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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925

    Ah yes, I keep forgetting about that little gem. Thanks Charlie.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,322
    tl155180 said:
    timmins.william said:

    That's not discrimination at all. Sheesh.

     

    Well, a bunch of people in, say, Russia just paid a whole lot less than a bunch of people in, say, the west coast of USA will for the same products. What would you call it? I'm not saying its deliberate or malicious at all - obviously it wasn't and it did clearly need correcting. But it did give a big advantage to some in some parts of the world that other people won't get. Its unfortunate, but I guess unavoidable.

    It's not discrimination, it's an unfortunate circumstance. Discriminate is deliberate, willful. It doesn't happen by mistake.

    To call this "discrimination" is to imply that the people at DAZ prefer folks in the East to folks in the West.

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,627

    Sometimes deals come out late afternoon Utah time, which is when a lot of people in Europe or elsewhere are thinking of going to bed, and so miss out on those. At these times it is obviously better to be in a US time zone.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,826

    To many people cry wolf with the word discrimination.

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,582

    I spent years working grave shift, so I missed all kinds of daytime flash sales. You don't have to live outside the US to have a different schedule.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,543

    The thing is, as long as the overall trend is for sales to go up overall, it's not a problem for DAZ to exclude a large portion of their market.  Flash sales, by their very nature, are designed to reward those who visit a site most frequently, and use the tick-tock of the clock against an unknown expiration time as an incentive to make customers buy immediately.  It's not meant to be fair, and for all that this site clearly has a number of customers around the world, DAZ clearly perceives that the percentages break down in such a manner that they rarely deem it necessary to have actual humans physically available to troubleshoot when problems occur in the middle of the night, DAZ-time. 

    Frankly, I'm amazed that they run the DAZ store on Rocky Mountain time, as it's pretty inconvenient for just under 80 percent of the population of the United States.   (Seriously.  47% of the U.S.population lives in the Eastern time zone alone, 32.9% in the Central zone, a piddling 5.4% in the Mountain zone where DAZ is, 14.1% in the Pacific zone with the remaining 0.6 percent in Hawaii and Alaska.)  So, if you feel like DAZ is snubbing you, personally, they're not.  They snub pretty much everyone.       

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,826

    LMAO, businesses aren't excluding anyone from buying their products it there isn't a legal requirement that they do exclude products being sold to some customers. You miss the sale that's your problem, not DAZ's. You discriminated and decided you'd rather keep your own schedule and have no right to make veiled accusations against others for a bigoted type of discrimination because they do they same thing you do. Abusing the meaning of a word like discrimination is a thinly transparent guise for selfish behaviour. 

    Let's all hope the DAZ business and workers are discriminatory enough for it's own interests enough to enforce 8 hour workdays and get 8 hours a sleep per night.

  • tl155180tl155180 Posts: 994

    Wow, some people really do like to latch on to the slightest thing and run with it. I admit that "discrimination" was a poor choice of words which were spoken out of anger and frustration of having just had my time wasted for a couple of hours. The issue is long since dealt with now though. There, can we move on now?

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,543
    nonesuch00 said:

    Let's all hope the DAZ business and workers are discriminatory enough for it's own interests enough to enforce 8 hour workdays and get 8 hours a sleep per night.

    Welp, you're pretty much out of luck there.  Most of the people who produce the products sold here don't get an hourly salary from DAZ, and for many it's a second or third job they do on the side.  It's kind of like a weird hybrid of e-bay and sharecropping. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,826
    Cybersox13 said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    Let's all hope the DAZ business and workers are discriminatory enough for it's own interests enough to enforce 8 hour workdays and get 8 hours a sleep per night.

    Welp, you're pretty much out of luck there.  Most of the people who produce the products sold here don't get an hourly salary from DAZ, and for many it's a second or third job they do on the side.  It's kind of like a weird hybrid of e-bay and sharecropping. 

    Those that produce those products do so of their own accord not the DAZ business' bidding; so DAZ employees are entitled to reasonable work hours and lifestyle.

    tl155180 said:

    Wow, some people really do like to latch on to the slightest thing and run with it. I admit that "discrimination" was a poor choice of words which were spoken out of anger and frustration of having just had my time wasted for a couple of hours. The issue is long since dealt with now though. There, can we move on now?

    Then why are you here again if you've moved on? I'm not latching on to anything but rather dismissing the ludricrous accustions make in this thread by you.  

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,366

    This thread does seem rather to have moved from discussing the topic to discussing other posters so it has been locked.

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