I think is that content gets so repetitive. How many Egyptian/pirate stuff can one use? I know it must be hard for PAs to come up with new concepts, create trends rather than follow them, and with Covid there are less trends even to follow, but I’d really like to see something NEW! I know I could design some really cool stuff but I don’t know how to model them and maybe my ideas would be hard to do, but I’m really hoping some newer creative concepts enter into the Daz store because my library is already over saturated with repetitive content.

    ...same feelings here about G8.1 particularly since I am still using 4.12 for scene building and 4.10 for rendering (as I have a pre-RTX GPU which ruins slower on 4.12 because the version of Iray it has is optimised for RTX instead of older cards).

    As to repetitive content, really, how many Japanese schoolgirl outfits do we really need, particularly for the same Genesis generation?  I've pretty much limited my purchases to primarily environment sets, props, resource content, and some G8 clothing styles that never were available for older generation figures (I have the G8 to G3 clothing converter script). 

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,342

    I have been putting things on wishlist looking forward to the PA sale and then the PC+ sale, but budgets hit and no offers for a gift card that I have seen recently... means more wishlisting. I am buying PC+ items and selected PA items that will help me work better. DAZ a gift card sale would be appreciated.

    (And a recent User reset caused my Daz database to be uninstalled. All 3.9TB of it. I just got Gen 8 and 8.1 Core characters loaded, and some of other support products loaded in the last three days. One positive, my upload times for G8.1M and F drastically reduced.) It makes me hesitant to buy more characters and stuff now.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,836
    edited October 2021

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137

    If you got the orange banner, the Oni bundle is $15 in the cart and you get a $15 coupon on Monday for a Daz O so it’s basically free asssuming you find something you actually want on Monday and it’s not a choice of limited old products...

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,836
    edited October 2021

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  • daveso-confused said:

    what to do with an Oni Warrior? 

    PUT'IM IN THE SCUPPERS WITH A HOSEPIPE ON'IM.

    /ERr-LY IN THE MORNIN'


    Mostly working in Genesis 3 lately, not sure why.
    dForce everything new is one reason, I guess. Plus, full shoulder coverage garments not so exciting.

    Discounted Genesis 3 stuff is okay.

    /Also, robots.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,276
    edited September 2021

    Wonderland said:

    If you got the orange banner, the Oni bundle is $15 in the cart and you get a $15 coupon on Monday for a Daz O so it’s basically free asssuming you find something you actually want on Monday and it’s not a choice of limited old products...

    The ad states that thcoupon is for any DAZ Original; so, it should apply to all DAZ Originals and not just a limited selection of older ones.

    And as Daveso said with the banner you can get the bundle cost down to $10 with 2 new releases (one of which is a debut  release) in your cart.

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 3,499

    The Blurst of Times said:

    daveso-confused said:

    what to do with an Oni Warrior? 

    PUT'IM IN THE SCUPPERS WITH A HOSEPIPE ON'IM.

    /ERr-LY IN THE MORNIN'


    Mostly working in Genesis 3 lately, not sure why.
    dForce everything new is one reason, I guess. Plus, full shoulder coverage garments not so exciting.

    Discounted Genesis 3 stuff is okay.

    /Also, robots.

    laughlaugh 

  • BlueFingersBlueFingers Posts: 904
    edited September 2021

    Question for you Daz veterans out there. I thought the end year sale was pretty good, March Madness was alright, PC+ sale was amazing, but up till now I am really not too impressed with the PA sale. Is this pretty typical?

    Sure were only in it for a couple of days, but I didn't pick up anything of note, while with the previous sales I would already be kind if worried how fast I was spending in regard to the length of the month.

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  • CHWTCHWT Posts: 1,187

    Question for you Daz veterans out there. I thought the end year sale was pretty good, March Madness was alright, PC+ sale was amazing, but up till now I am really not too impressed with the PA sale. Is this pretty typical?

    Sure were only in it for a couple of days, but I didn't pick up anything of note, while with the previous sales I would already be kind if worried how fast I was spending in regard to the lenght of the month.

    There is always another sale, and that's true. Whenever you want to buy something just tell yourself you can buy it at 1.99 (and heck there was a 0.99 sale some days ago)... though most of the time you can't fight the urge Lol. (Oh yes congrats on your render being featured!)
  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    BlueFingers said:

    Question for you Daz veterans out there. I thought the end year sale was pretty good, March Madness was alright, PC+ sale was amazing, but up till now I am really not too impressed with the PA sale. Is this pretty typical?

    Sure were only in it for a couple of days, but I didn't pick up anything of note, while with the previous sales I would already be kind if worried how fast I was spending in regard to the length of the month.

    From my limited experience and for my personal shopping habits the PA sale is the least attractive sale within a year. The current one is either starting really, really, really slow... or following the changed sale strategy that seems to be in place for a while now...

    The $ 0.99 sales (flash and blink and whatever...) aren't really a part of the PA sale, as some sales like that might pop up everywhen during a year...

    My experience... not chiseled in stone...

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,757

    I've been lazy since buying a new 2TB NVME SSD (a hidden cost of owning enough DAZ products so that DIM says I have over 6000 products) and don't even have DAZ and my content, reinstalled yet but I did buy this product:

    Oni Warrior Bundle | Daz 3D

    It cost only about $9 including tax after I got the discount & then added my monthly $6 coupon to that as well. And that's not even counting the $15 store credit I'll get Labor Day for having bought that bundle.

    I'm going to buy the NYC Bodega too. 

    I'm reserved a small amount of money beyond what I've already spend this month for really great bargains but those are harder to come by with all the content I've already bought.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,836
    edited October 2021

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for a whole NYC neighborhood. With the twwo tenement sets, we can now assemble a street with a cross-street and cover most camera angles for storytelling purposes.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    JOdel said:

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for a whole NYC neighborhood. With the twwo tenement sets, we can now assemble a street with a cross-street and cover most camera angles for storytelling purposes.

    Yeah, nice... too bad that I'd rather need a more rural New Mexico Small Town Setting... so even though the NYmodels are utterly tempting, they aren't on my shopping list and the New Orleans vistas that were on sale for $ 1.99 apiece recently neither... wink

    So up to now the sale hasn't tickled my fancy...

     

  • edited September 2021

    I only checked in today to see how much it would cost to get the so called Daily Freebie. (More than I am willing to pay)

    I find it telling that this thread only had 7 more comments since yesterday morning (I am 1 hour ahead of Daz time zone) but the Report Sales Issues thread has 59.

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,342

    daveso-confused said:

    memcneil70 said:

    I have been putting things on wishlist looking forward to the PA sale and then the PC+ sale, but budgets hit and no offers for a gift card that I have seen recently... means more wishlisting. I am buying PC+ items and selected PA items that will help me work better. DAZ a gift card sale would be appreciated.

    (And a recent User reset caused my Daz database to be uninstalled. All 3.9TB of it. I just got Gen 8 and 8.1 Core characters loaded, and some of other support products loaded in the last three days. One positive, my upload times for G8.1M and F drastically reduced.) It makes me hesitant to buy more characters and stuff now.

    I've read that it is actually the morphs and expressions that cause the loading time issues of the characters. There are procedures to solve that.  Here is one, but please do a search as there are a couple ways. 

    @daveso-confused Thank you for the link. I have seen folks mention this method, but it was hard for me to visualize it. The video did the trick.

    My initial times for G8.1F was 1.52.02 min and for G8.1M was 47.81 sec; after loading a careful selection of morphs and pose/expression sets, the times went up to G8.1F 3.37.88 min and for G8.1M to 1.42.78 min. I am going to add more, because I need the characters' skins for created characters. It is sad that we don't have young people yet in G8.1 (ie boys without beards baked into skins). So I have to load more G8 characters and not have access to the facial expressions of G8.1. But it is really easy to just not load pose sets that are duplicates of many others from some of the creators and I found I never used in the past.

    But my experience is influencing my purchasing of characters, morph sets, poses, and hairs. (I found I have quite a few short hair with a part and a slightly longer side on one side. And shaved side hairs.) I am looking for the unique, creative, thoughtful, and considerate of my resources products. 

    Still looking for a Gift Card Sale DAZ!

    Mary

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    I'm so irritated about missing the Celebration coupons because of the super short duration that I'm done with the PA sale -- at least for awhile

  • BlueFingers said:

    Question for you Daz veterans out there. I thought the end year sale was pretty good, March Madness was alright, PC+ sale was amazing, but up till now I am really not too impressed with the PA sale. Is this pretty typical?

    Sure were only in it for a couple of days, but I didn't pick up anything of note, while with the previous sales I would already be kind if worried how fast I was spending in regard to the length of the month.

    Last year was also my first PA sale and made the exact same question. Sadly, this is typical.

    PA sale is good if you usually buy on release date (debut/still new). So if you are of those that buy at only 30% new item discount for PA (non DO)  items, then this month you get better prices.

    But if like me (and many others) you mostly purchase from catalog, then this month can be actually worst as discount are lower than any average regular month featured artist discount.

    Now, at least i think that this time is about the same and not worst than last year. Becase both March Maddness and PC+Sale(both of them) were a LOT better last year than this one.

  • bytescapesbytescapes Posts: 1,905

    JOdel said:

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for a whole NYC neighborhood. With the twwo tenement sets, we can now assemble a street with a cross-street and cover most camera angles for storytelling purposes.

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for my NYC neighborhood. It's kind of eerie. I feel like I'm being stalked. I looked at one of the tenement models and thought "Holy crap, that's my girlfriend's building." It isn't ... quite ... but it's very close. I don't know who Aurilio is, but I'm pretty sure I've probably passed them on the street.

  • BlueFingersBlueFingers Posts: 904
    edited September 2021

    Wolfwood said:

    BlueFingers said:

    Question for you Daz veterans out there. I thought the end year sale was pretty good, March Madness was alright, PC+ sale was amazing, but up till now I am really not too impressed with the PA sale. Is this pretty typical?

    Sure were only in it for a couple of days, but I didn't pick up anything of note, while with the previous sales I would already be kind if worried how fast I was spending in regard to the length of the month.

    Last year was also my first PA sale and made the exact same question. Sadly, this is typical.

    PA sale is good if you usually buy on release date (debut/still new). So if you are of those that buy at only 30% new item discount for PA (non DO)  items, then this month you get better prices.

    But if like me (and many others) you mostly purchase from catalog, then this month can be actually worst as discount are lower than any average regular month featured artist discount.

    Now, at least i think that this time is about the same and not worst than last year. Becase both March Maddness and PC+Sale(both of them) were a LOT better last year than this one.

    Thanks, this is good to know. I share your buying habbit.

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,836
    edited October 2021

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137
    edited September 2021

    bytescapes said:

    JOdel said:

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for a whole NYC neighborhood. With the twwo tenement sets, we can now assemble a street with a cross-street and cover most camera angles for storytelling purposes.

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for my NYC neighborhood. It's kind of eerie. I feel like I'm being stalked. I looked at one of the tenement models and thought "Holy crap, that's my girlfriend's building." It isn't ... quite ... but it's very close. I don't know who Aurilio is, but I'm pretty sure I've probably passed them on the street.

    I wish they (or someone) would do upscale neighborhoods, Park Ave, Fifth Ave both the buildings and the sidewalk with the wall to the park, Central Park, the carousel, the little bridge over the lake... I guess Central Park would be hard, but maybe in sections with low res buildings or billboards of buildings in the background. Basically I’d like the sets of a typical Woody Allen movie lol.

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Today's 'freebie' only requires you to use $25 for something else.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,914
    edited September 2021

    JOdel said:

    Aurilio is gradually releasing the components for a whole NYC neighborhood. With the twwo tenement sets, we can now assemble a street with a cross-street and cover most camera angles for storytelling purposes.

    ...I have both Tenement sets and the Brownstones (as well as Stonemason's NYC Brownstones).

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,757

    I was frustrated today because I want the Mrs Chow Starter Bundle for $10 but you only get it for $10 if your buy an item released today. I don't want anything today. I would of bought the Mrs Chow Starter Bundle for $10 if I could of bought the Bodega today and got the discount but nope. It's OK, I'll buy the Bodega with the $15 store credit Monday I got for buying the Oni Warrior Bundle and leave Mrs Chow on the shelf for now.

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