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There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 6

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,555

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Torquinox said:

    I still like a month of Daz+ here or there so I can binge on OS items and use some coupons. OS has been a good innovation. I sometimes got bigger scores on the old Lightning deals, but the OS is usually more reliable. QG sometimes has a few items for me, too.

    Yeah, that'll likely be me, too. A full year won't make sense, but I'll target to when there's a sale that absorbs the price of membership and still gives a good bargain. I'll be curious to see how much QG and OS still do for me at that point, whether or not I've picked off the stuff they're offering that I'm interested in. Lately both have been a lot of stuff I already have.

    I'm okay with it, though. I'm grateful to have cleared out all of the "really want it" items from my WL at prices that worked for me, and now I'm just left with the "might be nice" stuff that... well, might be nice. But if it doesn't happen, also no big deal. I have so many fantastic toys to play with already that I could go the rest of my life on just what I've got and not run out of stuff I can do with it. 

    At this point I'm largely waiting for a solid age-down-to-infancy morph for G9, a good set of house cats, that Dirty Dishes expansion, and potentially any other new tools that solve pain points.

    Beyond that -- it's all about the render! I look forward to having the bandwidth to focus on getting better at the truly fun part. :)

    Just don't be a stranger here!

    Oh, I'll definitely still hang out on the forums... you folk are too fun to walk away. I'll just have more art to share, and maybe someday I'll get competent enough to help out when people have questions or run into issues. :) Paying it forward is the name of the game. :)

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,023

    is MAD-FLASH good on anything? There is no exclusive products just for that coupon that I can see. 

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294

    Doesn't work on Z's stuff. Don't know if that's a hangover from the 16 hour "4 hour" flash sale yesterday....

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,486

    daveso said:

    is MAD-FLASH good on anything? There is no exclusive products just for that coupon that I can see. 

    Excludes Gift cards and memberships as well as outlet and quick grab: but it  works on new releases as well as non-new items.  

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,486

    Does anybody know if by any chance the MAD-FLASH coupon is multi use?

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294
    edited April 25

    One time only.

     

     

    Ooh, maybe not. Just tried it again and it's working. Must be multi-use then.

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  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,834

    I thought that there was a WIP render thread? Am I misremembering or is it just a few dozen pages back? (I can find the All Time and Recent threads easily.)

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,555

    Charlie Judge said:

    Does anybody know if by any chance the MAD-FLASH coupon is multi use?

    It doesn't say one only, and I'm guessing it's intended to compensate for the lack of stars (given this is a MM flashback). So I would think multi-use. 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,555

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I thought that there was a WIP render thread? Am I misremembering or is it just a few dozen pages back? (I can find the All Time and Recent threads easily.)

    There was one. I haven't seen a post in ages, though, so it's probably in the depths of the forums playing tic-tac-toe with the Balrog. 

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,639

    Valiska said:

    Havos said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Elor said:

    jmucchiello said:

    I guess the Still New concept with discount promotions is completely dead.

    I'm not sure the Still New idea really makes sense when each set of new releases have their own sale page.

    For several months, there was the Still New idea. And usually you would get 40% off still new and a 10-30% bump if you also bought a new release. It made grabbing something recently new more palatable. When it takes 6 months (and longer) for items to reach the featured PA stores, that's a long time the items just never go on sale at all. 

    I guess DAZ made this change to encourage people to buy when something they want is first released, rather than waiting 60 days to pick it up at a far lower price. A lot of people are willing to wait 2 months for something, but having to wait over a year may persuade them to buy on release when there is at least some sort of discount.

    Well, I guess that might work with me if most of the Daz stuff I bought, I bought because it's exactly what I need, and therefore I'm willing to pay the introductory price for it. 

    Problem is, it's almost never the case that someone is selling exactly what I need. They're selling something sorta similar that I might be able to adapt, once I see how it's built. Or not. I've been buying speculatively, to acquire a large pool of items I might be able to recombine, repaint, remodel, etc.

    For that strategy to work, either the misses have to be cheap, or one's pockets have to be deeper than mine. It works not at all when the misses are expensive.

    I totally get that.  I usually buy specifically with kit-bashing in mind myself, as I hate the idea of someone looking at an image I've rendered and "oh that's the X outfit or character N from DAZ or Rendo, straight out of the box,"  or to look at part of a series and note that two characters a few renders apart are wearing the same pants with only a color change.  As a result, one of the things I've really noticed over the years is that as DAZ and its PAs have increasingly focused on sexy outfits over the years, it's been getting harder and harder to assemble "normal" clothing sets with each new generation, while the cost of similar items across generations has gone crazy in the last few years.  After 3 years, G9 still has an extremely weak selection of everyday clothing compared to G3 or G8, and if I was coming into this a a newbie I'd be pretty reticent to invest heavily at the current investment to reward ratio.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...not into paying for Premier. as the only advantage is double the tokens.  Not into plugins and content that goes away if I let it lapse or G9 character bundles.

    A sale on poses, meh, particularly as pose content often dominates the Artists Store category and I have enough pose sets as well as V3Digitimes' Ultimate Pose Master along with being fairly skilled in modifying poses.

    As to the Still New sale. the items I am iterested in are still too expensive even given the 30% off one's cart discount for D+ members and tokens..

  • Cam FoxCam Fox Posts: 401
    edited April 26

    Charlie Judge said:

    Does anybody know if by any chance the MAD-FLASH coupon is multi use?

    MAD-FLASH seems to be multi use. I used it to buy several new releases 10 minutes before Daz Midnight which are in the newly added MM26 Still New category (which would have saved me about $10, rip) and the cart allows me to apply it again today as well.

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  • y3kmany3kman Posts: 875

    Is this going to be final Final? I was expecting March Madness sales to go until May since we're just a few days away.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    March Madness didn't happen for a whole week in April. (I expect either today or Monday is the last day.)

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    They fixed the price floor on the mad door prizes. No more 0.09 prices.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 22,049

    Torquinox said:

    @Dartanbeck I'm sorry, gift? What on earth are you talking about? Are the items on secret sale or did you simply buy them full price? So confused. surprise

    Letting it be included in the flash sale a while back. I only had a tiny bit of allowance left - just enough to grab Tengu for an unreasonably low price.
    I'll make it up to DzFire... I always do :)

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,754

    SilverGirl said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I thought that there was a WIP render thread? Am I misremembering or is it just a few dozen pages back? (I can find the All Time and Recent threads easily.)

    There was one. I haven't seen a post in ages, though, so it's probably in the depths of the forums playing tic-tac-toe with the Balrog. 

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/726451/render-your-buys-1-2-3-testing/p1

     

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,834

    Elor said:

    SilverGirl said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I thought that there was a WIP render thread? Am I misremembering or is it just a few dozen pages back? (I can find the All Time and Recent threads easily.)

    There was one. I haven't seen a post in ages, though, so it's probably in the depths of the forums playing tic-tac-toe with the Balrog. 

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/726451/render-your-buys-1-2-3-testing/p1

     

    Oh, thank you! That's the one I was thinking of. Bookmarking it. I (temporarily, I hope) lost a lot of bookmarks when HAL9000 2.0, my old laptop, went all "Sorry, I can't do that, Lin" on me.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...well  last purchase for the month.  Got the item I wanted off the WL, Stonemason's Main Street, (which was in the expanded Still New selection) using the extra 30% off code and a few tokens.  A little more than usually spend (I try to keep piurcahses down to around 11 - 12 USD) but "payday" comes Wednesday and with the current policy for the Featured Artists category it would be another year (at least) before it likely shows up there.  Can't always count on Wishlist sales either, particularly as some have required a New Release buy-in.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,592

    Dartanbeck said:

    Torquinox said:

    @Dartanbeck I'm sorry, gift? What on earth are you talking about? Are the items on secret sale or did you simply buy them full price? So confused. surprise

    Letting it be included in the flash sale a while back. I only had a tiny bit of allowance left - just enough to grab Tengu for an unreasonably low price.
    I'll make it up to DzFire... I always do :)

    Thanks for that. Yes, I agree. DzFire does good work! 

  • davidwski_16294691f0davidwski_16294691f0 Posts: 114
    edited April 27

    Dartanbeck said:

    Yes! Thanks DzFire!!!

    Finally got my hands on Tengu for Cyborg Generation 8! I've been wanting his Ronan preset to act as a very mysterious adversary, but the other two will certainly come in handy as well - like, I may use Tengu Zen as his brother, who is on the side of the protagonist, and Tengu as several other cyborgs that are teamed up with Tengu Ronan - we'll see.

    Three cool individual cyborgs in one amazing pack!

    Hey, DzFire... your stuff is always worth full price - the products I have from you owe me absolutely Nothing - So Good!!!

    So I really mean it when I say Thank You! I truly appreciate the gift!

     

    Tengu Ronan

    Tengu Zen

     

    Tengu

    I'll echo this one! Been chasing a sale on all the cyborg releases for this set for a while, and all of them at terrific prices!  I think these are probably the best cyborg products on the market.

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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279
    edited April 27

    There are over 1000 items on my wishlist. 43 are eligible for today's sale. None of them are worth $5.99 to, especially since they don't stack with tokens. Bah.

    And $18.99 + 30% off for Zara? Did these big eyed characters sell really reall?

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,555

    Sorry, everyone. I remembered to check QG right after changeover this week... so of course it's empty.

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,845

    jmucchiello said:

    There are over 1000 items on my wishlist. 43 are eligible for today's sale. None of them are worth $5.99 to, especially since they don't stack with tokens. Bah.

    And $18.99 + 30% off for Zara? Did these big eyed characters sell really reall?

    none of mine, is empty, but I only have 123 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,668
    Apparently I am wishing for the wrong items. Wishful list = empty. Not unexpected, I admit. Regards, Richard.
  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,555

    Ten possible WL items for me from that button... and two of them are lower than the price-with-buy-in just on their own.

    All of them are nice and all, but I've already passed on them for cheaper.

    Ah well. Another day to make progress on my catalog. :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...just got the email;about the Wishlist Pick One sale, Clicked on the Shop Now button and nothing shows up.  I unchecked the "On ly Wishlisted " box and 25 pages (at 120 items per page) of content appears.. So, out of  2,872 items nothing is on my wishlist.

    Fascinating.

    WIll wait unitl I get up later to see if QuickGrab resets.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    So with 43 items, I now feel priviliged. :):)

  • FJM1977FJM1977 Posts: 300
    edited April 27
    I have 167.
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  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,834

    Quick Grab empty again, most of my WL at full price, yet another *Not really a wishlist sale." Nothing for me today. Unless there's really some good QG items when that gets off the ground.

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