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  • watchdog79watchdog79 Posts: 1,026
    jamesr said:
    Leana said:
    jamesr said:

    My "special gift" coupon isn't very special...it doesn't work. "Coupon code is not valid." Guess I'll have to pass on getting the Genesis 3 bundle I liked. sad

    Did you already use it yesterday? It works only once.

    Also, coupons are now case sensitive, so make sure the case is correct. 

    No, only used it this afternoon. Copied/pasted it from the site notice.

    If you mean the one for the Gen 1-3 Pro Bundle, did you meet the requirements?

  • jamesr said:

    My "special gift" coupon isn't very special...it doesn't work. "Coupon code is not valid." Guess I'll have to pass on getting the Genesis 3 bundle I liked. sad

    And my saved credit card info doesn't work either, though PayPal still does.

    Regardless of my personal frustrations, thanks to those who are working to get this sorted.

    Did you use it yesterday, by any chance? In Dazlandia, "all weekend" actually means "the one day you use the coupon because we're not gonna reset it," so if you used it yesterday then you're SOL for the remaining days.

    Otherwise, try refreshing the cart a bunch of times. That's what it was taking at the start for some people to get it to work. No guarantees, I just woke up and have no idea what chaos the site is in right now, but if your bundle is from the selection Daz provided it could be worth a try.

    If your saved credit card info exists from before the changeover, try deleting it from your Payment Methods and then adding it again at checkout.

    Yes, same with all the other codes. I did hope that they change this after the CAIRO-GIFTS marketing disaster. Some people live and learn. Some only live....

    Bingo. All coupons are one use for the entire weekend, when they really should be giving us new ones each day, promising an all-PFAD from the entire festival at $1.99 catch-up sale (I know I missed out on a few because they decided to update the site during what was supposed to be the catch-up sale, which was subsequently broken for the duration), and pretty much groveling and doing everything they can to restore good will. Free bundles and major discounts on a few items every day, plus a significant extension of PC+ memberships for every single day ours have not worked properly, would be a reasonable start.

    I brought up CAIRO-GIFTS specifically in the other thread, like... that wasn't that far in the past, it can't possibly have slipped out of the marketing department's memory already. Then again, there were never really any consequences for that apart from people being really angry on the forums, and Daz doesn't bother reading the forums.

    If ignorance is bliss, incompetence and ignorance together must be nirvanic

     

    Anyway, for those having coupon problems: If you used them yesterday, they won't work today. Daz meant one use for the entire duration that they advertise the coupon, not one use per day.

    DAZ has one really big advantage over other sites: it has the widest base of excellent PA's, doing excellent work, providing us with great items every day. And they know it. They know that the majority of their customer base would stay, regardless of what they are doing.

  • TriCounterTriCounter Posts: 590
    edited November 2020

     

     

    Latest Updates: 12:15 pm, 11/6

    We’re getting closer every day to the full expected site experience, and are able to keep making progress on more specific issues that present. As of 12:15 pm, 11/6, the following issues have been noted and fixed:

     

    • Interactive licenses are showing up in product libraries, for those who have bought them

    — The Daz 3D Technical Support Team

    Cheers!

    They are not working as they were on the old store.  If you purchased a bundle you would see all items in the bundle show with the license, now just the bundle itself.

    Can you confirm the fix is all that's happening?

    Interactive licenses are the most broken item on the store at the moment.

    Interactive Licenses are also not discounting.  They discount if you buy the product and license at the same time but if you buy the product and come back for the license later they do not discount.  May as well take the Interactive License sale banner down!

    Post edited by TriCounter on
  • Noah LGPNoah LGP Posts: 2,617
    edited November 2020

    I don't know what purchase did that but now I own twice SKU 3 'Millennium Man' Michael 1

    I'm still looking for Michael 2

    Post edited by Noah LGP on
  • 3Ddreamer3Ddreamer Posts: 1,347

    I took advantage of todays deal to extend my PC+ membership, paid through PayPal because I also had a gift card (I normally pay by Store Credit). I went to PayPal and canceled the subscription - and now my account is flagged for cancellation and I have lost access to the PC+ forum, with an active account until 15 Dec 2022. I've logged a ticket, but it means I wont have access to the PC Forum until next week. Not impressed. sad

  • Another really weird one. When I click on Grovebrook House in the store listing, the little blue man showing my logged-in status changes to white. Every other store page I tried doesn't do this.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,855

    Another really weird one. When I click on Grovebrook House in the store listing, the little blue man showing my logged-in status changes to white. Every other store page I tried doesn't do this.

    I've had that randomly happen on various store pages. It usually disappears if I refresh the page a few times.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,724
    3Ddreamer said:

    I took advantage of todays deal to extend my PC+ membership, paid through PayPal because I also had a gift card (I normally pay by Store Credit). I went to PayPal and canceled the subscription - and now my account is flagged for cancellation and I have lost access to the PC+ forum, with an active account until 15 Dec 2022. I've logged a ticket, but it means I wont have access to the PC Forum until next week. Not impressed. sad

    Happened to me when I unchecked the Recurring box, and status went to Cancelled. It changed to Non-Recurring after a day or two, but not Active. I had written a ticket and it only took a day, or maybe something changed with the store s/w, hard to tell. No access to the PC Only forum, but I can still get my PC+ discounts, and the prices show it in the store for the most part, but still subject to the non-discounts that most everyone seems to get.

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,361

    From page 1 - Wishlist quirks (could be Firefox related?)

    I'm using MS Edge (new ver). When I filter by Artist, if I select individual artist, I get thier items. When I select DAZ Originals, almost everything is showing as DAZ Originals, weather it is or not.

    Same thing happens in Chrome.

  • SusquebabloSusquebablo Posts: 9
    edited November 2020
    jamesr said:
    Leana said:
    jamesr said:

    My "special gift" coupon isn't very special...it doesn't work. "Coupon code is not valid." Guess I'll have to pass on getting the Genesis 3 bundle I liked. sad

    Did you already use it yesterday? It works only once.

    Also, coupons are now case sensitive, so make sure the case is correct. 

    No, only used it this afternoon. Copied/pasted it from the site notice.

    If you mean the one for the Gen 1-3 Pro Bundle, did you meet the requirements?

    Yes.  Sorry, no. It's not the Pro bundle.

    Post edited by Susquebablo on
  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
    Leana said:
    Kharma said:
    Taoz said:
    Kharma said:

    All of my files that I have downloaded with DIM are all zip files until today there are alot of files that just say DSX and are 1 KB which alot of them are old files that I downloaded long ago but are dated today ...I think DIM has a serious problem beyond the Download failed message

    Those DSX files are supposed to be there, there's one included with each zip.   They're used for checking for product updates and are all being updated every time you check online.  So there's no problem here.

    I am just wondering why the accompanying zip file is no longer there,  I searched through the folder and they are gone which is strange as they are old files unless I just missed them ?  plus I have nothing installed in DS as I recently uninstalled everything to redo my setup.

    Maybe your DIM was set to delete zips after install at one point?

    I checked to be sure that it wasn't, I have never set it to delete the zips in the past but wonky things are happening ...

     

    Taoz said:

    You could try to delete all the dsx files, maybe it thinks the zips also are there when they are there.  (what I mean maybe it won't download zips it thinks already are there).

    I will test one and see what happens. 

    Thanks for the suggestions

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    This is a minor issue, so I'm not sure if it's been reported or not, but every product page appears to imply that every product in the store is a bundle. I checked a bunch of product pages and they all say this:

    What's Included and Features

    • This Bundle Includes:

     

    The "This Bundle Includes" on every product page as far as I can tell, even products that clearly are not bundles like pose sets, props, animals, etc. I went way far back into the store pages and checked and even super old products have that "This Bundle Includes" blurb under the "What's Included and Features" so it appears to be coded into every sales page.

    That should probably read something like "This Product Includes" as having it say "This Bundle Includes" is misleading and implies that every product is a bundle.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    Confirming. I noticed that a few days back - threw me for a loop the first few times, as I thought I had missed something. 

    3Diva said:

    This is a minor issue, so I'm not sure if it's been reported or not, but every product page appears to imply that every product in the store is a bundle. I checked a bunch of product pages and they all say this:

    What's Included and Features

    • This Bundle Includes:

     

    The "This Bundle Includes" on every product page as far as I can tell, even products that clearly are not bundles like pose sets, props, animals, etc. I went way far back into the store pages and checked and even super old products have that "This Bundle Includes" blurb under the "What's Included and Features" so it appears to be coded into every sales page.

    That should probably read something like "This Product Includes" as having it say "This Bundle Includes" is misleading and implies that every product is a bundle.

     

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175
    3Ddreamer said:

    I took advantage of todays deal to extend my PC+ membership, paid through PayPal because I also had a gift card (I normally pay by Store Credit). I went to PayPal and canceled the subscription - and now my account is flagged for cancellation and I have lost access to the PC+ forum, with an active account until 15 Dec 2022. I've logged a ticket, but it means I wont have access to the PC Forum until next week. Not impressed. sad

    I always wait a couple days to cancel the sub just to make sure the transaction has gone thru.

    Laurie

  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
    Kharma said:
    Leana said:
    Kharma said:
    Taoz said:
    Kharma said:

    All of my files that I have downloaded with DIM are all zip files until today there are alot of files that just say DSX and are 1 KB which alot of them are old files that I downloaded long ago but are dated today ...I think DIM has a serious problem beyond the Download failed message

    Those DSX files are supposed to be there, there's one included with each zip.   They're used for checking for product updates and are all being updated every time you check online.  So there's no problem here.

    I am just wondering why the accompanying zip file is no longer there,  I searched through the folder and they are gone which is strange as they are old files unless I just missed them ?  plus I have nothing installed in DS as I recently uninstalled everything to redo my setup.

    Maybe your DIM was set to delete zips after install at one point?

    I checked to be sure that it wasn't, I have never set it to delete the zips in the past but wonky things are happening ...

     

    Taoz said:

    You could try to delete all the dsx files, maybe it thinks the zips also are there when they are there.  (what I mean maybe it won't download zips it thinks already are there).

    I will test one and see what happens. 

    Thanks for the suggestions

    So I had shut everything down a couple hours ago and now when I restarted DIM all my files are there again and showing both dsx and zip files  in my download folder ...  so strange but glad they are there again.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281
    edited November 2020

    Do the stealth move and come at it from the side. Images pop up if your mouse is hovering over the actual text of the product - come at it from the side and you can check either the box on the left if you are doing multiple d/l's at once, or hit the download button on the right easily. OR don't download the thumbnails until the store is fixed. 

    I'm enjoying the massively big images laugh Sometimes, I even get a little fright and jump back when a truly huge one (like for Cake One's hdri's) jumps up laugh when I don't realise my mouse has hovered. Ha ha. 

    And I suspect the fix of this would be really really low on Daz's list right now, so we'll have to put up with it, until the important ones are fixed. 

    Kharma said:

    Please fix the size of the thumbnails in DIM...  I have products to attempt to download ( that's still hit or miss)  but when I move the mouse over them to check the box for download this GIANT thumbnail pops up and completely covers my DIM screen so I can't click the box ...  and the thumbnail keeps popping up and down every time I move the mouse to try to get a better shot at the check box.  It is very aggravating and irritating!!!

     

    Post edited by jakiblue on
  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    I keep seeing people talking about huge thumbnails in DIM, but I've never seen thumbnails in DIM, huge or otherwise. I wonder why some see thumbnails and some do not. I've never seen thumbnails in DIM.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,724
    edited November 2020

    The "thumbnails" being loaded by DIM are just the main promo image at its full resolution, with no mechanism to limit its display size, like with any picture viewer. Having images that big in DIM isn't really useful to me, I'd rather a bigger thumbnail when I want to use it in Studio. You can batch resize with something like IrfanView and keep the originals.

    Copy any new giant thumbnails to a temporary location and resize them, with the output going to the DIM Thumbnail archive. Set 140 px max width and they will match all the others already in place. No life-sized surprises when hovering...

    If you rename the large files to match the thumbnail you get with the metadata and replace the ones in your Runtime/Support folder, you can get an eyeful when you hover in the Product view in Smart Content or Content Library.

    Post edited by NorthOf45 on
  • Now I am up to six missing order confirmation emails on as many days sad. I have submitted a ticket and got a reply that they are working on it. I get ALL emails from Daz: newsletter, mails from mods about removed posts, subsribtion mails from forums threads, mails about my help tickets......I would need a rolling eyes and a facepalm smiley here lol. I wrote asking them if they are still working on my case, I hope I will get a reply that they are, I can't accept this. I need a giftcard tomorrow, and I understand that it is supposed to be a code in the orders page at my account also, but I read that someone tried that and it didn't work and that the helpticket people didn't want to send the code to him which would be the most logical since he must be getting their mails. I haven't followed these threads so closely today or yesterday so maybe it he has got the code now, I hope so, he has waited a week sad. I would be furious. I am really scared of buying a giftcard tomorow, I always get two code emails, when I got them before the storechange, one w the correct code and one with the wrong one. What if it's the wrong one that is listed at the orders page? sad . And I asked about if the mail system is the same for order conf. emails and giftcards but they didn't answer, they just told me about the code beeing in the orders page also, so I still don't know. One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

  • ... One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

    Meanwhile I can't get Channen Hair (55161) to download for the life of me. I've tried upwards of 50 times.

    Lots of other things have been going very, very slowly and sometimes needing multiple attempts due to download failures.

  • 3dOutlaw3dOutlaw Posts: 2,481

    Doh!  Was a click away from my first purchase of the month...then dinner...then return, and my cart increased from around $50 to around $65.  Some discounts no longer there.  Sigh...   Cleared cart, but thanks for the free starter bundle!  :)

    Keep an eye on those totals prior to checkout!  I suggest a screenshot once you get it how you like it...and then double check it before checkout.

     

  • ... One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

    Meanwhile I can't get Channen Hair (55161) to download for the life of me. I've tried upwards of 50 times.

    Lots of other things have been going very, very slowly and sometimes needing multiple attempts due to download failures.

    This is the first time in the last few days that I didn't get a single download failed, the days before I have had one or two failed ones, and a few of those with no ability at all to downoad, not in DIM or manually. I opened a ticket about one of them and didn't get a reply about it, but it worked yesterday so you might want to submit one. It was such a relief to not have to go through the crazy clicking to downloading a file over and over again. But a big dissapointment about the missing order confirmations sad

  • Cora ReginaCora Regina Posts: 731
    edited November 2020
    3dOutlaw said:

    Doh!  Was a click away from my first purchase of the month...then dinner...then return, and my cart increased from around $50 to around $65.  Some discounts no longer there.  Sigh...   Cleared cart, but thanks for the free starter bundle!  :)

    Keep an eye on those totals prior to checkout!  I suggest a screenshot once you get it how you like it...and then double check it before checkout.

    Did you have items from Friends of the Sale in there?

    If so, DAZ "goofed" in our favor on some (though not all) DOs from some PAs, and then "fixed" it without comment as soon as someone brought it to their attention a couple of hours ago.

    Post edited by Cora Regina on
  • ... One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

    Meanwhile I can't get Channen Hair (55161) to download for the life of me. I've tried upwards of 50 times.

    Lots of other things have been going very, very slowly and sometimes needing multiple attempts due to download failures.

    This is the first time in the last few days that I didn't get a single download failed, the days before I have had one or two failed ones, and a few of those with no ability at all to downoad, not in DIM or manually. I opened a ticket about one of them and didn't get a reply about it, but it worked yesterday so you might want to submit one. It was such a relief to not have to go through the crazy clicking to downloading a file over and over again. But a big dissapointment about the missing order confirmations sad

    I am so, so annoyed about the missing receipt emails. Especially since that's the only way we can keep track of how much we actually spent per item, courtesy of the asinine way in which orders are recorded in our Order History.

    If it doesn't sort itself out by the time I get home from doing the grocery shopping, which takes longer these days since I'm doing it for multiple households (because plague), I'll be putting a ticket in. The amount of nonsense that we've had to put up with during the past week has been astronomical, and while download issues predate the changeover, they are certainly not helping matters now.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,315
    edited November 2020

    ... One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

    Meanwhile I can't get Channen Hair (55161) to download for the life of me. I've tried upwards of 50 times.

    Lots of other things have been going very, very slowly and sometimes needing multiple attempts due to download failures.

    This is the first time in the last few days that I didn't get a single download failed, the days before I have had one or two failed ones, and a few of those with no ability at all to downoad, not in DIM or manually. I opened a ticket about one of them and didn't get a reply about it, but it worked yesterday so you might want to submit one. It was such a relief to not have to go through the crazy clicking to downloading a file over and over again. But a big dissapointment about the missing order confirmations sad

    I am so, so annoyed about the missing receipt emails. Especially since that's the only way we can keep track of how much we actually spent per item, courtesy of the asinine way in which orders are recorded in our Order History.

    If it doesn't sort itself out by the time I get home from doing the grocery shopping, which takes longer these days since I'm doing it for multiple households (because plague), I'll be putting a ticket in. The amount of nonsense that we've had to put up with during the past week has been astronomical, and while download issues predate the changeover, they are certainly not helping matters now.

    Besides being the only source of information on how much I actually spent on an item, now that the order number is missing from my product descrption page doing a search of emails is the only way I can find the order and date for my purchase. All this information is especially important in case I might want to return an item.

    ETA: If I am no longer able to readily access information to facilitate  returns, then what was an excellent return policy becomes almost useless and I will be limiting my purchases accordingly.

    Post edited by Charlie Judge on
  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,724

    You can get the exact same information as the e-mail receipt if you use the Print Order button at the top of the Order page. Actually a bit better. You can see the SKU, the list price, and the price actually paid. Subtotal, Discount and Grand Total. Payment by Store Credit isn't shown, but that's on the order page itself.

  • For people having trouble with DIM here is something I noticed. I have multiple computers, and if I leave DIM open on one, while trying to run it on another, it causes the 2nd one to fail and give me the 0 ready for download. And log below:
     

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Network Error during authentication.

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Json Parser (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Unable to parse purchased products

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Invalid JSON formatting while processing purchased items.

    2020-11-06 21:01:06.486 Saving Account Settings: Account

    2020-11-06 21:01:06.594 Network Error during logout.


    But if I get up and go to the other machine and close down DIM there, close and restart the the one that failed, it will then work. It was pretty frustrating thinking DIM was broke again until I noticed the pattern.

    So maybe there has been some change to session limits in the DIM authentication. Because it was definitely not an issue before like that. Before it would kick out your old one you left running, now it fails on the new instance instead and in this weird passive way with no notification.

    Btw if looking for thumbnails, I was also curious about this. Because wow thumbnails would be nice... especially big ones.
    I found that in my DIM settings dialog the thumbnail directory was pointing to a directory that must not have been setup by the installer. So I created the missing directory. It was only after doing that, when the right click menu in DIM began to present the menu options for thumbnails. Before fixing that the menu option was not visible.

  • ... One little positive thing: I didn't get a single download failed on my order today so that is positive at least.

    Meanwhile I can't get Channen Hair (55161) to download for the life of me. I've tried upwards of 50 times.

    Lots of other things have been going very, very slowly and sometimes needing multiple attempts due to download failures.

    This is the first time in the last few days that I didn't get a single download failed, the days before I have had one or two failed ones, and a few of those with no ability at all to downoad, not in DIM or manually. I opened a ticket about one of them and didn't get a reply about it, but it worked yesterday so you might want to submit one. It was such a relief to not have to go through the crazy clicking to downloading a file over and over again. But a big dissapointment about the missing order confirmations sad

    I am so, so annoyed about the missing receipt emails. Especially since that's the only way we can keep track of how much we actually spent per item, courtesy of the asinine way in which orders are recorded in our Order History.

    If it doesn't sort itself out by the time I get home from doing the grocery shopping, which takes longer these days since I'm doing it for multiple households (because plague), I'll be putting a ticket in. The amount of nonsense that we've had to put up with during the past week has been astronomical, and while download issues predate the changeover, they are certainly not helping matters now.

    Besides being the only source of information on how much I actually spent on an item, now that the order number is missing from my product descrption page doing a search of emails is the only way I can fidn the order and date for my purchase. All this information is especially important in case I might want to return an item.

    It took them a goodly amount of time and a lot of angry shouting to bring that information back the first time, too. And now they've nuked it again with absolutely no word, at least that I've seen, about putting it back again.

    One wonders if this isn't intentional. That was floated the last time it happened, and the DAZ monkeys flew in insisting that no, no of course it wasn't intentional and there's no plan to force everyone toward Central even though that's what was heavily advertised in place of the sacrificed information.

    Except here we are again, no SKU or Order #. It was like they decided that we could either have that info OR the product info, but not both.

    I've just taken to putting N/A in the relevant fields and the slightly more formal equivalent of "can't look that up for you 'cause DAZ has made certain we don't have adequate access to that information anymore, sowwy~ UwU" into the description of my tickets.

  • evacynevacyn Posts: 989

    For people having trouble with DIM here is something I noticed. I have multiple computers, and if I leave DIM open on one, while trying to run it on another, it causes the 2nd one to fail and give me the 0 ready for download. And log below:
     

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Network Error during authentication.

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Json Parser (1,1): Syntax error - expected '{' or '['

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Unable to parse purchased products

    2020-11-06 21:00:42.267 Invalid JSON formatting while processing purchased items.

    2020-11-06 21:01:06.486 Saving Account Settings: Account

    2020-11-06 21:01:06.594 Network Error during logout.


    But if I get up and go to the other machine and close down DIM there, close and restart the the one that failed, it will then work. It was pretty frustrating thinking DIM was broke again until I noticed the pattern.

    So maybe there has been some change to session limits in the DIM authentication. Because it was definitely not an issue before like that. Before it would kick out your old one you left running, now it fails on the new instance instead and in this weird passive way with no notification.

    Thanks, but I only have 1 computer and I haven't had any luck closing/restarting/reinstalling DIM over the past week. It's still broken and showing 0 downloads.

  • For people having trouble with DIM here is something I noticed. I have multiple computers, and if I leave DIM open on one, while trying to run it on another, it causes the 2nd one to fail and give me the 0 ready for download. And log below:

    IIRC that was situation even before the store change. I believe you were always only allowed to be logged in to one instance of DIM  

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