There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 5

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  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 827

    Dissapointed that current 'flash' sale do no stack with 30% golden ticket. Without it stacking, every other day that any (non current) product is in featured artist pool would get a better discount........But every other day is not a double token day angry

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,321

    Lorraine said:

    Tomhip said:

    Pretty saddened by Sue Yee finaly abandoning G8 line of products :(

    Me too :(

    Me three! I instabought it without looking, and I had to return it and Fashionable Textures after my converter and both autofits mangled the collar. Nice shirt, though.

  • LorraineLorraine Posts: 877

    Blando Calrissian said:

    I'm starting to wonder if I've run out of enthusiasm for shopping and sales. 

    I'll click through the sale page(s), check my wishlist, but usually it ends with me closing the tab and buying nothing, even with all of the sales happening.

    Is it burnout? Too much stuff? Worries about the future of Daz? Who knows.

    I do know that 2021 me would probably be buying up buckets of content at the moment. 

    This is me as well. I look at the new releases and mostly go "meh", I look at the Golden Ticket and mostly go "meh". The GTs I have bought over the month have, apart from a very few, not even been downloaded, only purchased to bring prices down for my wishlist. This week, I'm bored of it all.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,837
    edited September 24

    Blando Calrissian said:

    I'm starting to wonder if I've run out of enthusiasm for shopping and sales. 

    I'll click through the sale page(s), check my wishlist, but usually it ends with me closing the tab and buying nothing, even with all of the sales happening.

    Is it burnout? Too much stuff? Worries about the future of Daz? Who knows.

    I do know that 2021 me would probably be buying up buckets of content at the moment. 

    ......I've been feeling the same,  Usually I can't wait for double token Mondays and Tuesdays, but the last  couple weeks I bought nothing 

    It seems that little changes except the Debut Releases and Golden Ticket items (most of the latter being G9 oriented)  Even the weekly Quick Grab is primarily G9. 

    Little if anything changes on the Feature Artists sale, as well..While stores are swapped in and out, the selection in any given PA store stays the same..

    Apparently it seems that the "Still New " designation has been expanded from the usual limit of 60 days to anything released after March 1st for the purpose of the Featured Artist sales.  Items after that date up to the  previous day's group of new releases only appear in the "Still New" catch-up sales which the orange banner discount does not apply to.

    This is what makes for a rather "meh" sales event.  

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,758

    ...wow, that's some seriously old stuff they're expecting us to get excited about getting for $2.99, let alone with a buy-in. 

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,133

    SilverGirl said:

    ...wow, that's some seriously old stuff they're expecting us to get excited about getting for $2.99, let alone with a buy-in. 

    The selection is close to the $1 one last week, so they can view it as an opportunity to get some elements someone wasn't able to get last week.

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 3,455

    Blando Calrissian said:

    I'm starting to wonder if I've run out of enthusiasm for shopping and sales. 

    I'll click through the sale page(s), check my wishlist, but usually it ends with me closing the tab and buying nothing, even with all of the sales happening.

    Is it burnout? Too much stuff? Worries about the future of Daz? Who knows.

    I do know that 2021 me would probably be buying up buckets of content at the moment. 

    I think it's the very bland and samey structure all sales have these days. Not just not much changing in terms of the actual items, but the sales page, the promos, the conditions etc are almost always the same. Not just during one sale, but these days, almost all sales look and are build the same way.

    With the DAZ+ sale, for instance, we used to have different things happening on different days of the sales week - like the release of the free bundles, the new round of BYOB items (this alone could keep one happily occupied for the the rest of the week), new DAZ+FAD items every day ... One kept holding one's thumbs for some cool items to show up in BYOB or the daily deals. And in between, the weirdest, funniest extra stuff would happen, like amazing flash sales with totally strange conditions or rotations, etc pp ... I loved these sales because it felt like the DAZ folks themselves were so excited about them that they were practically bubbling with ideas how to make it fun for everyone. Yes, it was often chaotic, but those days, it wasn't such a problem if sales conditions failed or whatever, because you just took screenshots and DAZ would always honor any promises they'd made in the promo.

    Ah, happy days. But my external SSDs is full anyways, and I'm heavily back into other hobbies, so it's probably better all around. Just sorry for the newbies who missed that fun time.

  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 553

    ...wow, that's some seriously old stuff they're expecting us to get excited about getting for $2.99, let alone with a buy-in. 

    I call it a quick pass day in which I don't spend time playing around with stuffing stuff into carts to test out prices.
  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 559

    While this sale lacks some sort of excitement factor or something, its not ineffective. Took around 200 items of my wishlist so far.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,176

    Blando Calrissian said:

    I'm starting to wonder if I've run out of enthusiasm for shopping and sales. 

    I'll click through the sale page(s), check my wishlist, but usually it ends with me closing the tab and buying nothing, even with all of the sales happening.

    Is it burnout? Too much stuff? Worries about the future of Daz? Who knows.

    I do know that 2021 me would probably be buying up buckets of content at the moment. 

    I think we all go through such phases.

    Since Daz raised prices while my income didn't rise, I had to become more picky and instead of making purchases based on "I want it," I make them based on "Do I need it?" with even a more stringent "Do I need it any time soon?" I used to buy Daz+ products weekly, just because they were cheap. Now sometimes I go weeks without getting one, and I also didn't commit to the yearly membership anymore. I'll cancel my current one and only re-sub for Christmas, or if some crazy good deal comes earlier.

    What doesn't help is the constant glitches in offers that turn out too good to be true and the floor pricing (I'd have gotten many dinosaur-old products in bulk if they weren't capped at $2.99).

    So, in the end, I build carts daily, and then I dump them, because I realize I don't really need any of those products. They're neat, but I can live without them. Same for Golden Tickets. Some are excellent products, but I don't need them for anything, so I pass. New releases have been mostly meh to me, and on days like today, when they have 5 out of 11 products by one vendor and not varies, I don't feel tempted either. I have 4 tokens expiring tomorrow, and I still haven't found a deal worth using them on.

    I still can be incentivized to spend. My Wishlist has still over 3600 items on it. The Build Your Own Flash Sale offer from a week (or two now?) ago was excellent and it made me spend more than I intended (and if I had more to spend, I'd have spent more ;) ). The weekly Quick Grab items usually have something I want to pick up (and might be a reason to keep my Daz+ membership going).

    So, in a way, I'm not complaining about the sale. It's not bad, and I know a lot of people are happily buying. It's just not stunning enough to make me grab my credit card and spend.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,176

    Gift card sale on the rotating banner for those who have some new or still new releases they want to use as a buy-in.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,837

    joanna said:

    Blando Calrissian said:

    I'm starting to wonder if I've run out of enthusiasm for shopping and sales. 

    I'll click through the sale page(s), check my wishlist, but usually it ends with me closing the tab and buying nothing, even with all of the sales happening.

    Is it burnout? Too much stuff? Worries about the future of Daz? Who knows.

    I do know that 2021 me would probably be buying up buckets of content at the moment. 

    I think we all go through such phases.

    Since Daz raised prices while my income didn't rise, I had to become more picky and instead of making purchases based on "I want it," I make them based on "Do I need it?" with even a more stringent "Do I need it any time soon?" I used to buy Daz+ products weekly, just because they were cheap. Now sometimes I go weeks without getting one, and I also didn't commit to the yearly membership anymore. I'll cancel my current one and only re-sub for Christmas, or if some crazy good deal comes earlier.

    ...I've been that way, adding "will I actually have any use for it".  I still purchase Daz+ items, most often the brutalist architecture sets because they fit with my story ideas.

    I'll be keeping my Daz.+ membership going for the upcoming D+ sale but then likely not renew until MM.

    What doesn't help is the constant glitches in offers that turn out too good to be true and the floor pricing (I'd have gotten many dinosaur-old products in bulk if they weren't capped at $2.99).

    Same here. The only way I've been able to undercut the 2.99 "floor" was using my Daz+ DO coupon.

    I still can be incentivized to spend. My Wishlist has still over 3600 items on it. The Build Your Own Flash Sale offer from a week (or two now?) ago was excellent and it made me spend more than I intended (and if I had more to spend, I'd have spent more ;) ). The weekly Quick Grab items usually have something I want to pick up (and might be a reason to keep my Daz+ membership going).

    Crikey, and I  thought my Wishlist was bif (though over half of the last page are "inactive" products).

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,239
    edited September 25

    n/a

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  • kprkpr Posts: 285

    Very old things for $1.99 - there were a couple of items I might have got (another dragon3 iray converter, things like that...) but nothing worth 5x from a Grab-Bag I want nothing from (first time that's happened with those, though).

    Giftcard - 20% is good. But minimum $20 buy-in of two things I don't want is 20% in $100 back 

    tbh the little garden golden-ticket, and its pots, was lovely (so I __almost__ did that)

    But yeah ... meh indecision

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,237

    I just want to say thank you DAZ for the gift card sale. I was about to check out when I saw it. I didn't have a new item in the cart, but there were a few still new items I had wishlisted I put in my cart and the card dropped by 20%. It will help if I can remember it is not to be used in a week, but to be stretched. But, I did have a Predatron cart and I am happy. He is a gift that keeps on giving.

    Mary

  • theflarftheflarf Posts: 197

    The flawed sales idea for these golden ticket items is that if I miss one i.e a day I can't check I won't buy it the next day for the higher price, I simply won't pay more for something I could have gotten for less the day before.

     

     

  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 553
    theflarf said:

    The flawed sales idea for these golden ticket items is that if I miss one i.e a day I can't check I won't buy it the next day for the higher price, I simply won't pay more for something I could have gotten for less the day before.

     

     

    But, it also encourages people to check each day because of that. And if someone REALLY wants, they will still pay the second day price, especially if they want to trigger another discount while not caring as much for the current day item. I can attest I have bought the second or third day item twice now because of sale reasons. Some folks may be put off by the mechanic, but my guess is it has an overall increase in effect. I think the saying is something like "You can make 20% of people happy 80% of the time, and 80% of people happy 20% of the time."
  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,758

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

  • 3DSaga3DSaga Posts: 638
    edited September 25

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    At first I only saw that check box when I was viewing my wishlist. I now see that a store or selection has to be displayed for that optiont to show. I think that filter is something that many people have asked for.  Hopefully it works...

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,745

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    thats very cool - finally.  

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,758

    3DSaga said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    The strange thing for me is I only see that check box when I'm viewing my wishlist!  

    Weird! It's showing everywhere for me, 

  • kprkpr Posts: 285

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    surprise [faints] 

  • daveso said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    thats very cool - finally.  

    Will wonders never cease?

  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 553
    kpr said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    surprise [faints] 

    Quick check to see if any pigs are flying!
  • SilverGirl said:

    3DSaga said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Oh interesting. The store now has an "only wishlisted" checkbox at the top.

    The strange thing for me is I only see that check box when I'm viewing my wishlist!  

    Weird! It's showing everywhere for me, 

    It works for me. Which browser are you using? Does it work if you restart in troubleshooting mode (or whatever your browser calls an option to run without extensions)?

  • 3DSaga3DSaga Posts: 638

    It's working for me now, Richard. I may have been using an old tab that hadn't updated. 

  • The wishlist filter someone (sorry I forget who) wrote was integrated into the Daz Shop!!

    Now if only they could put the categories filter on all pages. (They always want more, right?)

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    In case anyone wants to thank the author personally, check this thread

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,239
    edited September 26

    maikdecker said:

    In case anyone wants to thank the author personally, check this thread

    A wishlist-only filter is now baked into the store. There's even an announcement in today's sale page. 

    Post edited by Torquinox on
  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 827

    Love the new Wishlist feature. Sadly, the 'wishlist' sale is meh at most, golden ticket does not trigger extra discount and selection carefully avoids stacking with 30% feature artist coupon.

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