Infinite Insanity - There's ALWAYS Another Sale! (Daily Sale Talk)

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  • The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    I've just had a look and the offer is in my messages under the 'Exclusive Offers' tab, so if an adblocker has stopped you seeing it then you should find this one in your messages too.

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,923

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

    Ouch, I would definitely contact Support and get some help with that. I know I've accidentally X'd out and I'd be in a real pickle if that didn't work in My Account! 

  • The emailed order confirmations always show what you actually spend on each item. But if you look at the invoice stored online, you're right its confusing. I always print and save my emailed order confirmations as PDFs.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970

    The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    I've just had a look and the offer is in my messages under the 'Exclusive Offers' tab, so if an adblocker has stopped you seeing it then you should find this one in your messages too.

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

    That's weird. Yours looks different than mine:

    Where do you find the "Messages"?

  • The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    I've just had a look and the offer is in my messages under the 'Exclusive Offers' tab, so if an adblocker has stopped you seeing it then you should find this one in your messages too.

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

    That's weird. Yours looks different than mine:

    Where do you find the "Messages"?

    If you click on the Mesages icon in your pic above (between Gallery and Platinum Club), you should see the screen that I showed you.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,682

    The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    I've just had a look and the offer is in my messages under the 'Exclusive Offers' tab, so if an adblocker has stopped you seeing it then you should find this one in your messages too.

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

    That's weird. Yours looks different than mine:

    Where do you find the "Messages"?

    Click on the envelope icon that says "Messages"

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970

    The banner just begins 'As a significant participant in this year's PA festival, we want to offer you our thanks.... etc, etc'. I didn't mention it for two reasons, firstly because it makes me uneasy mentioning that I got an offer based on what I've spent, because I know there's a good chance that some of the people who didn't get the offer didn't spend much because they weren't in a position to - it's not nice being broke and then finding out that you're missing out twice because of it. Secondly, I feel uncomfortable with the significance of my participation as this just says to me that I must have spent a sight more than I intended to, despite trying to keep costs down. And yes, I took advantage of the offer anyway and my participation just got $26 more significant because of it. *Sigh...

    Yeah, it's always nice to see things you can't get, and not being able to afford to buy much of anything (I've only spent $20.37 during the PA sale so far - and have had to pass on quite a few things I'd like due to finances) and then knowing that you miss out on a discount you could really use and they give that discount to people who seam to need the least. ...awesome.

    If I sound a bit bitter ...I am. lol :P Nah, really I'm ok with it - I mean, being rewarded for being a supporter of the PAs is a nice thing. I don't begrudge you guys that nice discount. :)  I'm really glad there are people who are able to get more and support the PAs more. I know a lot of them rely on that to be able to help pay the bills, so it's a great thing! And the more the PAs make the more likely they are to keep creating really nice products for us! :) 

     

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970

    The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    I've just had a look and the offer is in my messages under the 'Exclusive Offers' tab, so if an adblocker has stopped you seeing it then you should find this one in your messages too.

    You're talking about this link? The strange thing is these links have never worked for me, ever. Since I've been a member. I know i've checked in the past when I had an orange banner and then closed it and wanted to see what it said again, I went here and it's never worked for me. The inbox and newsletter links don't work either, never have.

    That's weird. Yours looks different than mine:

    Where do you find the "Messages"?

    Click on the envelope icon that says "Messages"

    /DOH! /facepalm *blushes from extreme embarrassment* lol

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    Adblockers don't affect the orange banners.

     

    A randomly selected pool of people receiving offers based on thanks for purchases would be unbelievably unfair and bad design. All of the banners I've received have been based on specific criteria and for example when there was the blowup over the Tween Ryan banner having an issue, everyone involved that met the criteria did eventually get one.

    No idea what the criteria for this one was but I imagine there was a specific trigger of purchasing for it.

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    lx said:

    It does that all the time when items first go up.

     

    The Matt and Megan bundle looks appealing for general shapes and useful toon outfits, but the product descriptions sound as though as usual, there are no separate body and head morphs. Anyone know if this is accurate? Kinda ruins the whole point of having a gene pool of characters when you can't dial in only a part of it.

    Agreed.

    And for those who list the guide to fix that...I buy Daz products to avoid doing stuff like that. IMO, that is the purpose of this store. So no, I wont buy any product that neglects to ship with separate head and body morphs. I did it once not knowing that people even shipped items like that (I was new.) I'm still pretty new, but still. Never again.

    On to other sale items, are there any particular tutorials that people would recommend on today's sale? I've still got tons of stuff to learn. In spite of what I said above, I do have Hexagon, but don't know jack about it, and I see a few videos on it.

  • NathNath Posts: 2,940

    The bigger concern for me was that an adblocker or something installed might be blocking orange banners for me. Its been a while since I've seen an orange banner, thought Ive seen quite a few in the past. And I have some scripts installed in my browser recently, so hopefully I'm not blocking it somehow. It would be nice if they gave a PM as well, but if I remember in the past, the only indication you get is the orange banner and once you close that banner you don't have any other indication.

    Adblockers seem to be fine, unless you let nothing at all through. I have ABP, Privacy Badger and Ghostery running, and I get banners. Noscript might be a problem, but you can whitelist DAZ.

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    So then they don't count store credit as money spent, I guess that makes sense as it is already discounted money.

    already discounted?  Not the way I paid for it: $1=$1

    I guess some people took advantage of the GC discount offers, but I could never justify spending that much at the time.

    I don't want to add up how much I've spent this month though laugh

  • Looking at old orders makes it very difficult to see what your total spend has been for a period of time and what you paid for individual items. That annoys me. I can find out the total spend through other sites, but the way the invoicing works, once the sale is done you can't go back and actually see that the discounted price for M4 in the basket was $4.95... you just have to remember that is what you paid.

    Have a look at the order confirmation Mails you get.

  • The emailed order confirmations always show what you actually spend on each item. But if you look at the invoice stored online, you're right its confusing. I always print and save my emailed order confirmations as PDFs.

    Gonna have to go back and check all my e-mail order confirmations. I'm sure I have them all... but I'm not sure I've been very good about organizing them.

  • donovancolbertdonovancolbert Posts: 1,421
    edited September 2016

    A randomly selected pool of people receiving offers based on thanks for purchases would be unbelievably unfair and bad design.

     

    Amazon has done this in the past. They track individual buyer habits, they know who buys what, and when, by maintaining databases of purchasing habits and doing data-mining on that with analytics to determine purchasing habits and patterns, and they target different customers with different prices on the same item...

    ​And it works - unfortunately.

    ​I've watched the sales and heard about the banners, and even been targeted for a couple of them... the fact that DAZ has me buying content at all - kind of speaks to the fact that they know how to do very targeted marketing. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that this is going on in the DAZ store.

     

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,923

    DId you all notice that Fast Grab finally changed (either yesterday or today) after days and days and days of being the same? Nothing fast about it!

  • Novica said:

    DId you all notice that Fast Grab finally changed (either yesterday or today) after days and days and days of being the same? Nothing fast about it!

    I think they just added 2 new items right? The other four older items are still there and have been for days.

  • Novica: I also didn't post about the Orange Bar offer b/c I was asked multiple times by the mods not to discuss it on the forums.

    Regarding the trigger: I don't belive It is Store Credit v/s Cash sice I bought most stuff usin Store Credit ( a bit and a big Gift card with the 16% offer at the beginning as Cash)

    I belive it is probably more based on New Items boughts (Number or  Amount) even thought I got much less crazy as in the March Madness I bought a couple of Items from the PA New/Still New Categories (Around 15 including some Bundles).

    It is also possible that a non PA Sale related general customer rating plays a role, since those on this thread who got the Banner are all "regular (significant) buyers" AFAIK

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,923
    edited September 2016
    Renomista said:

    Novica: I also didn't post about the Orange Bar offer b/c I was asked multiple times by the mods not to discuss it on the forums.

     

    Makes sense, so it probably shouldn't continue to be discussed, I won't bring it up again.  I had seen banner images removed, but there's been special offers/banners discussed, don't know how often. I'll make a point not to. Sorry about that mods!  

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  • Anyway, the Flash was over.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    Can David Brinnan's HDRI for Bryce products, be used as HDRI in iray?

  • mtl1mtl1 Posts: 1,508

    I can't be the only one who thinks that today's "Buy 3" offer is a bit... off? If I'm not interested in the demon products, then I'm extremely limited in what I can buy -- especially since there's a bundle as well.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    Well, I can buy all 3 i13 offerings for $22.74 with their stacked discounts and get 20% off of a gift card...
    Or I can buy the i13 bundle for $23.37 and get... no discount. Decisions, decisions.

    At least both outfits offered today have flat heels. I thought woodland outfits required spikes?

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    You're not. I thought hte same.  

    mtl1 said:

    I can't be the only one who thinks that today's "Buy 3" offer is a bit... off? If I'm not interested in the demon products, then I'm extremely limited in what I can buy -- especially since there's a bundle as well.

     

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    I think it's time for some scientists to study DAZ World and find out why clocks don't work here. Is DW stuck in a time warp? Could this lead to time travel? I don't know, but it's a bit rough to have a morning wakeup scene, morning light streaming through the windows, with the clock reading 3:04. And not every school class is held at 10:15.

    I think I have one clock that can be adjusted, I think the housing is tungsten.

  • mtl1mtl1 Posts: 1,508
    jakiblue said:

    You're not. I thought hte same.  

    mtl1 said:

    I can't be the only one who thinks that today's "Buy 3" offer is a bit... off? If I'm not interested in the demon products, then I'm extremely limited in what I can buy -- especially since there's a bundle as well.

     

    Well, I'm not gonna lose much sleep over it... I pretty much have all that I wanted from this sale and I have a few other things on the go too.

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996
    mtl1 said:

    I can't be the only one who thinks that today's "Buy 3" offer is a bit... off? If I'm not interested in the demon products, then I'm extremely limited in what I can buy -- especially since there's a bundle as well.

    It's the same offer as the other day only now there are a couple more selections to choose from.

     

    Petercat said:

    Well, I can buy all 3 i13 offerings for $22.74 with their stacked discounts and get 20% off of a gift card...
    Or I can buy the i13 bundle for $23.37 and get... no discount. Decisions, decisions.

    At least both outfits offered today have flat heels. I thought woodland outfits required spikes?

    I would have chosen the bundle without a moment's hesitation!

  • Petercat said:

    Well, I can buy all 3 i13 offerings for $22.74 with their stacked discounts and get 20% off of a gift card...
    Or I can buy the i13 bundle for $23.37 and get... no discount. Decisions, decisions.

    At least both outfits offered today have flat heels. I thought woodland outfits required spikes?

    Good observation, but if you are also interested in the Throne room (or another similar priced Item) and add the bundle you get the Kristel Outfil basicly for free.

    So you really have to play around what makes the most sense.

  • Well, that sale was for me. 3 demon items plus gift card to get the 20% off and have the gift card discounted. Then the demon itself plus the i13 bundle and the kristel outfit for again 20% off paid with the gift card which had been 20% off already.

  • BTW I totlay overlooked that the Demon is by Sixus1.

     

    Even thought I have no use for the Demon, it is nice to have him at DAZ now.

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