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

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...the banner deal was some sort of "thank you" gesture that read "Thank You For Your Support" and was good for 20 USD off of Daz Originals. It still shows  up today even thought  I already used the code (only good once per customer).

    Check your messages n your account page

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294

    Do you have a screen shot of that? I don't have any message or banner.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,668
    Orange banners are frequently specific to certain people. I didn't get one, probably didn't spend enough, as I save money by not spending rather than by spending on a lot of items in clever ways to minimise the price.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    edited May 2

    ...attached below,  Notice in the background the main store page shows today's (Saturday) new sale.

    Daz orange banner.png
    1185 x 582 - 301K
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  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294

    Hmmm. Considering I've spent over $5000 in the last six months, I'm a bit miffed that I didn't get that.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,838
    edited May 2

    garrett_3d said:

    Hmmm. Considering I've spent over $5000 in the last six months, I'm a bit miffed that I didn't get that.

    They seem to be coming in waves. I got mine 2 days ago, while theirs got theirs longer than that and some are getting them today. I'm sure others are going to be getting them at various times. You never know if your going to get one or not. 

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  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 944

    I didn't got one either :(

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Premier Free selection is down to 6 bundles. Really makes me want to re-join. 

    No one has ever given me a good reason why the list isn't just "All Daz Originals Character Bundles". Heck, why aren't G3 Character Starter Bundles included? It makes no sense to make a game of the eligibility.

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294

    On the plus side, I got the Cate 9 bundle for nothing.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    garrett_3d said:

    Hmmm. Considering I've spent over $5000 in the last six months, I'm a bit miffed that I didn't get that.

    Frankly, seeing this here for the first time I'm more than "a bit miffed". WTF! I make purchases 4 or more times per week.

  • MonkeMonke Posts: 44

    I've had the misfortune to work with marketing types most of my career.

     

    It's almost never about rewarding loyal customers. They know you will be back.

    It's about what they can do to get somebody who is hesitating to spend, to part with their money.

    If some 5%-off coupon is what they think it will take, then that's what you'll get. Somebody else might get 20%.

     

    Giving a discount to a different subset of customers each time is a cheaper way to keep people coming back to check the store. Just like when you give a wild animal food several times, it will keep coming back, and even if you only have food half the time, it will be back every day just in case. You can save a lot of money while maintaining the same amount of attention.

     

    Rotating items in and out of availability (even though it's digital and can be copied infinitely) is the same as retail moving the chocolates to another aisle so you feel some kind of panic when you see they are not where they should be. Now you have an impulse to buy up whatever you can, just in case you can't get it again in the future.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,797

    If you spend a lot, they might figure you don't need any more encouragement. If you spend very little, they might not think it worthwhile. Maybe it's totally random, who knows? Maybe some AI algo is crunching the numbers to see who is likely to move at a certain discount. As Monke said, it's all Marketing tric-, uh, tactics. Yeah, that's it. Tactics.

  • Yeah. I've even gotten a few of the "Thank you for being a loyal customer/participating in Event" messages when I barely bought anything in a while or 90-100% of what I bought in the Event was freebies.

    And no, no sign of an orange banner, message, or DIM offer

  • ValiskaValiska Posts: 163

    I spent too much money, but probably not much compared to some of you. I got an orange banner and used it to finally get Minerva 9. Very happy with that.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,023

    i say that i didn't get the banner, but then, I have no DO items in my WL, and actually have a very hard time finding anything for my coupons that are DO, so all in all, I really dont need a DO coupon. 

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,569
    edited May 3

    Oh heck, I couldn't resist. I got the Spooky Hollow bundle for around $11.

    I bought an "Alluring" item as a buy-in.

    The "list price" for the Spooky Hollow Bundle was $159.95.

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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    Monke said:

    I've had the misfortune to work with marketing types most of my career.

     

    It's almost never about rewarding loyal customers. They know you will be back.

    It's about what they can do to get somebody who is hesitating to spend, to part with their money.

    If some 5%-off coupon is what they think it will take, then that's what you'll get. Somebody else might get 20%.

    And if you do this a lot, loyal customers will get angry when they find out. Excluding them because they'll come back is forgetting they might walk away completely if angered. And losing a fish has to be worse than picking up a 100 one-timers.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,486
    edited May 2

    jmucchiello said:

    Monke said:

    I've had the misfortune to work with marketing types most of my career.

     

    It's almost never about rewarding loyal customers. They know you will be back.

    It's about what they can do to get somebody who is hesitating to spend, to part with their money.

    If some 5%-off coupon is what they think it will take, then that's what you'll get. Somebody else might get 20%.

    And if you do this a lot, loyal customers will get angry when they find out. Excluding them because they'll come back is forgetting they might walk away completely if angered. And losing a fish has to be worse than picking up a 100 one-timers.

    But that seems to be the current pattern at DAZ where Premier members were recently excluded from  purchasing a Premeir membership at the 25% discount. And as a result I will be leaving when my membership expires in June.

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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279
    edited May 3

    Charlie Judge said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Monke said:

    I've had the misfortune to work with marketing types most of my career.

     

    It's almost never about rewarding loyal customers. They know you will be back.

    It's about what they can do to get somebody who is hesitating to spend, to part with their money.

    If some 5%-off coupon is what they think it will take, then that's what you'll get. Somebody else might get 20%.

    And if you do this a lot, loyal customers will get angry when they find out. Excluding them because they'll come back is forgetting they might walk away completely if angered. And losing a fish has to be worse than picking up a 100 one-timers.

    But that seems to be the current pattern at DAZ where Premier members were recently excluded from  purchasing a Premeir membership at the 25% discount. And as a result I will be leaving when my membership expires in June.

    I've submitted help tickets about felling ignored. They say they will send the info up the chain. Better than nothing by the slimmest of betters.

    And you leaving in June is exactly my point.

    Post edited by jmucchiello on
  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,569

    Wow I'm making use of the 60% off Genesis 8 Males to get some great deals.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    edited May 4

    .."underwhelming" is an overstatement for the Monday Featured Artists selection. Only two pages, mostly G9 characters and little if anything relating to Sci-Fi .

    Unchecked the Hide Items I Own box and nothing was added.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 294

    Wow! Did the Jedi artists leave the space station? There's naff all in any of them.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 13,117

    kyoto kid said:

    .."underwhelming" is an overstatement for the Monday Featured Artists selection. Only two pages, mostly G9 characters and little if anything relating to Sci-Fi .

    Unchecked the Hide Items I Own box and nothing was added.

    There’s a specific sale on sci-fi items at the top of the page.
    I agree though that it's a bit strange that not a single one of today’s new releases has anything to do with the supposed theme…

  • 3DSaga3DSaga Posts: 792
    edited May 4

    I'm celebrating Quick Grab today! That's what's going to drain my wallet. 

    The more I see these "regular" sales, the more convinced I am that I'm not in the target market for DAZ. I say that because the buy-ins are too high for me to participate more than once or twice a month. The least expensive item is a highly stylized morph that was selling a few weeks ago for $2.99 (I'm still a Premier member). I would love to buy some of the new items and not wait a few years for them to be marked down, and I would if DAZ made it more enticing for me. Just my personal take this Monday morning with my first cup of coffee...

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  • PoshTentaclePoshTentacle Posts: 8

    Is there a way to report items that probably should be on sale but aren't? For example, this cybernetic arms asset https://www.daz3d.com/cyber-augments-hd-for-genesis-9 is discounted, while one for cybernetic arms (by the same creator) https://www.daz3d.com/cyber-augments-legs-hd-for-genesis-9 doesn't seem to be part of the sale at all.

  • felisfelis Posts: 6,287

    Report issues here. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758431/new-year-new-sales-thread-report-issues-here-4-reporting-only#latest

    But the missing item is newer than the other and Daz might have made a cutoff date prior to that. For some time items on sale must be before 2025.

  • PoshTentaclePoshTentacle Posts: 8

    felis said:

    Report issues here. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758431/new-year-new-sales-thread-report-issues-here-4-reporting-only#latest

    But the missing item is newer than the other and Daz might have made a cutoff date prior to that. For some time items on sale must be before 2025.

     Interesting; how do you tell when the product was released? I don't see a date anywhere.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,529
    edited May 4

    PoshTentacle said:

    felis said:

    Report issues here. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758431/new-year-new-sales-thread-report-issues-here-4-reporting-only#latest

    But the missing item is newer than the other and Daz might have made a cutoff date prior to that. For some time items on sale must be before 2025.

     Interesting; how do you tell when the product was released? I don't see a date anywhere.

    Daz Deals plugin links to the product's ReadMe page, and the date is there.

    Post edited by joanna on
  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,279

    joanna said:

    Daz Deals plugin links to the product's ReadMe page, and the date is there.

    I can never remember what is in or not in Daz Deals. :)

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,023
    edited May 4

    QG has 3 Stonemason items I would buy at 9.99. It would be worth it to grab Premier first and buy them at $4.99 each  The 3 items $30. 3 items plus Premier - $33.95. So and extra 4 bucks in cash but a free character bundle and 2 $10 coupons, plus the tokens added. Plus I can buy the DAZ+ stuff for a way lots less than listed full price. Actually if I'm buying it wuld be numb not to join a membership. Or, I could just do DAZ+ for $10 less and be in the good right out the gate. 

    Now to figure out Premier or DAZ+, again. I've been doing month to month, skipping a few , with Premier. overall bang for buck if you're going to buy more than a couple of times throughout the month. The tokens alone can save a lot, as long as the exclusions don;t keep increasing. 

    Post edited by daveso on
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