Outlet and Quick Grab Discussion

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 10,032

    Exactly three items I didn't already havein QG this week - a shape set, a metallic shader, and a G9 outfit.  Bought the latter immeditely, I think the other two have both already been cheaper in the PA sale this month. 

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,666

    Don't forget Wednesday is the last day of the month so the Outlet Store will probably change then.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,846

    Charlie Judge said:

    Don't forget Wednesday is the last day of the month so the Outlet Store will probably change then.

    Yup. And it might be the UTC midnight, not Daz midnight, so don't get caught by waiting till the last minute.

  • kprkpr Posts: 501
    edited September 29

    Lorraine said:

    I found an item from my wishlist in the QG for 99 cents...made my day :)

    So did I - Thanks for the prompt smileyyes 

    richardandtracy said:

    I like the KA horse field. It's less common to have wide open spaces in DS and rather nice. Regards, Richard.

    Already own it - Gorgeous and very useful product, especially if you have prop-trees/bushes etc you can use along with it. Well worth getting yes

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  • Just a reminder: It's the last day of the month, so there may be an outlet changeover today, and it could be worth snagging anything you fancy - just in case.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • richardandtracy said:

    Just a reminder: It's the last day of the month, so there may be an outlet changeover today, and it could be worth snagging anything you fancy - just in case.

    Regards,

    Richard

    It might change be before Daz Midnight, like QG. To be safe, I would buy any OS early today. 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,245
    edited September 30

    Agreed. I'm now broke, but the 4 items look excellent.

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001
    edited October 1

    Well, it's doing... something. 

    Go into OS, limit to WL only: same selection as the past month.

    Go to WL, sort by price: same selection as the past month.

    Filter the Shop page by $0-$1, limiting by WL: same selection as last month

    Put WL items in cart: Items at the $1 tier go up in the cart. Items in the $2 tier stays the same. In the $3.49 tier, everything goes up.**

    Will be interesting to see what happens when Daz Midnight rolls by.


    **YMMV, I'm not going to take the time to test the whole store LOL. Might just be my limited selection that's doing this, but... 

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  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,998

    The selection appears unchanged, but my Daz+ expired promptly at midnight GMT/UTC. Good thing I got my treasure earlier in the day!

  • LorraineLorraine Posts: 1,092

    Some new things in there, one i grabbed immediately.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001

    Lorraine said:

    Some new things in there, one i grabbed immediately.

    How did you search, out of curiosity? Because I'm still not seeing anything (and would like to!)... 

  • LorraineLorraine Posts: 1,092
    edited October 1

    I'm still buying for G8 so I searched for that and found this https://www.daz3d.com/fashion-basics-classic-boots-for-genesis-81-and-victoria-81 which I hadn't seen before. I think. Maybe. I'm now second guessing myself but I really like the boots and they are now mine :)

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  • ElorElor Posts: 4,249

    99-99,199-199,349-349,499-499

    If you copy that line and paste it into the price field of Easy Filter, on the front page, you should be able to see what are likely the new outlets items (mixed with the quick grabs and possibly discounted items that ended with such prices through discount).

  • I am not an experienced DAZ buyer. So maybe it's me? I don't understand the point of the outlets that offers me products at the original list price, only with an "outlet" logo on it.

    Can/ may someone explain this to me?

    Thanks in advance!

  • ElorElor Posts: 4,249

    lina.catfish said:

    I am not an experienced DAZ buyer. So maybe it's me? I don't understand the point of the outlets that offers me products at the original list price, only with an "outlet" logo on it.

    It's a bug: it means that these products were part of the Outlet selection in the past, but when they were removed from the selection, instead of losing the outlet logo, they kept it.

    On top of that, another bug means that items currently listed on the Outlet page are the September selection of Outlets, not the October one. Some items kept their status as outlets, other lost it, which explain why we're seeing items without an outlet price in the current selection. And why you can see items with Outlet prices outside of that selection.

    Hopefully, someone at Daz will fix it, meanwhile, if you want to see them, the easiest way is to use a third party tools like the Extra Shop Filters, which allows to only show only items priced in a price range of your choice.

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/742841/extra-shop-filters-bookmarklet

    Last time a similar problem happened, when Daz fixed it, the selection didn't retain all items who had, for a couple of days, an Outlet price but it's impossible to know if it'll be the case this time too.

  • Elor said:

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    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/742841/extra-shop-filters-bookmarklet

    Last time a similar problem happened, when Daz fixed it, the selection didn't retain all items who had, for a couple of days, an Outlet price but it's impossible to know if it'll be the case this time too.

    Thank you for this wonderful and quick explanation!

    It's interesting to see that this issue was known a year ago (!) and someone wrote a script for it. And both still exist. That must have been the case back when the Internet was 'invented'. I will call my mother in the evening and exchange experiences :) I love the retro vibe.

  • Torquinox said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    @Torquinox I might not pick it up until tomorrow but I will let you know how Hawkeye works out. 

    The blurb also says it is designed for both male & female, which is a plus

    No rush for me, though I'm sure you're anxious to get it. Thank you and I agree! smiley   

    I still haven't tried it out because I can't get it to install. DIM always goes to Retry if it even starts the install. I even uninstalled a bunch of things I wasn't using in case there wasn't enough space, but it didn't help. Sadly, I may just return it. Oh well. I think I have some much older Wildenlander clothing sets; maybe I can convert/autofit them & update the shaders. 

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,998

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I still haven't tried it out because I can't get it to install. DIM always goes to Retry if it even starts the install. I even uninstalled a bunch of things I wasn't using in case there wasn't enough space, but it didn't help. Sadly, I may just return it. Oh well. I think I have some much older Wildenlander clothing sets; maybe I can convert/autofit them & update the shaders. 

    Thank you for the followup! Sorry to hear it didn't work out. I may have some much older Wildenlander clothing, too. Shader updates are a great idea! If you're like me and grab shader sets when they're on sale, you probably have plenty of options!  

  • Torquinox said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I still haven't tried it out because I can't get it to install. DIM always goes to Retry if it even starts the install. I even uninstalled a bunch of things I wasn't using in case there wasn't enough space, but it didn't help. Sadly, I may just return it. Oh well. I think I have some much older Wildenlander clothing sets; maybe I can convert/autofit them & update the shaders. 

    Thank you for the followup! Sorry to hear it didn't work out. I may have some much older Wildenlander clothing, too. Shader updates are a great idea! If you're like me and grab shader sets when they're on sale, you probably have plenty of options!  

     I do have https://www.daz3d.com/wild-hunt-wildenlander-for-michael-3 & https://www.daz3d.com/wild-hearts-wildenlander-for-m4 plus lots of shaders.

    I have the RSSY gen4 to G3 converters as well. For most outfits, I have then been able to autofit to G8 and even G9. I am picking up https://www.daz3d.com/sy-victoria-3-and-michael-3-clones-for-genesis-8. In addition to the clones it has some clothing, metal, and mail Iray shaders. So I can ease my disappointment by making those new again. 

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,998

    @miladyderyni_173d399f47 That sounds like a good answer to me! I didn't know about the V3/M3 clone set, but that might come in handy, too.

     

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001
    edited October 5

    Sunday again!

    Here's your reminder to:

    •  grab your QG's before midnight UTC (roughly 7 PM central daylight in the US)
    • don't freak out if changeover doesn't happen right at UTC midnight, as it seems like things often change at around 15-past
    • don't freak out if the prices seem high; usually they're right in cart initially, and the store catches up with it at normal Daz changeover

    Good luck!

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001
    edited October 5

    Anyone considering https://www.daz3d.com/guipure-shaders might want to wait a week... it's currently $1.99 in QG, but prior to tonight they were 99-cents in the OS. Presumably they'll return to the better price at next changeover.

    Post edited by SilverGirl on
  • ElorElor Posts: 4,249

    Nice, it possibly means they have put quick grab higher in the priority order than outlet (we'll have to wait if an item is priced lower as QG than outlet to be sure).

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001

    Elor said:

    Nice, it possibly means they have put quick grab higher in the priority order than outlet (we'll have to wait if an item is priced lower as QG than outlet to be sure).

    I feel like I've run into that situation at least once, but of course the specifics aren't coming to mind at all.  

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 4,001

    And another week cartwheels by...

    Here's your reminder to:

    •  grab your QG's before midnight UTC (7 PM central daylight in the US, 6 hours before Daz midnight)
    • don't freak out if changeover doesn't happen right at UTC midnight, as it seems like things often change at around 15-past
    • don't freak out if the prices seem high; usually they're right in cart initially, and the store catches up with it at normal Daz changeover

    Good luck!

  • 3DSaga3DSaga Posts: 954

    It just changed over for me- more cool stuff! 

  • It's been mentioned elsewhere, but here's an extra-early Holiday sales tip if you're hoping to see the December Free or $3 DO choices again this year.:

    Keep your G8 OS items in your WL even if they drop off before you get around to buying. This will help ensure the algorithm offers DOs you want rather than random items from the whole DO back catalog. (G9 debuted in late 2024 so it's possible some of the oldest G9 products will be eligible if Daz does this popular promo again. 

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,846

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    It's been mentioned elsewhere, but here's an extra-early Holiday sales tip if you're hoping to see the December Free or $3 DO choices again this year.:

    Keep your G8 OS items in your WL even if they drop off before you get around to buying. This will help ensure the algorithm offers DOs you want rather than random items from the whole DO back catalog. (G9 debuted in late 2024 so it's possible some of the oldest G9 products will be eligible if Daz does this popular promo again. 

    Why the idea isn't bad, it's worth noting that a lot of even G8 items from the OS/QG selection might be way too new to qualify, so filling WL with OS/QG DO items is not necessarily going to do any good. If someone builds solely on the basis of "it's G8 and in QG/OS" they might get a sad surprise come December. I'd stick to SilverGirl's advice in the sales thread about building from the daily freeebie lists instead.

    And before anyone asks: we will have the advent calendar thread this year (last year's here along with all the data we got back then) for reporting ranges etc. before December.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,998

    The math of qg under the current sale deal is sort of interesting. A month of d+ is $9. At 68 cents for a $1.99 item, you hit 98 cents an item if you buy 30 items. So $9 for the membership plus $20.40 for 30 items. Then you get all the d+ benefits on top of that. Naturally, if you have annual subscription and you got a deal on that, you could hit what I consider the break-even point even sooner. That's $1/item or less including subscription. And, of course, you can collect daily freebies etc. 

  • Thus far this month I have spent $0.00c at the DAZ store. I think I will get to $1.99c this month with a single OS item if nothing else catches my eye very strongly. As a result, getting D+ doesn't feel like a saving, and the same happens most months. Mind you, if there is something I like, it may make sense, and a couple of scripts are looking very interesting in the Commercial Products forum. Regards, Richard.
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