Wishlist chaos and disappearing products
N-RArts
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Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little. But two products on my wishlist were marked as free, and have now disappeared.
Of course I tried to add them to my basket and check out, but everytime I went to my basket, there was nothing in it.
Have they been removed from the store or is it something else (i.e. gremlins in the works)?
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Here's one I don't think I've seen before. I click on the link to the wishlist, the page appears, but none of the product sections ever resolve, all of them are the dreaded black swirlies, with no text.
Anyone else seeing this?
I only noticed this with the first two items. I thought they were items that were pulled. I removed something, added it back, and the swirlies were gone. I might have lost a few newly added items from the wishlist... :D
No, it looks like there was a PA culling. My wishlist lost about 20 older items from mostly inactive PA's. I just bought some from these guys, and lost several from my shopping cart in the last few hours.
They include:
W.H. Whitney
Digital I Designs
Simon3D
Silencer
Davorama
InfinityRain
3DLust
drakken3d
Chinchbug
Jr. PupN'Such
BlackFeather1973
Matari3D
wowie
The Management
well my speculative thread was on the money
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/274251/who-is-going#latest
but DAZ missed out on mine
I actually almost bought something by at least one of those vendors but alas thought there is always another sale and I am short of cash
It would have been nice to know about this before they disappeared. Looks like many of us had wishlisted items from them that we would have picked up if we knew they were going to be removed from the store.
Yeah, they could have an "Annual going out of business sale". I think that was an old joke on the Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson here in the US, but it would actually be accurate in this case.
Yep, I agree: a Last chance to buy warning would be nice. Missed out on some things as well.
Experiencing the same problem with my wishlist, by the way.
I opened my wishlist this morning and 14 items at the top were blank boxes. Looking at the page source code, I retrieved the product IDs from the HTML:
5524 - Ultimate Wasp Collection
7743 - Bun Hair Textures (apparently Bun Hair is gone now too)
7961 - Jepe's Sang M4
8053 - M4 The Dark Side
8219 - V4 Whateva Poses
10073 - Kids 4 Playtime Poses
10077 - Victoria 4 Comic Pose Construction Set
10953 - The Teacher
11033 - The Amoola Sun
11470 - The Nun
12640 - Harlow Color & Movement
14019 - Santo International for M4
16791 - On the Job for Pick 'em Up Truck
27871 - Unknown
Of the bunch, the two I wanted most were The Nun (which I had just added like 2 days ago, tops) and Whateva poses. If this wasn't an error on the store's part, I'm going to contact the vendors to see about purchasing them personally (I can do that, right?).
Yes, wouldn't it just.
I lost something from my Wishlist but I can't remember what - I've just screen-printed what's left so at least I'll know what went if they do any more culling.
Ah I think I've found it - Zigraphix seems to have gone from the store.
Merged threads since they were all in the Commons.
Update: I've only lost two items. Oceana and Spooky Light gels. The Latter is (still) listed as free, but when I go to the page, I get the 404 Not Found error. Oceana is just a white block with a swirly.
It would've been nice to have been warned, and to have the chance to purchase them before they disappeared. Having said that, those two items were in a sale last week (or maybe the beginning of this week?)... *Grumbles* I really must start working on my psychic powers.
Mostly older stuff that's gone from my wishlist. All the clothing sets by John Malis for M3 seem to have disappeared: I believe all his stuff for M2 has already disappeared last year. A pity, he did some nice historical stuff. Have yet to identify the rest of my lost wishlist files.
Yeah, looks like I lost a page and a half of wishlisted items. Most notable is the Dystopian City Blocks - I only needed a few more to have them all. Glad I picked up the Hyperion Bar and Noodle shop when I did.
So far this year, I must have lost a total of three wishlist pages.
I would also like to see "last chance sales" to get some of these things (where they are identified as such).
I... don't know if I lost anything. How would I even find out?
I have FW Spooky Light Gels for Poser, but not sure if it's the same one you had on your list. I get a 404 when trying to go to the product page. Wish I'd have know there was one for DS. I'd have bought it. I have no idea how to convert Poser .lt2 files to .duf.
I don't for the life of me understand how this place doesn't want my money. Something saying "going, going gone" is going to incline me to buy whether or not it's on sale and I get the impression the vendors are not informed of this either.
Can the powers that be put these times back on the catalog and let us buy them before retiring them forever or is this somehow too complicated? This is a catalog and I don't see the point of removing old items to make room for new ones. Server space can't be that expensive.
Seriously knock it off. SWAM is a current vendor and that stylized nun outfit can't be found elsewhere.
yeah I said this in my speculative thread at the start of the PA sale, and thanked DAZ for not wanting to take more of my money too
I speculate that announcing removal of items would take away sales from new items, that's why they don't do it.
I had wandered over to RDNA some time back, saw some pretty cool items so I wishlisted a bunch of stuff. But I pretty much never went back as I was still trying to get a handle on my wishlist here and on rendo.
Then the email came - Aeon soul's last chance sale!
Oh, the money I dropped at RDNA when that happened.
I have so many items in my wishlist here it would be nice to know "hey, these are going to be leaving and it might be your last chance" Otherwise I'll sit on them picking up other things here and there until one day, poof! they're gone :(
yes it's a mixed blessing
I am fretting but it is like being in rehab I imagine
Yeah, I slam-dunked my budget on that sale too!
This all makes me want to focus on the older stuff and ignore the newer stuff.
I speculate that announcing removal of items would take away sales from new items, that's why they don't do it.
That's a deep thought. Also, if the vendors were going to pushed out of the active box, they could done flash grabs of their own and not put the onus on Daz.
It's also weird to consider what the wishlist functions like in many instances.
It's like I'm not really hard-pressed to get an item or I'm waiting on dead-bottom pricing.
I do like the final now or never aspect, but my wishlist is truly composed of meh-y type items and only a few that I REALLY Really want and am waiting for at least X% off.
Some stuff ends up there as it's not a priority. There's just too many other items ahead of it- to warrant pulling the trigger (yet).
Anything I think looks cool, might be useful at some point, or I'd just simply like to get
All go in my wishlist...I think it's like 12 or 13 pages long...
*edit*
I just opened it real quick... 30 pages :O
You could try filing a ticket for the ones removed from your cart. It might be worth a try.
Maybe they could program the website to sent everyone who has "a last chance" product in their wishlist a mail to buy it before they pull it.
I speculate that your speculation is absolutely correct.
My completely, non scientific, anecdotal observation of the commercial product market ,makes me suspect that companies
seem to strongly prefer that you buy their newest products so that they can continue to sell you more products after that where the "newness"is a major factor in its appeal.
This helps to eliminate the phenomenon of having to "compete" with older versions of your own product line in addtion to your external competitors in the same consumer space.
Poser has suffered greatly from this as many users simply chose to forego buying the upgrades if they felt the new features did not justify the upgrade pricing.
The evidence seems to suggest that too much focus on older products may actually mitigate their intended disposability in the minds of your customers resulting in market stagnation.
Planned obsolecense has always been a strategy for maintaining sales volume.
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Chip
odd his morphs and clothes are still for sale
it is possible he is being made a DAZ Original
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