Things that would improve the store
Crystal's Renders
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1) The ability to not see stuff I already own. I have 1300 products and, especially for the "minor stuff" (like platinum club items) I don't remember every one that I've purchased. So I either have to click on the product to see if it says "purchased", or actually look in Studio. It slows me down in the store, and if I'm slowed down I spend less. And the store is full of pictures designed to entice people to buy. It's not in Daz's interest to spend time enticing me to buy stuff I already own!
2) The ability to sort by discount percentage. I imagine Daz would rather I buy stuff that's full price, but I'm confident I would spend more money if this search was available.
3) The ability to exclude platinum club items from my store browsing and searching. Since I can already view either all the Platinum Club's items or all the $1.99 Platinum items, I would find it really helpful to be able to view the opposite. For example, yesterday I browsed through all the Platinum Club's hair (and there's a lot of good stuff there!). I then wanted to check to see what other hair was out there. I couldn't, without either wading through the Platinum Club stuff I had already looked at or setting the search to start with high priced items and descend down. That isn't great for me - since I'm not using Studio professionally, I'm inclined to buy the cheaper (for example) ponytail hair rather than the expensive ponytail hair, even if the expensive stuff if demonstrably better. (There are exceptions, of course. Stonemason's stuff comes to mind.)
4) The ability to only view the 2.99 products in the Platinum Club. Not a big deal, since a sort there by price starting with high priced items does that for you. But it seems clumsy to have a 1.99 filter without a 2.99 filter.
In a perfect world I'd be able to do a filter range: show me items that cost between two user entered prices. Or discounts.
(If I can already do any of this, and merely couldn't figure out how then A) It probably isn't easy enough to figure out how to do and B) Please tell me! :) )
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I'll second that.
The ability to hide items you don't ever want to buy anyway would be nice too, but not so easy to make I guess.
5) Notification when wish list items go on sale
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I'll second that.
I don't think any store does that.
These two, above all else.
I don't know much about Magento, but I'd hope that (3) wouldn't be hard to do. I fear that (1) might be more challenging. I suspect that the reason DAZ haven't done it is because the database query needed to implement it could be very slow to execute. That would result in poor performance both for the individual user and for the site as a whole.
There are ways it could be implemented quite efficiently, but I don't know how well Magento lends itself to such approaches.
One other feature that might be nice would be if the wishlist could be displayed in the same kind of view as product pages, with all the filtering controls that that implies. I'd love to be able to filter my huge wishlist by a particular vendor, exclude Platinum items etc. Searching in-page for "special price" has gotten a bit old.
I'd like to generalize this one.
The store can already show us "only Platinum Club items, only for Genesis, and only compatible with Studio 4.6" I want a list that's "everything that's for figures other than Genesis, and nothing that's only compatible with Studio 4.6". They've given us a show-me-this option; I would be better served with a show-me-everything-except-this option. (Or, optionally, a show-me-these option, for example everything for Aiko 3 and everything for BelBel in the same search results.)
Greetings,
Just to note, and toot my own horn a little, some of these capabilities are available using http://www.3dwishlist.com/demo/ , my web app.
The UI's not awesome, I freely acknowledge, but I'm trying to make it better.
I also have the back-end for search-by-vendor AND exclude-by-vendor working, I just have to figure out how to show it in the UI. It also can email you when items on your wishlist go on sale.
There's a whole bunch of sort-by options, including discount percentage.
-- Morgan
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It's great to hear about search-by-vendor being in the works. What I'd most like is to be able to sort my wishlist by PA or even just see the PA and DAZ3D names alongside the products in my wishlist, since many of the sales are PA-specific and many of the coupons are DO-specific.
You can always put in a feature request and they will determine feasibility and if it can be done or not and roll it out in the future
Why? Is it really more attractive to buy an item that’s normally $100 but on sale for 40% off (sale price $60) than it is to buy an item that’s normally $20 but on sale for 30% off (sale price $14)?
Hell yes. I rarely purchase anything that's less than 50% off. I would absolutely LOVE to see "sorted by discount" in the "sort by" dropdown.
Also, I'd like to see items purchased removed automatically from my wishlist like they are on Renderosity and RDNA.
Putting in feature request is the way to go.. They can't hardly guess what everyone wants. If they do feature request then they know a majority of customers want this action and can put that into the development stages. But, the only way they know is to do the request. Most the development team don't follow the forums.
5): Bring back the ability to see when a sale ends for any particular item.
Of course, this will never happen. :down:
I do a ton of online shopping and have yet to see when something is going to go off sale.
Check out Rend sales sometime. Most of them do.
Gus
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I'm working on auto-complete for vendor names in vendor filtering right now. I wish I could match anywhere in the name, but it's not looking easy so far.
-- Morgan
p.s. The answer is 'Yiff', but it's okay that most people don't know that. ;).
Check out Rend sales sometime. Most of them do.
They do indeed, but I can't help wishing they would put a similar amount of effort into their catalog browser. 5 years on and it's still a very clunky interface with no way of determining which items are compatible with which. Being able to search by figure instead of by category would cut down the time spent searching by a thousand fold.
RuntimeDNA also shows sale end dates. This is a very useful feature which makes financial planning/budgeting a good deal easier.
Herald is absolutely right on the Renderosity interface. Searching for content on G2F/V6, for example, is a monumental pain in the gluteous maximus.
Cheers,
Alex.
Greetings,
Just to note, vendor search (include AND exclude) is live on http://3dwishlist.com/demo ... You can give it a list of vendors to include, and it'll show items by any of those vendors. I had to make a choice between items that contain all the vendors (i.e. items that have both DAZ 3D and blondie9999 as vendor) or ANY of the vendors, and I figured that it might be easier to create lists of vendors to check out. This behavior is different if you're logged in and looking at your own wishlist, instead of the global list of items. No good reason, I just ran into a bug that made it impossible (so far) to do an 'any' match on vendor for wishlisted items.
So for example, if you want to see specials for both Dogz and Stonemason, but nothing that's owned by DAZ 3D (cuts out 47 items!) you could go here. (Although if you've selected/deselected any discounts it'll potentially alter the numbers.)
The UI is crap, sorry about that. I'm just no good at design.
-- Morgan
From a tech perspective, anti-spam measurements for registration. Their databases must be filled with gobs of spam accounts by now, which will only bog down the DB the more it fills.
They don't? I guess you guys don't care about ISO90000 certification, then.
The company set up the forum as a communications channel (it doesn't matter who the communication is between) - the average Joe is going to assume the channel is for use in communicating with the company. Every other company-owned forum I read has company reps not just reading the forum, but taking part on it on company time - for this very reason.
Yes, having all requests go through the same entry point into the process is also good ISO90000 behaviour - but the person who makes the request doesn't need to be the person who files the official support ticket. The company rep who reads the forum can do that, and the company will still be within ISO90000 requirements.
And once you've got your ISO90000 certification, big companies will start taking you seriously. I do believe that's something DAZ3D wants...?
Yea. Except that the sales (at least the general ones) usually continue up to a month longer than announced, so you really dont know when they stop anyway. But at least you know that the last day isn't the last... :)
They do have email confirmation on signup, but bots easily get around that. They should also use CAPTCHA which is much more effective against bots.
It has become slower yes, but I don't think I've ever experienced it to be more than 30 seconds. Just tested it, took 15 seconds this time.
I'd like a way to be notified when content I'm interested in is available in the store.
A lot of the mailers are one size fits all, and yet, I have zero interest in skimpwear or ladies content..
Would love to be notified when Mens' content is available or favorite vendor's stores go on sale.
Maybe this could be accomplished by customers indicating what interests them in some way.
I don't think any store does that.
Well one has to be the first.
HiveWire puts an icon on items you've already bought, technically the code that does this could be used for hiding the item instead. The resources this feature uses might be countered by the ones saved by not displaying so many items.
How would you define a spammer at registration? Like all members they sign up with an email address and a password.
Greetings,
How would you define a spammer at registration? Like all members they sign up with an email address and a password.You define a spammer at registration as someone who is signing up via an automated process ('bot') rather than a human. The test to tell a human and computer apart is typically called a 'Turing Test'. Thus a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, or CAPTCHA.
This would help. That said, I don't see MUCH spammage in the forums, so it's going pretty well right now.
-- Morgan
Naturally I'd love to have a date showing when an item goes off sale. That shoudn't be that hard to fix imo.
Then I have two other things:
1. Sometimes I fill my cart before logging in, then it happens more often than not that the cart is empty again, and when I try to refill it I get an error message that I can only buy one of a kind. The only way around that is to add a new item. Then the cart often shows up with the items in it, and I can do my shopping. But sometimes not even that works and I have to clear the cash, change the browser and Bob knows what!
2. An advanced search function, so that I may type M6 + shoes and see what footwere there is available for him. Or vehicles - cars to see everything but cars.