Another Dazaholic Needs an Intervention Thread - Pro Bundle Edition

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  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,800

    Oh my, I only have 3 G8 Pro Bundles. sad

    Now I feel so .......... so .... inadequate,

  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    I've never really seen a bundle and thought "I need to have all of it" or even 50%+ so usually just buy bits I like when they're deeply discounted later (or if there's a fancy deal).

    So I guess that the wider your interests or needs the more the bundles appeal. laugh

    I do own 2 G8 pro bundles though, plus 2 G3, 1 G2 and M4 (all non G8 bundles were free or "free").

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    DustRider said:

    Oh my, I only have 3 G8 Pro Bundles. sad

    Now I feel so .......... so .... inadequate,

    Nah, you should feel very, very smart wink  for being critically selective. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    edited May 2020
    Diomede said:

    At least I am not alone.  Thank you to those who tried to make me feel better.  And yes, Misty, I got a purple banner for Aubrey.

    The really sad part is...

    ... I still feel I need a Mary Wickes Pro Bundle and a Thomas Mitchell Pro Bundle 

    Amazing or surprising maybe, I remember both of their faces after not seeing them on television since before 1975.

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  • MimicMollyMimicMolly Posts: 2,212
    I have 17 G8 Pro Bundles. As far as I know, I got Ellithia 8 Pro for free with Dain (which I wouldn't have otherwise bought because I only liked him, but had Ellithia on my wishlist because I didn't have enough to get her when she was released), and Victoria 8 Pro was once offered for like $20. Most of mine were the earlier ones that offered a lot more Freebies.
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,321

    Okay, shoot me, I collected them all. Even the Centaurs, but I think they were free when I got them. And with Daz's offers, I have collected a majority of the other bundles from Genesis 3 and 2. 

  • ColinFrenchColinFrench Posts: 648

    This makes me surprised that I get those purple bar discounts since I only have 7 G8 pro bundles.

  • mmalbertmmalbert Posts: 412

    Just have one -- the Floyd 8 Pro Bundle, for which the store tells me I paid $1.93 back in February. Clearly too good a deal to pass up!

    I pick up the base figures though and have quite a few. Another 10 are in my wishlist.

    Pro bundles are expensive; most of the time I'd only use the figure and maybe one or two items from the bundle, so they're just not practical for me. 

  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 787

    This makes me surprised that I get those purple bar discounts since I only have 7 G8 pro bundles.

    I have 8 and did not get it. Maybe its counting older generations?

    Or they calculated the cut prior to monday when i bought 5.

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,063
    edited May 2020

    All except Aubrey's, Rynne's, Aiko's & Toon Dwayne's. Starter Bundles for Aiko & Toon Dwayne.

    Penny's, Tika's, Mika's, & Karyssa's Pro Bundles were free. The rest I purchased during their release promos.

    I buy Core Figures because I want high quality skins, morphs, & HD Add-Ons, and the Pro Bundles are usually configured with banners in a way that it's cheaper to get them than not.

    Favourite female skins are Babina, Zelara, Alawa, Kala, Tasha, Edie, Bridget, CJ, Leisa, & Monique (wish she didn't have eye bags).

    Male favourite skins are Dain, Nix, Valentino, Dasan, Floyd, Vladimir, Tristan, Jonathan, & Christian; so, the males have definitely benefitted from the longer run of G8.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    Wolfwood said:

    This makes me surprised that I get those purple bar discounts since I only have 7 G8 pro bundles.

    I have 8 and did not get it. Maybe its counting older generations?

    Or they calculated the cut prior to monday when i bought 5.

    I have 5 pro bundles for G8 but have only gotten 1 purple banner on the offerening of a new G8 pro bundle in the last year. I also own a few G8 base characters. I think DAZ must use some combination of G8 Pro bundles, Starter bundles, and Base characters that totals more than some number but certainly more than 10 (I'd guess). Regardless, it makes no sense for me to buy products I can't afford just to make future products more affordable to me since I'm not sure if the added discount is sufficient anyway. I know I read a lot of "not a great deal" on every new pro bundle release from folk that have said they have all or most all of them. 

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,085

    I have all 69 G8 Pro Bundles, as well as the pro bundles for every other official character back through v4 (except in the cases where only a smaller bundle was released) except for Dragon 3, so I haven't been able to use one of those free bundle offers in forever.  My problem at this point is there are hardly any DAZ originals left that I don't have, less than 2000 out of the 34,999 in the entire store, so those parts of the offers have become eually lackluster as well.  

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,037

    I only have the Horse2 Pro  Bundle ,Centuar 3&8 Pro Bundles ,Toon Generation 2,8 &4 Pro Bundles ........Toons and Critters make me Happy!!

  • LindaBLindaB Posts: 180

    I have 59! I'm worse than I thought I was.

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057
    edited May 2020
    Cybersox said:

    I have all 69 G8 Pro Bundles, as well as the pro bundles for every other official character back through v4 (except in the cases where only a smaller bundle was released) except for Dragon 3, so I haven't been able to use one of those free bundle offers in forever.  My problem at this point is there are hardly any DAZ originals left that I don't have, less than 2000 out of the 34,999 in the entire store, so those parts of the offers have become eually lackluster as well.  

    Daz should just gift you the remaining approx. 2000 DO's that you don't have, for being such an awesome customer!

    laugh

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  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,561

    surprised i even had 3 (brute, elios, vlad).

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,945

    Just the one.

    May be tempted to make it 2 if the discount is adequate (80%+). Most Pro bundles have a great deal of stuff I'd never use.

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,073
    edited May 2020

    I don't have a single one.*

    No matter how steep the discount, if I take the price and divide it by the number of featured items that I'd consider true must-haves (and not just might-use-somedays) the endprice has never been good enough.

    And I use 3rd party anatomical elements, so I have no need for those, either.

     

    * ETA: Actually, now that I think about it: I do have the Minotaur 6 HD Bundle, which doesn't have "pro" in the title but did come with anatomical elements. And I have the Supersuit Pro Bundle. I got them both for about $12 each. Plus a few Gen4 Pro bundles that I picked up as freebies.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    my pro musts pretty much stick to the iconics, aiko

    3  generations to be iconic

  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 787

    Hi my name is Wolfwood and it's been only 15 minutes since i bought 14 G8 Pro Bundles.

    Do i mean 14 total?

    No.

    14 in a single purchase devil

    I blame it to stacking discounts, it make them so cheap angel

    Last week i was wondering when would i join the 10+ Pro bundle club, now i'm over 20 indecision

     

  • ArtsyDragonArtsyDragon Posts: 682

    This made me curious so I checked.. I am hopeless.

    Pro 8 = 45
    Pro 7 = 25
    Pro 6 = 13
    Pro 5 = 9

    Not counting starter packs, character bundles, and individual characters I broke down and purchased independently. 

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,192

    My name is Gordig, and I have 11 pro bundles sitting in my cart. 

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,073
    Gordig said:

    My name is Gordig, and I have 11 pro bundles sitting in my cart. 

    Relax... don't do it!  

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,622
    edited June 2020

    I am resisting 

    Cromwell discounts so nicely and there is a 25% off giftcard to be had then all those pro bundles

    but

    damn I am not even grabbing M7 pro for 1.99 have half his bundle but that's cheap just for the hair I don't have

    we will see if I make it through the day ...

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  • ZyloxZylox Posts: 787
    edited June 2020

    I liked how someone else listed theirs. As you can tell, I am an amateur.

    Pro 8 - 1

    Pro 7 - 10

    Pro 6 - 0

    Pro 5 - 5

    Pro 4 - 1

    Pro Horse - 1(and two centaur 7)

    It is easy for me to resist, I have spent all but $7 of my DAZ budget this month, lol.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,622

    I did build a cart with a gift certificate 

    but Aussie dollar so bad the final price made me cancel and return

    good as the discounts are I am not in a good place financially losing 30K off my capital I live on during Covid19 surprise with the added currency difference

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,904

    Now I feel like I‘m missing out on something, the only pro bundles I have are the M7 and V7 ones from today ... Just couldn‘t resist the pricing here, although I own both base figures. Now I‘m wondering, why is it you guys prefer the pro bundles to the basic figures so much? 

  • RiverSoft ArtRiverSoft Art Posts: 6,659

    64 8 Pro Bundles.  Is it sad that my first thought was "cool!  a power of 2?"  I must be a geek. laugh

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,085
    tsroemi said:

    Now I feel like I‘m missing out on something, the only pro bundles I have are the M7 and V7 ones from today ... Just couldn‘t resist the pricing here, although I own both base figures. Now I‘m wondering, why is it you guys prefer the pro bundles to the basic figures so much? 

    Primarily because, once all the discounts are figured in, a Pro Bundle don't cost much more than buying the stand-alone base figure.  On introduction, the figures by themselves (without the HD add-on) will usually run in the neighborhood of $18, whereas for a regular Pro Bundle buyer, the Pro Bundles are as cheap as $35, so you get the figure for about $6, plus a dozen other items, a significant discount on the HD, and a lot of other discounts like the purple bar offers, not to mention that you have to buy a least one Pro Bundle for each gender to get the anatomic bit add-ons.  Honestly, about half of the time I buy Pro Bundles with characters I don't even care for simply because I save so much on everything else that the bundles are practically free.

        

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,904
    Cybersox said:
    tsroemi said:

    Now I feel like I‘m missing out on something, the only pro bundles I have are the M7 and V7 ones from today ... Just couldn‘t resist the pricing here, although I own both base figures. Now I‘m wondering, why is it you guys prefer the pro bundles to the basic figures so much? 

    Primarily because, once all the discounts are figured in, a Pro Bundle don't cost much more than buying the stand-alone base figure.  On introduction, the figures by themselves (without the HD add-on) will usually run in the neighborhood of $18, whereas for a regular Pro Bundle buyer, the Pro Bundles are as cheap as $35, so you get the figure for about $6, plus a dozen other items, a significant discount on the HD, and a lot of other discounts like the purple bar offers, not to mention that you have to buy a least one Pro Bundle for each gender to get the anatomic bit add-ons.  Honestly, about half of the time I buy Pro Bundles with characters I don't even care for simply because I save so much on everything else that the bundles are practically free.

        

    Thanks for explaining! Right now, I do see that the Pro bundles are incredibly cheap, and I‘m thinking of actually buying some of them, instead of the base figures I wanted. Still, it does seem ... weird, I don‘t know, to cram a bunch of clothes, characters and so forth into my library that I don‘t really care for ... Well I guess I could just not download the items I don‘t like. Hm, will think about it some more. Thanks again!

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