"Expand Your Bone Collection" contains some very good deals on Bone Minion bundles if anyone was after them, stacks with tokens and Star discounts too!

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

SilverGirl said:

joanna said:

But I do snicker at the "Include 2 or more new releases," because in the last days, I had a hard time finding even one I'd want so much, I'd pay release price (even with star discounts included) for it.

Or today I can include FOUR new/still-new to get 80% off a bunch of DO's that are only on my wishlist as fodder for freebie promotions. No thanks.

I have had a few good scores here or there, though, so even if I don't get another, I'll still consider it a success... especially since my two previous runs through MM didn't do anything but annoy me and keep my wallet shut. This one's been a pleasant surprise even if most days are still a nope. (Admittedly, the bar was, as my teen would say, "so low that demon children are digging it up and calling it buried treasure.")

Teen isn't wrong & such a great turn of phrase. Wish I'd come up with it.

I know, right? They've been dropping stuff like pretty much since as soon as they learned to talk. I used to think it would be sad when they got older because they'd have full understanding of why whatever they said was so fabulous from an adult perspective... I was wrong. Now that they know exactly what they're saying, there's intent, and it's even better. 

(Seriously, this kid made a scientifically accurate burn about the event horizon of a black hole at age 4... and then at age 8 followed up on it and completely dropped me.)

Cam Fox said:

imo, today's promotional is worth a look, even though clothing is one of those things that can easily sit unused if you buy too much.

The maximized deal seems to be:

• 8 tokens, Gold Star, Premier Membership
• 4 Newly Mad / Still Mad in the cart
• With the 4 buy-ins in the cart, the additional discount on (all) New Releases is 40%. (This affects the buy-ins too.)
• You can use either of your member coupons if you still have them.

The four buy-ins are about $15 with tokens/premier/gold star. Can be slightly less with 2 Newly Mad and 2 Still Mad.

This triggers:

• $0.99 minimum price on Bonus Daz Originals which is a much lower floor than usual.
• There are some Genesis 9 clothes that register about 95% off. A good price if they're newer/not always on sale.
• Anything not showing the default discount (35% for Premier) is cross listed with Mad Artist Stores / Related Madness. These ring up for 1-3 dimes.

I agree that this was worth looking into. Coinciding with a few things that are new/still new that I actually did want enough to wishlist, four of them in the cart are just over $15 (they're 84% and 86% off with 8 tokens/premier/gold star) and that makes it worthwhile even if I don't need/want any of the older stuff. There's actually more than four new/still news I had wishlisted and this sale also offers a more modest, but still worth-considering discount on just "new" items, which show up in my cart at 71% off (with no other discount showing on them in the store). I'll wait for a better day on the latter, but that's decent for a "New" recent release that's fallen off the discounted-new levels.

imo, today's promotional is worth a look, even though clothing is one of those things that can easily sit unused if you buy too much.

The maximized deal seems to be:

• 8 tokens, Gold Star, Premier Membership
• 4 Newly Mad / Still Mad in the cart
• With the 4 buy-ins in the cart, the additional discount on (all) New Releases is 40%. (This affects the buy-ins too.)
• You can use either of your member coupons if you still have them.

The four buy-ins are about $15 with tokens/premier/gold star. Can be slightly less with 2 Newly Mad and 2 Still Mad.

This triggers:

• $0.99 minimum price on Bonus Daz Originals which is a much lower floor than usual.
• There are some Genesis 9 clothes that register about 95% off. A good price if they're newer/not always on sale.
• Anything not showing the default discount (35% for Premier) is cross listed with Mad Artist Stores / Related Madness. These ring up for 1-3 dimes.

SilverGirl said:

joanna said:

But I do snicker at the "Include 2 or more new releases," because in the last days, I had a hard time finding even one I'd want so much, I'd pay release price (even with star discounts included) for it.

Or today I can include FOUR new/still-new to get 80% off a bunch of DO's that are only on my wishlist as fodder for freebie promotions. No thanks.

I have had a few good scores here or there, though, so even if I don't get another, I'll still consider it a success... especially since my two previous runs through MM didn't do anything but annoy me and keep my wallet shut. This one's been a pleasant surprise even if most days are still a nope. (Admittedly, the bar was, as my teen would say, "so low that demon children are digging it up and calling it buried treasure.")

Teen isn't wrong & such a great turn of phrase. Wish I'd come up with it.

Daz MM hasn't been a big spending event for me, ever. Last year I spent around $50, $25-ish in 2024, and under $20 in both 2022 & 2023. (Any membership fees not included.) Most notable purchases were 2025 Star Trek-esque Willow 9 bundles and in 2023 finally picking up  in an amazing deal Pocket the Miniature Horse*, which quickly became a favorite of mine. Aside from the Willow 9 stuff, just about everything else was non-new.

*No longer available at Daz but IIRC sold elsewhere 

SilverGirl said:

joanna said:

But I do snicker at the "Include 2 or more new releases," because in the last days, I had a hard time finding even one I'd want so much, I'd pay release price (even with star discounts included) for it.

Or today I can include FOUR new/still-new to get 80% off a bunch of DO's that are only on my wishlist as fodder for freebie promotions. No thanks.

I have had a few good scores here or there, though, so even if I don't get another, I'll still consider it a success... especially since my two previous runs through MM didn't do anything but annoy me and keep my wallet shut. This one's been a pleasant surprise even if most days are still a nope. (Admittedly, the bar was, as my teen would say, "so low that demon children are digging it up and calling it buried treasure.")

Today's 80% has nothing to do with your wishlist. It's just 80% off this list of DO items: https://www.daz3d.com/mas-originals-plus totalling about 4200 shop assets.

joanna said:

But I do snicker at the "Include 2 or more new releases," because in the last days, I had a hard time finding even one I'd want so much, I'd pay release price (even with star discounts included) for it.

Or today I can include FOUR new/still-new to get 80% off a bunch of DO's that are only on my wishlist as fodder for freebie promotions. No thanks.

I have had a few good scores here or there, though, so even if I don't get another, I'll still consider it a success... especially since my two previous runs through MM didn't do anything but annoy me and keep my wallet shut. This one's been a pleasant surprise even if most days are still a nope. (Admittedly, the bar was, as my teen would say, "so low that demon children are digging it up and calling it buried treasure.")

In general, I can't complain about March Madness. I'm not buying much, but I've gotten some crazy good discounts on things I wanted (Stonemason's sets!!!), and keeping the stars up turned out not too burdensome with some QG choices or mad artists items and being allowed to skip a day every two days.

But I do snicker at the "Include 2 or more new releases," because in the last days, I had a hard time finding even one I'd want so much, I'd pay release price (even with star discounts included) for it.

...there is one way to get realistic faces of real people, however it is a bit pricey.

https://www.daz3d.com/face-transfer-unlimited

With a "perfect storm" of discounts I was able to get it for under10 USD - Mad Artists category (60%  discount), Gold star (30% discount), and there was 30% discount coupon for it being on my wishlist.  It is possible this combo of discounts (or maybe a dfferent/better one) will happen again at or near this sale's end.

Filed this with Support who presented nothing but flaky excuses and kept searching the fault on my side. End of story: admitted it was an error on their side, by the time gone the regular discounts had expired, I lost the discount star and was not offered the slightest token of courtesy. 

"Clear wishlist" still doesn't work.

Adela said:

3DSaga said:

I like the Shooting Star morphs, and I don't have a problem with them being G9s. One of the things I like about them is they haven't all been sculpted body builders, although there have been a few of them. I think DAZ has put up a nice variety over the course of the sale. 

Well at least two of them use the Nikolai 9 morph, and probably Cliff forThimor 9 (Nikolai+Thimor) ,which isn’t a sculpted bodybuilder type. So I don’t think pumping up variety was the main reason the sub product characters aren’t muscular.

If you already picked up Nikolai for $3.49 or $6.99 during any sale (right now in Outlet), then you basically already have these G9s you’re fine with, just with a dedicated set of textures tailored to the morph. Those include Normal maps that enhance the realism of belly folds, plus very unique Difusse maps with details like moles, body hair, discolorations, and similar touches. Those are the kinds of products we should be supporting.

It's not a matter of choosing a complete character package over purchasing a morph, we can support both, and I do. In this case the morphs provide faces that are better than ones I could make, and I can use the body shapes with those textures you mentioned. The same applies to the other promotional morphs.  Yes, $2.99 is probably the outer limit of what I'm willing to pay for them, especially with Outlet and Quick Grab pricing on complete characters.  DAZ isn't doing anything sly with these, they ID the textures they use in the promos as being the standard ones available in our G9 Materials. Obviously we're not limited to using those.

3DSaga said:

I like the Shooting Star morphs, and I don't have a problem with them being G9s. One of the things I like about them is they haven't all been sculpted body builders, although there have been a few of them. I think DAZ has put up a nice variety over the course of the sale. 

Well at least two of them use the Nikolai 9 morph, and probably Cliff forThimor 9 (Nikolai+Thimor) ,which isn’t a sculpted bodybuilder type. So I don’t think pumping up variety was the main reason the sub product characters aren’t muscular.

If you already picked up Nikolai for $3.49 or $6.99 during any sale (right now in Outlet), then you basically already have these G9s you’re fine with, just with a dedicated set of textures tailored to the morph. Those include Normal maps that enhance the realism of belly folds, plus very unique Difusse maps with details like moles, body hair, discolorations, and similar touches. Those are the kinds of products we should be supporting.

I like the Shooting Star morphs, and I don't have a problem with them being G9s. One of the things I like about them is they haven't all been sculpted body builders, although there have been a few of them. I think DAZ has put up a nice variety over the course of the sale. 

Elor said:

I picked the first non-discountd Splashy Sunday item, then the first items in the 3.99 selection and the 1.99 one, then added the first debut new item:

The first item should have more than a 44% discount (it's the gold star discount, so it's missing the extra 20%), the second should be 3.99 and the third one should be 1.99.

Reporting.

I picked the first non-discountd Splashy Sunday item, then the first items in the 3.99 selection and the 1.99 one, then added the first debut new item:

The first item should have more than a 44% discount (it's the gold star discount, so it's missing the extra 20%), the second should be 3.99 and the third one should be 1.99.

A couple of quibbles about today's sale:

It says 30% off Newly Mad Releases, but they are all actually 40% off.

Same for Still Mad releases (DO's are 58% off (0.6*0.7)=0.42, or 58% off).

For Still Mad releases, they claim and extra 30%/10% for Gold/Silver stars, but earlier the Mega Star promo says 44%/19%, which is what actually applies, so no real error, just bad copy.

The View All Items button under Additional Still Mad Releases leads to a Still New list, with all at 40% off, which is actually correct, just mis-named.

Under the Sea

KT Child G9 by katyee (morph)
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/98181/kt-child-g9
Iuno for G9 by Shinteo (hair)
https://www.deviantart.com/shinteo/art/Iuno-for-G9-1244909157
Trekant Bikini G8F by pjz99
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/97491/trekant-bikini-g8f
Free Mermaid for V4 by Most Digital Creations
https://www.most-digital-creations.com/free_poser_poses_textures_morphs_props_16.htm
Little Star Plushy by paulawbs
https://www.renderhub.com/paulawbs/little-plush-star
G9 Underwater Poses 01 to 10 by richardandtracy
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/99579/g9-underwater-poses-01-to-10

Coral Reef - Great Barrier Reef by Shreddder
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/94286/coral-reef-great-barrier-reef
Underwater Hdri by Namtaar
https://www.deviantart.com/namtaar/art/Underwater-Hdri-805776729

PAID:
Filatoon Skies (for Underwater Hdri)
https://www.daz3d.com/filatoon-skies

3DSaga said:

Am I seeing this correctly; is the site displaying properly- there are only 4 items in today's Newly Mad Releases?

That's what it looks like to me, all are texture sets for the bundles. (As @Elor noted the bundles also count as Newly Mad)

There are three stacking discounts for Newly Mad and Still Mad.

• Daily deal for 50% off Newly Mad with 2 or more Still Mad.
• 2 or more Newly Mad gives additional 20% on Newly Mad.
• 1 or more Newly Mad gives additional 20% on Still Mad.

So you can try these combo deals. Should also work with Daz Originals member coupon. (Measured with Premier, 8 tokens, Gold Star):

• $6.30 - Feminine Viking Outfit Bundle for Genesis 9
  $1.?? - Any 1 of the hairs or makeup from the Sigrid 9 bundles.
  $9.?? - Any 2 Still Mad.
   
• $7.01 - Sigrid 9 HD Character Bundle
  $6.30 - Sigrid 9 HD Add-On Bundle
  $9.?? - Any 2 Still Mad.
  $1.19 - Individual texture sets from Newly Mad (optional, the items above already trigger max discounts)

I ended up with the Feminine Viking Outfit Bundle, Odina Braided Tails For Genesis 9, C66 Drop Collide, FG Cool Modern Bakery for $20.26 +tax and grabbed some long wishlisted WillDupre from Related Madness.

Hmmm... I could get Sigrid 9, the dress, and textures with it, along with 2 still new that actually interest me, my Daz+ DO coupon and three tokens for $15.72 (without the still new the cart is $15.90, so I might as well get them). The question is: do I want any of those things enough to get them? The answer: probably not. And it's a "skip buying" day for the star collection, so even less incentive.
I'll likely sit on the cart for the day and then decide.

Under the Sea

KT Child G9 by katyee (morph)
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/98181/kt-child-g9
Iuno for G9 by Shinteo (hair)
https://www.deviantart.com/shinteo/art/Iuno-for-G9-1244909157
Trekant Bikini G8F by pjz99
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/97491/trekant-bikini-g8f
Free Mermaid for V4 by Most Digital Creations
https://www.most-digital-creations.com/free_poser_poses_textures_morphs_props_16.htm
Little Star Plushy by paulawbs
https://www.renderhub.com/paulawbs/little-plush-star
G9 Underwater Poses 01 to 10 by richardandtracy
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/99579/g9-underwater-poses-01-to-10

Coral Reef - Great Barrier Reef by Shreddder
https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/94286/coral-reef-great-barrier-reef
Underwater Hdri by Namtaar
https://www.deviantart.com/namtaar/art/Underwater-Hdri-805776729

PAID:
Filatoon Skies (for Underwater Hdri)
https://www.daz3d.com/filatoon-skies