"We have no new products today, but please, spend money"
dan.shive
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This is what I always think when I see a sale extended for a day with no new products. Not really complaining, mind you. Just putting that out there.
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Not everyone has bought everything in the store. Sometimes it's nice to extend sales for people who wanted to buy something which is now discounted.
Hence the "not really complaining, mind you."
Greetings,
...and a lot of people get paid on the first of the month, which makes sales that end at end-of-month frustratingm. (Not me, mind you, I get paid the last day of the month, so it usually works out.)
-- Morgan
It does seem routine that sales that get extended which suggests that there be better planning and communication, however that should not interfere with new product introduction.
IIRC this particular sale was extended because of complaints from people who didn't get their notifications on the first day . . . that having been said, the habit DAZ marketing has of setting up sale periods so they end right before the most common paydays has been the subject of much frustrated commentary over the years.
As for new products, DAZ doesn't always have new products up every weekday, that used to be for special events . . . which happened maybe four-ish semi-evenly spaced times a year, for about a month apiece, but then sales and special PA releases started happening more and more frequently, so often that they started blurring together, in a constant, unrelenting stream of new products, just coming on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on, never seeming to end -- until today it did.
:P
I very briefly thought something might be wrong with my e-mail program when I saw that long stretch of "and on"s ^^;
Check out the current rotating ads. They say 2000 MORE value items and Platinum items are being added.
I am waiting for some new men's products. I admit I'm saturated with stuff for the ladies at present. =-)
I am somewhat confused about the 2000 more items added.... I checked it out and didn't see anything new. My guess is they are old products, or they are counting items that have been added since... When?
I have to admit, the way DAZ puts items on sale sometimes baffles me. I mean, that massive dump of items over this past weekend: what was up with that? Why wouldn't you spread those out a bit? (And, you know, put more of them in on days when you actually have sales staff in the office, just in case something goes wrong?) And why on earth would you put Slosh's SPEX and Dogz' Steel Frame Specs into the store within three or four days of each other?
The ways of the DAZ business model are mysterious to behold...
I saw the Title, wandered off to the store, added stuff to my cart and bought it. Was that not the reason for the thread?
Greetings,
Of course that was the point of the post! Off to do the same, myself... ;)-- Morgan
Makes no never mind to me. I have zero interest in buying content. Tools to make content on the other hand I buy. Sadly they hardly ever seem to go on sale. But when they do, oh boy!
Any one remember when sales were something special? Now they are so constant they over lap. I don't even read the sales emails anymore, I just delete them.
With the amount of new items and sales they have been throwing at us lately - I must admit I am kind of thankful for a breather ;D
It's not just Daz that does this and it's been happening for the last several years now.
I don't think I've purchased a hard drive that wasn't on sale in the last 10 years but I used to have to shop around to find a sale or maybe even wait a week or two. Now I just walk into Best Buy and find the one that's in the size I want that's on sale.
And don't get me started on Bed Bath & Beyond coupons! We have a whole forests worth of the things sitting in our mail basket and we shop there maybe once every couple of months.
Yes me likes my toolbox. Generic milk-me content. No thanks!
Same here. They send me coupons and I don't even attempt to redeem them anymore.
And lastly, I would like to know what the new 2000 items are, since I would just review those to see if anything was worth grabbing. I don't want to scroll through 50 pages to try and see if anything wasn't there before!
I can't complain about the prolific sales since or coupons since I regularly use both. =-)
I'd would love an autobuy feature. When x item gets 50% off, I could set my store preferences to buy it.
Ooops - and what do you do if (IF) there is the PA sale and on the last day EVERYTHING goes 50% off and the autobuy buys everything from your wishlist? - it would blast my wallet for sure. LOL!
Please NO! My poor credit card couldn't handle it ;)
Thing is not every business is sale happy. My business avoids sales unless we are missing forecast or are overstocked on things...sales train buyers to only buy when things are on sale. Which is how it works here, who buys anything if it's not at least 51% off? I tend to wait till 75% off, but that was when I was buying content. Now I'm not even sure that would move me . . .
I'll buy at the 30% intro-discount if it's something I think I'll use before it's likely to hit a 50%-off sale or if I want to encourage more products like it. I'll sometimes buy fast-grabs at 70%-off if they're things I didn't consider worth it to me at earlier prices or didn't want (like scenery and prop sets for genres I don't work in) or that I have an outside chance of kit-bashing into something useful (some skimpwear). During special events it's great to buy stuff at 50%-off that I'd've gotten even if it'd been 30%-off, but far more often I'm buying things to stay on a discount-train in the hopes that things I'll like will pop up later . . . and if at the end of the sale the ratio of wanted items bought to maybe-sorta-potential-kitbashing stuff bought is too nasty I'll wind up returning a bunch of it.
As for DAZ's sale-crazed customer-base, DAZ did try to fix that a couple of years ago . . . it didn't work out well. :shut:
Ooops - and what do you do if (IF) there is the PA sale and on the last day EVERYTHING goes 50% off and the autobuy buys everything from your wishlist? - it would blast my wallet for sure. LOL!
Heh! That is true. What a calamity. I guess you would have to only put things you really wanted on the autobuy list. =-)
The ways of the DAZ business model are mysterious to behold...
Well put - This makes me chuckle. I sometimes wish I could attend a M.B.A. class that would explain it too me. I am intrigued.
I do read my Daz newsletters and click on links and go buy stuff!
so it works
I read all the shop catalogues that come in my letterbox too
thank God most are personal shoppers only!
Heh! That is true. What a calamity. I guess you would have to only put things you really wanted on the autobuy list. =-)
Autobuy on discount - LOL I hope you are not a day trader! Its the reverse of placing a sell "stop-loss" trigger.
Heh! That is true. What a calamity. I guess you would have to only put things you really wanted on the autobuy list. =-)
Autobuy on discount - LOL I hope you are not a day trader! Its the reverse of placing a sell "stop-loss" trigger.
One of the stores that I frequent does allow people to pre-order items like this. It is quite useful, and I don't have to constantly go to the store and see if content is being sold at a price that I can afford.. So preordering at discount does work for me. It may not work so well for the vendors though. =-)
DAZ's store strategy really kind of eludes me. Right now, just got paid, on the first, and nothing really new, since the release of Charlize which I do not need.. Seems strange that new content is not offered when people are most likely to have money in their wallets.
Oh well, its good for my wallet anyway.
I have to admit, the way DAZ puts items on sale sometimes baffles me. I mean, that massive dump of items over this past weekend: what was up with that? Why wouldn't you spread those out a bit? (And, you know, put more of them in on days when you actually have sales staff in the office, just in case something goes wrong?) And why on earth would you put Slosh's SPEX and Dogz' Steel Frame Specs into the store within three or four days of each other?
The ways of the DAZ business model are mysterious to behold...
Maybe they want to sell as much as possible before they're forced to add tax to the prices. That will probably reduce sales a bit.