Platinum Club announcement restricted to current PC members?
greymouser69
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Clicked on the "announcement" when I saw it (here in the "commons") and I get:
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I've been considering re-joining the PC club but i have held off for the anniversary month and now I can't even see what the announcement says? I've really been on the fence about it considering all of the problems people have been having with the pc club lately but seeing what the offer is for restarting/renewal might just tip the balance in favor of going ahead and doing it...
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Some people were getting that, but I think it should be working now. If you still get the same message, could you try logging out and back in again and see if that helps?
Nope still getting the same thing even after logging out & back in again.
I did catch the pc anniversary banner and was able to look at that page but even so I still remain on the fence at the moment. I was a pc member for several years so I do know the value of it but all the issues people have had really has me nervous about joining back up right now. I remember getting several products as a bonus for signing up in the past and was kind of hoping they had continued that.
Right now the top thing for me is the gen3 iconic shapes bundle for genesis and doing the math it looks like it will probably be a wash between just buying it outright vs. joining pc and buying it. Guess I'm going to have to think on that a bit more.
you're not the only one!!
between this and the whole lack of subsciption issue, and the kind of depressing announcement not a big loss though.
If you're the lucky winners, cool.
If not, well.... too bad.
Meh.
I am getting it as well.
-MJ
For those of you that can't see the message here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8648_4/
Can someone please clarify a few things with me regarding the PC Membership Anniversary Promotion?
#1 - Regarding *THIS*:
10% Increase in PC discount
from 30% to 40%
AND *THIS*:
DAZ Originals Sales
50% off DAZ Originals for a limited time
What is the total discount on Daz Originals? Can someone please verify if they are actually giving BOTH?
#2 - Regarding *THIS*:
$10 in coupons
$6 + $4 Coupons for DAZ Originals
$6 = 10-12PlatClub, $4 = PC-ANN1VERS@RY4
AND *THIS*:
Get $10.00 off
Coupon good for $10 off DAZ Originals
$10 = PC-S@VINGS-10
Are they offering 3 coupons which cannot be combined and each one has to be applied to an individual order totaling $20 coupons?
#3 - Regarding *THIS*:
Members Choice
Choose your favorites to get 50% off vote now
Wasn't the "Members Choice" items reduced to $1.99 for PC members and not just 50% off?
Also can someone please publish the current list as with me currently NOT being a PC member, the "Vote Now" link doesnt work for me.
Please advise and thanks in advance!
-MJ
The Member's Choice sale winners were $1.88 in 2010 (8th anniv), $1.99 in 2011, and probably $1.99 in the years before 2010.
The 50% off is combined with existing 40%-discounted price = 70% (See later in the thread for how the math works).
(Chohole noted this while I was off checking my memory on the pricing, which I've edited in below)
And then Chohole posted something which showed me boo boos I've now corrected.
*sigh* I'm not going to keep noting every edit.
Out of the ten products listed, please vote once for the one you’d most like to see on sale. The five products with the most votes will then be put on sale for 50% off!
Voting ends on Thursday Oct 4 and we’ll put the items on sale Friday.
Your choices are:
1. Trey for M4
2. Arkangel
3. Doctor Bundle
4. Freya’s Courage Realm
5. Battle Maiden
6. M4 Leather Jacket
7. Pyrit Hair
8. Journeyer Scout for M4
9. Reby Sky Elite Hair
10. Blood Bound
It’s going to be 50% off the current price so an overall discount of 70% for Platinum Club members.
For what it's worth I'm in the exact same boat. I'm a former PC member considering joining again but have been reluctant/hesitant because of all the problems I have heard. Much of that was back when the new store first went live and everything was screwing up though, so I figured much of it might be fixed now and plus the problems seemed more intermittent then universal. So the deal maker/breaker was going to be the membership price. If it was discounted then I'd go ahead but if it wasn't then I wouldn't.
In my case though I was able to see the promo and at least at this point they're offering no discount. It looks like they are at first glance because they show the annual membership as $69 in big numbers but in smaller darker text in the graphic it says Plus $30 Activation so it's currently $99 which is full price.
I guess they're not interested in getting new members because as it currently is there is no additional incentive (compared to any time other then the PC Anniversary) for new people to join. I mean sure once you join there are deals and in general it's a nice promo as it usually is but in a failing economy it's alot to ask people to pay almost $100 for a year or almost $30 for a month first before they can access the other deals. I dunno maybe Daz thinks most people have hundreds of dollars to blow on non essentials just a few months before the big holiday season? They don't of course, well except the top 2% of the country, but hey, why let a silly thing like reality get in the way?
The Member's Choice sale winners were $1.88 in 2010 (8th anniv), $1.99 in 2011, and probably $1.99 in the years before 2010.
The 50% off is added to the 30% existing discount = 70% (Chohole noted this while I was off checking my memory on the pricing)
Out of the ten products listed, please vote once for the one you’d most like to see on sale. The five products with the most votes will then be put on sale for 50% off!
Voting ends on Thursday Oct 4 and we’ll put the items on sale Friday.
Your choices are:
1. Trey for M4
2. Arkangel
3. Doctor Bundle
4. Freya’s Courage Realm
5. Battle Maiden
6. M4 Leather Jacket
7. Pyrit Hair
8. Journeyer Scout for M4
9. Reby Sky Elite Hair
10. Blood Bound
So no voting for 1.99 items this year? I'm very disappointed. And what a small list to choose from....last year's list had about a hundred items to choose from, with more added each week to replace those that won.
If this is all there is, count me out. I'll spend my money on other things (like a Droid X).
I don't blame you. I wouldn't join for that.
I may pick up something in the next 3 votes, if they come up with anything I care about.
No-Genesis PC Members will be pleased to see a number non-Genesis items, but displeased that they can't get the whole mess for $79.60.
(In real life, they'd skip what they have or don't want, but that'd be the max a person could get).
*Shakes the calculator* Dang it! No matter what I do I cannot seem to get 50% and 30% to add up to 70%!
50% off an item that is discount by 40% at present does appear to become 70% off the original price to me
I quoted from a post by DAZ_Ryan. I guess he maybe got muddled and said 30% which is normal PC discount, but at the moment DO's are 40% discount.
I'm unsure whether the $10 coupon is valid yet as it's in the things to come column. Can anyone verify if it's useable yet and if so is it a once off item?
*Shakes the calculator* Dang it! No matter what I do I cannot seem to get 50% and 30% to add up to 70%!
The 30% is 40% for October, so .5 * .6 = .3
The 30% is 40% for October, so .5 * .6 = .3
LOL, I had already figured out the higher math. (Although, if you add 50+30, it still isn't 70 . . . even though I know what you mean.)
Because of the wording of the message, many people may not understand the true nature of the discount. The notice makes it look like the discount is 50% off the regular prices. Someone may want to edit that.
Is this it?!?!?!?! As said the list of votable items is typically *MUCH* longer! Wow. And of these 10, how many makes the PC discounted rate?
Ouch!
-MJ
Is this it?!?!?!?! As said the list of votable items is typically *MUCH* longer! Wow. And of these 10, how many makes the PC discounted rate?
Ouch!
-MJ
It should also be noted that the Doctor Bundle actually was in last year's PC voting (I checked my purchase history, I bought it for $1.99 last year), so anyone who participated in last year's sale likely has that one already. Journeyer Scout for M4 is also in the M4 Toughness Bundle (the first one), which was also voted into the $1.99 sale last year. And Freya's Courage Realm includes the Freya outfit which was also part of a bundle that got voted into last year's sale (think it was the Really Good Bundle, can't say for sure)...
Plus, 70% off is NOT the same as $1.99....Let's use Freya's Courage Realm as an example:
Original Cost: $39.95
With 70% Discount: $11.98
True, that's a pretty decent discount, but that's still $9.99 HIGHER than the usual PC Sale price (that's $9.99 that could go towards other items IF a $1.99 sale was going on)
It's kinda hard to justify $30 for ONE MONTH of PC Membership without the $1.99 sale. (I know, it's technically $7.95 a month, but there's a $22 activation fee....hmmm....you know, DAZ, if you were to get rid of that activation fee, even if just for the month of the PC Sale, I'm sure more people might consider joining....though again, the lack of a $1.99 sale is still a dealbreaker for me)
That's VERY disappointing indeed!
-MJ
maybe the new store software can't do fixed price sales? as opposed to percents.
man, i feel like an old veteran.
This year I'm gonna sit back and watch the new members be enthusiastic for the festivities. ;)
A couple of points for those looking at the members Choice voting this year.
1. Of the ten items listed 5 will go on sale for 50% off.
2. The voting ends on Thursday, and the items go live at the discounted price on Friday
I assume that (and I thought I read it somewhere but I can't find it now - maybe I imagined it) that a new list will appear next week, 50% off is not as good as $1.99 but I guess we'll have to see.
Huh, I don't see that stated either, but I didn't look very hard. That would be a hell of a note if it was one week, wouldn't it?
I'm sure it'll still be a-vote-per-week, like it has been.
Heh, you are from my POV.
I'm there, already. It's all old hat to me now. "Oh... hey... another sale... uh... woohoo?"
(I still buy stuff, I just wore out the omigod factor).
In years past. myself, and a few select others formed The Animals & Monsters Consortium (AMC) and we rounded up votes and basically competed with the other factions jockeying for placement in the top spots: "New Stuff", "M4 Stuff", "V4 Stuff", "A3 Stuff", etc. to ensure we got certain things we wanted every week. But thats when the list of potentials were like 50 items (roughly) long, and the top 9 (i think) items made the cut. It was ALOT of hard work, and politicing, and negotiating, but it was very entertaining with all the renders and pleas to encourage votes for "their platform".
I just checked the thread on a fellow pc member account and its... "Ho hum". Now with only 10 items to vote on... and nothing really note worthy, and then the prices only gets dropped another 50% and not to PC prices... it just aint that fun = not worth it.
So im GLADLY sitting on the sidelines with you guys this year.
"The ole' Daz forums she AINT what she use to be... AINT what she use to be... AINT what she use to be".
-MJ
In years past. myself, and a few select others formed The Animals & Monsters Consortium (AMC) and we rounded up votes and basically competed with the other factions jockeying for placement in the top spots: "New Stuff", "M4 Stuff", "V4 Stuff", "A3 Stuff", etc. to ensure we got certain things we wanted every week. But thats when the list of potentials were like 50 items (roughly) long, and the top 9 (i think) items made the cut. It was ALOT of hard work, and politicing, and negotiating, but it was very entertaining with all the renders and pleas to encourage votes for "their platform".
I remember that!
2010 was a blast (The top 10 won, that year. Ties for 10th place would be decided by a mod, or someone).
People who had an item would post their appealing renders, and/or extoll the virtues of it. Those who didn't have it would post promos or links.
The list was so huge, that people would post updates on the vote, with the current top 10 and runners up. Items that slipped below 10 would see a desperate burst of lobbying. Everybody was making their case. I even got into it, a little, as a newb.
I got DS3A for $1.88! When too many people missed week 1, they put it in week 3, too! (It won again).
I think they reduced the nominees, or winners, or something in 2011, I don't find a saved page, though.
And now... well...
For those of you who never saw that, and can't quite picture it...
I'm not going to count them all, but here's a list of what you could vote for in week 4 in 2010. (I happened to save some pages).
This is what I thought we were getting, this year...
(Sorry, saved pages display weirdly for me - I had to highlight to make text readable).
I'll try to quit clogging up the thread....
I got the same message. Also, I don't see the PC prices any more & haven't gotten my October PC coupon code.
I don't get it. Sept.1, I got an email informing me that as a "Welcome Back" promotion, I was getting PC club membership free through December & the email. I can only guess that the membership was mistakenly done through 9/30, not 12/31.
Yes, I'm heading over to open a ticket.
It must be able to... ? Could DAZ really have elected to switch to a commerce platform that can't handle that?!
Even if it's just a manual process, surely they could use the PC functionality to temporarily change prices for PC members?
I don't know, but I sincerely hope that's not the issue! :)
They must be able to set a specific price, since they've done so when they reduce $1.99 PC items to $.99 temporarily. The discounts show up, but they are not all the same....
@Alisa Uh-Lisa: Oh yeah. I didn't think of that.
Update:
The winners are now $1.99. :cheese:
But there's no mention of any more rounds of Members Choice (that I have found).
For this year’s Platinum Club Anniversary we’re giving you the opportunity to decide what you want on sale!
Out of the ten products listed, please vote once for the one you’d most like to see on sale. The five products with the most votes will then be put on sale for 1.99!
And the Winners Are:
3. Doctor Bundle
1. Trey for M4
7. Pyrit Hair
5. Battle Maiden
4. Freya’s Courage Realm
The sale ends Monday October 8 (12:00 midnight DAZ Time)