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I'm not sure what you're saying and what you mean by "the sale". We've been exactly a week into March Madness (a month long "the sale") and every day a new release was required to activate the 30% off extra for Mad Artists stores and Related Madness, including during the catch up sale days. Buying anything over $1 would activate the golden ticket the next day (so if you buy today, it only activates tomorrow) which gives you 10% off extra and brings the new release down to 50% off.
May the muses smile kindly on you!
I see what you did there...
By "the sale" I actually meant "March madness" which was announced as a sales period and which in previous years was a month-long period of excellent discounts, while this year it seems much more subdued, with discounts that are not very appealing and not very different from other periods.
It looks like that might be the case. Add one of the New items to get the discounts for the Mad stuff. It seems to be the typical sale structure but hopefully as we get through the month the difference becomes more items, and more aggressive discounts.
Considering the last couple "March Meh-ness's" did go: nah, rather bury that hope...
Granted, I'm really only interested in new releases at this point, but so far this sale has been decent for me.
Don't forget An extra X% off your entire cart*!
*Excludes Fast Grab, Gift Cards, New Releases, Daz+ Items, Daz Originals, PA Items, and items older than 60 days. Does not stack with other discounts.
**also, memberships, and some other random things for no reason anyone can seem to determine
*** and licenses
I used to sometimes spend hours during sales juggling my cart and looking at tons of items imagining how they could be used and this year I open the sales page, see the same overpriced unwanted old "door prizes", add a few new items to my wishlist, come here and check the forums to see if I somehow missed something awesome, which I didn't, make a disgruntled comment here, and close the site. I did make my first "purchase" though, the two Daz+ freebies.
Well, I can't complain, I've spent around $135 total so far and that includes the price of Premier membership, and I have already purchased just under $2,400 in content (if valued at full list price).
Granted I've been buying a lot of older stuff: Stonemason & Aurelio for environments, so a lot of it is priced starting at 70 to 80% off which makes it very easy to stack it cheaply with my other discounts to hit 94%. But I've also been buying lots of newer Daz+ stuff from Petipet and Predatron, as well as Ultra Scenery Add-ons, G8 characters, etc. Basically just clearing out my wishlist of stuff that has been on there a long time, stacking new items to get discounts on old.
I was also finally able to get the Daz Horse 2 Pro Bundle for 97% off! So now I finally have all those exclusive breed morphs and textures that were only available with the DH2 Pro Bundle. I think that was ironically my most satisfying purchase so far, because I could never justify buying the Pro Bundle after I had already owned the majority of the content through various piecemeal purchases over the years. It felt so wrong to be denied those other textures and morphs. But I am denied no more! Victory finally!
By the way, I can't beleive how Stonemason's older stuff still looks so freaking amazing! "The Warehouse" is 15 years old. Right out of the box render with no adjustment to materials or render settings. I would have never guessed it was this big from the promos, which don't do it justice at all, its a pretty massive set. I was expecting one small warehouse interior and maybe a bit of an exterior. There is like a whole warehouse/shipping yard district with an overpass, background buildings, etc. In some ways I think I prefer his older stuff, not gonna lie. He really "undersold but over delivered" back then. Still love the new stuff of course, but I love the grand scope of some of his earlier stuff. You can really tell a whole story with just a set like this. Every camera angle you could possibly need you can make, and it renders fast with enough detail for anything from background shots to medium close shots.
I got it around that price too, for the same reason (except I didn't own anything in it but the morphs you're speaking about are needed for Cadichon, so now it's possible to buy it and use it if I want).
The warehouse looks nice :)
I have similar problems, also like @joanna stated earlier in this thread: If it's all tied to new releases, you're just done pretty quickly if you can't find anything appealing there. And even if you do, there's still not much excitement to follow.
I remember when it really paid off to scroll the current sales page way down because every few inches there was something new on offer, and more interesting deals often hid at the very bottom. It was so exciting to just throw stuff in the cart to be surprised by the stacking suddenly happening (or not ;-)), and to try and get the very best combo with ten different deals. Now, every day's sales page is very much like the other, not just during MM, but ALL the time. The only thing hiding at the bottom of the sales page always is 'recent amazing bundles' (that have been around for months sometimes), and if orange banners pop up at all, they often jusg repeat the main offer of the day. I miss my fun cart jenga times.
Is it just me, or is March Madness a complete waste of time? They have better promotions and sales all year round than they do now. Most things aren't reduced at all or are 30-60% off. Wasn't it different in the past? I haven't bought a single thing yet... well, not that I regret it, but hey...
This is exactly how I feel
Or potentially a %-off, but everything eligible suddenly jumped to full price... or at least high enough that the % still doesn't get it even vaguely in range of interesting me..
Well. I have found a couple of good wishlist deals that I snapped up.
On Amazon. For Kindle books of next books in series I've not been able to find in hard copy.
We're out of book space. Completely out of space. Our study has 3 walls with double stacked shelves floor to ceiling + stacks everywhere there is floor space. It probably has 5000 books. The kids have 3-4000 in each of their bedrooms, my wife & I have 2000 in our bedroom, the living room has a bookcase with 300, in fact the only room without 100 or more books is the downstairs toilet and that's only due to the humidity there. I'm certain we have more books than the ancient library of Alexandria, which is reputed to have had 10,000. So, I'm trying to mostly get kindle books now unless the content is technical, which means a paper copy will be better. Current kindle book count is around 750, of which all but 20 were free. Wish I could give summat back in kind for the generosity of some authors allowing me to download so many books for free, but writing stories is really not my forte. I have downloaded freebie books that are worse than my normal standard of writing but from a QA point of view, it'd be better if I didn't add to the rubbish available.
That seems to be my 'Mad March' purchases.
Regards,
Richard
I think every author I've known has written at least in part because they were hoping to reach people and bring joy. (Also largely because the voices won't shut the heck up until you tell their stories.) A kind word, either by email or review, to know it worked... serious day brightener. :)
The other week I was installing https://www.daz3d.com/the-warehouse on my new computer and again marvelled at how well this warehouse reflects actual safety standards, physical dimensions, and simple looks a real warehouse built after the 1950s would have. Having spent 24 years in various military warehouses around the world, from ones built between WWI to WWII (USA & Germany), prefab, quonset huts on steroids, and massive regional distribution sites, I know them. Good and bad. This is the real deal. (Even my 20 year civilian career had me in our shipping warehouse at times.) Of course, if thinking of an Amazon warehouse, you might need to add more items to it. And replace humans with robots/computers.
I've spent $20. Most of it for Premier at the very end of February so I could get Niketa 9 while she was still in the free bundle selection. Not to mention it got me 2 sets of coupons, in case MM '25 exceeds my expectations.
Picking up Niketa was a very good call, as she isn't in the selection now. (Yes, I unchecked Hide Owned) I also got Zale 8.1 & https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-flyer-bundle for $1 & change with the Feb. DO coupon. I know the fliers are old but they look cool and I like Nightshift 3D's SF models. I forgot the Feb. $10 off $25 < blush >
So, assuming I use all 3 March coupons, that's $30 plus the cost of 2 character bundles (currently $40-65 each) I will save. Not too bad. I can't promise I will spend much more on MM than the minimum to use the $10 coupons, however, since nearly everything requires New buy-ins (few of which appeal to me) &, like everyone, I've Real Life expenses.
Bought old stuff. Happy with old stuff. But I've spent enough money for a while, so I'm out.
Richard, very OT but important - if you love your books, do keep in mind that amazon is now making it abundantly clear that you don't in fact own any of the ebooks you buy there. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but as of Feb 26, you cannot make any kind of safe-keeping copies on your PC anymore, and all ebooks you downloaded are 100% subject to any change that amazon feels necessary. That doesn't just relate to the cover art but also the actual content. So don't put your trust in this system, space-saving though it may be.
Same here. I bought an audiobook of a book I really enjoyed (library loan) and I wanted to own. Can't pass on a $5 deal like that.
That's actually not exactly true. (Coming not only from an Amazon user but an author who publishes via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing—among other places—and who because of that keeps a close eye on things.)
Amazon was always only selling a license, but now they just make it a bit clearer. If you want to own the files, shop at places like Smashwords. (That excludes any books available in Kindle Unlimited, but those authors made a choice to be exclusive to Amazon).
What they are actually taking away is just the ability to download files directly to your PC to transfer to your Kindle device via cable—something that is becoming obsolete because all of their readers have WiFi build in. So it affects only a very small portion of Amazon customers who have Kindle devices that are over a decade old. (Kudos for making them run so long. My Paperwhite died after 6 years...)
You still can download the files to your PC via their Kindle App for PC and you can then proceed to back up the book files somewhere else by simply copying relevant folders to external drives etc. What changes is that instead of having them in azw3 format, they are now in Kindle App format, so you can only read them in said app. While this might be an unappealing move, it's nothing that other companies aren't doing already: you can only read Kobo-bought books on Kobo app and ereader (the download option is there, but buried deep—just like Amazon's was—and requires Adobe Digital Right Management software), you can only read Barnes&Noble books on Nook or their app, and you can only read Google Play books on Android devices, and you can only read Apple Books... and so on. Basically, they're getting rid of a feature hardly anyone used already and tighetning their ebook ecosystem.
Of course, as an author whose books are in "wide" distribution, I'm happy to direct people to other bookstores (and I did buy a new ereader that runs on Android, so that I can install all the apps, Kindle, Kobo, and my library apps as well vs. being tied to one store), but let's not demonize phasing out a feature most people had no clue even existed. :)
It depends: last time I read about it, people were saying that Amazon had DRM on every book using KFX, even from publishers who wanted to sell them without DRM. Kobo does respect publishers' wishes regarding DRM, so any book from a publisher selling DRM free books (usually using watermarking instead) can be read on any device after, at worse, converting it using a tool like Calibre.
Kobo's downloads allow to read books on any device compatible with Adobe DRM (which is pretty much any e-ink device not made by Amazon), even if like you said, it could be more visible and easier to use.
If it was not one more step to make Amazon ecosystem even more locked, sure, but it is such a step and it means people who don't want to use Wi-Fi with the e-readers will have to do so, even if they had good reason not to turn it on (battery life is worse with and they may get an update pushed to their device even if they don't want it).
Thankfully, I got the couple of books I bought from Amazon safe and secure in my Calibre library a long time ago and as far as I remember, I didn't lost anyone of them in the process: I learned my lesson when Hachette UK decided to change the rules after I bough 50£ of books from a British bookstore who then closed its ebook store, meaning due to the new rules, I could not keep my books because as someone living in France, I was now longer allowed to buy them, so could not transfert them to my Fnac account.
But I'll say that, Amazon knows (or knew, no idea about their modern devices) how to make a rock solid device: my Paperwhite 1 was still working in 2023 when I replaced it with a Libra 2 (so close to 10 years of use). I could have keep using the Paperwhite (it was still working fine, with enough battery life for a couple of books), but I wanted buttons, night mode light and it was my non-birthday, so I treated myself with a new e-ink device.
Hopefully, the Libra 2 will keep working for many years, ideally surpassing the Paperwhite as my longest used e-reader (I previously had a couple of Sony devices: a PRS-505, a PRS-605 then a PRS-650).
Well... I've used this feature exclusively for 10+ years, so it was really irritating when I heard they were making these changes. As Elor mentioned, not everyone wants to have wifi switched on. We've got about 8 kindle e-reader devices in use at home, the oldest probably 15 years old? and I have wifi switched off on all of them, especially on the kids' devices. I haven't yet put any new books on them since the change, so I'll have to see how things go...
March Madness is working out well for me so far. I too have finally been able to get Stonemason sets for pretty good prices. As noted above, even his older creations have aged really well and still look outstanding. I've also gotten both of the characters in the Nerdworks store. I keep adding things each day (including from the $1.99 daily items). MM is givng me a pretty good return on my Premier membership.
After three crazy months (October, November, December) I would say it was a calm March.
I have bought more than enough stuff. Those three months were crazy. I should save half of the money to upgrade my computer hardware. Maybe there will be surprises in March. I am ready and stay calm, Now I only buy things I need urgently.
I'm aware that I can't treat these purchases as entirely my own, as there is no second hand market and it's not even very easy to share the books with the rest of my family. However, their limitations don't alter the fact we simply have no more space and that they do enable me to continue reading new stories.
Regards,
Richard