There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 5
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FYI looks like it ends in 45 minutes, based on warning in my cart
Thank you so much for posting that notification @joanna -- those things are so rarely on weekends that it didn't occur to me to check. I wound up with a tidy cart full of things that hadn't been eligible for the the BYO discount a few days back, so I don't have to gaze at them and sigh and go "ah... but the price I could've had!" (There were I think three things that had been on that deep discount that I got anyway... but it was only $1 more each, and they were things I really needed and not likely to go on sale like that again soon. For the convenience of having them, it was worth the increase for those. And still a heck of a good price.)
I now have all the things that were on my "argh this is holding me up why on earth won't it just go on sale???" list. And the light of Earendil, because sometimes one must just give in and satisfy one's inner nerd. (I did think of something to use it for, though. So it won't /just/ be sitting in my catalog.)
Yeah, I noticed entirely on accident. Would have been nice if they'd put an end time on the tile as a warning... I would've been really skunked off if I lost two carts in a week.
We filled another whole discussion thread!
Because we are THAT AWESOME!!!!!
(I'm quoting a message from the reporting thread)
Glitches can go both ways (as in either in favor of people buying or in favor of people selling) and due to the former group being more represented in the reporting group, more glitches with a 'negative impact' on people buying are reported on the reporting thread (no idea if PAs have access to their own reporting thread monitored by moderators).
But glitches with a 'positive impact' do happen: the most infamous recent example is the 'Everything for $0.6' glitch, when instead of setting a 60% discount, what was set instead was a price of $0.6 for every item included in the sale (my guess: the backend used to set sales is a bit too barebone and it's asking people to set percentage as 0.6 instead of 60% and someone set that 0.6 value in the price field instead of the percentage field). It lasted less than an hour and was fixed very fast after being reported.
Another reason is that some glitches are only seen as glitches by someone who knows their products should not be included in a sale, like the recent infamous wishlist freebies: as buyers, we could only report that we didn't have an easy access to the selection of items eligible but once that selection was accessible, only PAs would know that their items were not supposed to be part of it.
To say nothing of how complex sales can be, so sometime glitches are not even caught as glitches in the first place, will not be reported and will be remembered as 'a great sale'.
I think another factor is that a lot of times glitches that benefit us are caught and fixed promptly... frequently flushing a lot of effort to build a good cart down the toilet. And then you have the against-us glitches that take much longer to fix, and many days don't get fixed at all. So even if there were an equal number of helpfun/detrimental glitches, the proportion of time that things spend messed up skews to a negative experience... especially when you consider a lot of the glitches that favor the buyer are rectified before a lot of people even get on the store for the day.
Agreed!
I third this!
*sneaks into the crowd of awesome forum users in hopes it looks like she belongs and no one notices*
But seriously, I'm glad both threads, reporting and discussions exist, because they make shopping at Daz much more pleasant experience. Also, what other place we could share our shameless spending (or our rage-clear-out-carts) and everyone would understand? ;)
A new Flash sale just dropped and it has some overlapping, definitely worth a look.
Plus, a golden ticket seems to count as a new release over $1. That was the only new thing in the cart I just checked out with.
Thanks for mentioning it.
Just got FE Short Hair Vol 4 for $1.79 because I also added the "30% off coupon" for today just to try if it worked, and it did.
If you like stuff from AK Ken, FG/Ironman and/or FE Soul now is a very good time for shopping due to the overlapping sales. With tokens most of the stuff in my cart cost around $1, discount for each 95-98% off.
I also got a couple of G9 character bundles for less than $2 each.
With 8 tokens, one golden ticket item in the cart and the extra 30% off coupon code for featured artists, I've managed to purchase a good number of wishlisted products that were listed among the selection in the current flash sale for a very good price. Total items in the cart:24. Grand total: ~$32. That's nice.
The prices in the store are messed up,
It shows a totally different price when I put them in the cart.
how can I refresh?
Edit: Nevermind, it fixed itself
Yeah, the price on page is way lower than price in cart right now, which I'm reasonably certain isn't how things generally work when one has tokens in play.
Feeling grateful that I was worried about getting called away from the computer and missing the unspecified deadline, so I'd hit the high priority/low-hanging fruit and checked out. I went back for round 2, figuring I could drop my monthly PA coupon on it, and thinga are a mess!
No longer sad that the BYO sale didn't work out for me. A good chunk of it was even better in this one, and for the rest... there's always another sale.
Sympathies to those who had their cart blow up on them though.
I am told there were no deliberate changes - can you please give me some examples of what happened?
According to DAZ Deals, most of my wishlist dropped to the lowest prices in 6 months to a year. But now it's not at those prices.
What were the percentages?
Looks like about 77 to 87% off