March Madness banner gone
Peter Wade
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The store says today is the last day of the March Madness sale (even though it's April). I bought something yesterday but I haven't got the congratulations you are a March Madness buyer banner today. Is this being dropped before the sale ends? Has anyone got one?
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That banner itself is now gone, but the discounts were still there a few hours ago.
I just checked and gift cards are still getting the 10% BB discount. I also purchased Dante 7, so I'm actually seeing a 19% discount on CGs. Haven't tried anything else, yet, as I'm tapped out for this sale.
ETA: I tried the cart with a couple of RDNA products, and got the extra 30%...
I read earlier today in another forum post that people were experiencing their banner had also gone.
Mine has gone too, and items added to my cart do not show the appropriate banner discounts. I did read in another forum post that the bonus buyer discount status only lasts for three days after a purchase. Given the small fortune I have spent during the March Madness sale I find this quite astonishing, if true.
Oh well, wishlist deleted, and another small fortune saved.
DAZ uses the expiration of deals to instill urgency and the "need" to purchase frequently. It's the "scarcity" principle at work, and common in retail online and off. They used to use punch sales where the number of punches you got, up to 5 in a week, (1 per purchase, max 1 per day,) determined your discount for the following week. Punches expired at the end of the week. (I'm relatively new here, so others may have more input on what DAZ used to do...) Loads of people complained. So they tried a punch sale where each punch expired after a number of days, but you could keep the max of 5 by buying something every day. They changed that about a week into it, there were so many complaints about that. And so on.
The Bonus Buyer banner is sort of like getting a punch whenever you buy anything, good for 72 hours, but a max of 1 punch. The various BB offers, above the 10% or 30% for very old or RDNA products and the several freebies, were very nice. As promos go, I think it was one of their better ideas. Especially as it only took one non-free item to trigger it. I don't know if buying an inexpensive item will still trigger it today, though. But all the BB discounts are still working.
I don't have the bonus buyer banner visible either, but I've made two purchases today (one just after midnight, Daz time, one at about 10 this morning) and all Bonus Buyer discounts were working.
I'm going to hazard that they took the banner down now so that if someone gets caught by the switch tonight, they don't have the banner promising them discounts that no longer apply (which Daz would then have to honor, even if the sale was over.)
Thanks L'Adair,
Overall, I have been happy with the sale, hence the 'small fortune' spent. I was however sad to find my banner gone for the last day when all PA's are on sale. Looking at my sales record it has been 72 hours since a last purchase, and so I guess that's the reason. Guess this was a good wake-up call of 'Do I really need those items?'
...same here. Made a purchase after midnight local time (Official Daz Time -1 hour) and the extra bonus applied. Think I am done for this year as I scored a number of items on my wishlist at a pretty good discount. (including finally Urban Sprawl 3) and renewed my PC membership for half the cost.
No, No, No, you don't get off that easy. You're not dione for the year. There are still more sales to come -- The PA Festival, the PC+ Anniversary, and maybe DAZ will have something like last years Holiday Festival. Remember 'There is always another sale'.
....just mean for MM.
I missed the end of MM by 4 minutes. Was shopping, discounts were showing, put some stuff in the cart, went to check out. No discounts. My timing sucks ;)