Avalanche Block question
BeeMKay
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Please hunor me if my question is stupid.:red: I'm not a native English speaker, and have trouble understanding the following sales term for the new Avalanche sale.
Buy a new release from block 1 get a total 20% off the new "Good & Evil Bundle"
Buy a new release from block 1 and block 2 get a total 40% off the new "Good & Evil Bundle"
Buy a new release from block 1, 2, and 3 get a total 60% off the new "Good & Evil Bundle"
Buy a new release from block 1, 2, 3, and 4 get a total 80% off the new "Good & Evil Bundle"
Does this mean that I have to buy items from all four blocks at the same time to qualify for the 80% discount on the Evil bundle?
Or does the discount also apply when I buy items from each block on different days, like, items from block 1&2 today, and item from block 3 tomorrow, etc?
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I assume Block 3 will be released tomorrow, and Block 4 Sunday, so they don't have to be bought on the same day.
OK... what exactly is in the Good & Evil Bundle? Even keeping spending to a minimum one item per block in the Avalanche sale, we're talking around $40-$60 ($10-$15 per item, give or take) just to get the 80% discount, and I don't know what the bundle even has in it. That's a big chunk of money (for me at least) for a discount on an unknown bundle. Assuming, of course, there's something in each block I want.
I really hate these "Buy stuff now for a discount on something later" sales, especially when there's no information on what that "something" is.
We don't know - but if you don't want any of the items in a tier, or in any tie, don't buy them. Obviously the hope is that a promotion like this will prompt you to buy rather than WL something you are on the fence about, but it isn't trying to strong-arm you into buying stuff you don't want at all.
Will it be a set for women only?
Perhaps it's a set I've been wanting for my males and in that case I'd love to grab the discount....
Exactly - if I want to drag this month's budget to the finish I can't speculate on a discount for something else that I may or not be interested in.
What if you don't buy from block 1 but buy from blocks 2 and 4..do you still get a 40% discount, or is it required to buy something from each block even if there is nothing you need or want?
It's a bundle so it probably will have items by the artist that doesn't include morphs in his products, so I probably won't want any of it anyway.
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Unfortunately I like the items from the blocks so far. Damn.
Btw shouldn't that promotion give us a discount on Monique and / or Keiko?
Or are they gonna drain us with this sale first and then release their figure bundles to get a chunk of my food budget - OK my sweets budget - again? ;D
Sigh, i hope we could get a few more Infos.
I would assume it has something to do with the little pic of the two women in the top-right corner of the sales page. Looks like it could be a combo set of a sorceress and a princess or such.
LOL
It's good for DAZ because some people will buy things they wouldn't buy otherwise in order to get the promotion. It's evil because there's no indication of what the actual price will be, so there's no guarantee that even 80% will make it a good deal.
For what it's worth, there's a picture of two women right there in the promotion image. One is wearing a "Maleficent" type dress and the other a different medieval type dress. I'd say it would very misleading if those weren't the products in the actual bundle.
Richard Haseltine: It may not seem like it, but it actually does strong-arm you into buying. If I want the best possible discount on the bundle, I HAVE to buy something from each block. If the bundle is something I want, everything's cool, except now I have a bunch of stuff I didn't really want. If the bundle isn't something I want, then I've spent a good chunk of money I don't have (or SHOULD'VE put towards a bill) on stuff I was only marginally interested in (seriously, there isn't anything in the first two blocks I really want). If I don't buy from each block, and the bundle turns out to be something I want, then I lose out on a solid discount (80% is a rare discount, even here at DAZ).
In the end it becomes a crapshoot.
If I had more information about the bundle, I could make a better choice.
As it stands, I've blown my entire free spending budget (Ramen Noodles for the next week) on other sales anyway, so the whole thing is moot now.
Cybersox13: The picture doesn't necessarily represent what's in the bundle, exactly. Is it the dresses? The characters? The textures? The hairs? Some combination of these?
20% for each block you buy from, so you would get 40% off.
I guessed as much too. Hence yet another fantasy set for women of the kind I've already got, so I'll pass on it. Especially taking in mind that the Swedish krona has been dropping against most other currencies lately so everything has became more expensive + that I have quite a few 3d items sitting on the disk which I haven't been playing with recently. :-)
Hold on, block 1 was released yesterday — I don't remember seeing a promo for this avalanche sale until this morning, is that right? Are DAZ juggling sales again? :-/
Everything always goes on sale sooner or later anyway. I'm not buying to get the discounts strictly because of two things (other than not knowing what's in the bundle, because that's one obvious BIG reason)
1. I don't know how many items are in the bundle
2. With the money I'd spend to get the discounts, I might want to buy only the specific items from the bundle that I want- and it could be cheaper.
However, I will buy things if I would get them anyway (like Richard said.) And if it works out, fine.
Nope would rather spend my Money on Faveral's Birthday sale. Easy simple straight up sale. And besides if the bundle ends up being something I want I will wishlist it until it goes on sale again or I have the money upfront to get it.
LOL
I think you hammered the nail on the head. I didn't really notice that image on first look, but based on previous DAZ experience, I would say it will be a fairy tale type bundle of gowns, hair, and that sort of thing.
protip: if you right click on the image and select "view background image" you get to see an uncropped version of the picture.
The only new items I could see in the image were the outfits. The hairs are already in the store.
If it includes matching male outfits count me in. There hasn't been a good fairytale prince outfit since David 3
thx for the tip.
nice Outfit so far but if its only 2 outfits.....
All hopeless Dazaholics :lol:
Nice outfits, I May have to buy even without the discount :lol:
sigh this is a very bad joke.
I bought Yesterday from Block one :(
Seems to be.
I bought from both Blocks 1 & 2 and was just about to buy something from Block 3 when I saw this thread.
In the last "buy this get..." Offer was the info that the items must be in the cart but not now.
And now this Info
It's a little late and i tink a lot of refud requests are incoming
Now I'm really confused...I was going to buy an item from Block 3 so I could get a 20% discount on the Good and Evil bundle and also a discount on one of the additional daily items (from the Lilith and Lee items)...won't those items be off sale when the Good and Evil bundle comes out though?
Seriously, I long for the days when DAZ's sales made sense.
hm the info posting is deleted ?
Just a heads up.
I think Crissie is mistaken. This sale cannot possibly work only that way; if it did, the Good and Evil bundle would already be in the store.
This sale seems to be set up the way that they did back when they had the Gated Courtyard/something-female sale (don't remember what that was). You had to buy something each day building up to that, with the possibility of getting the item for free if you purchased enough. But you had to purchase the items either on the day they came out, or the day after; they rotated off the sale page after that.
THAT SAID: they're not rotating items off the Avalanche sale page as yet, so it may be possible that you can purchase items all the way through, OR you can do it all at once, as Crissie mentions. But it makes no sense for the items to come out for four days in a row and for them then to then say, "Nope, sorry, you bought that the day it came out, so it doesn't count for this sale." People would be livid, and for once it would be entirely deserved.
It had seemed pretty clear to me that you would get 10% off the Good and Evil Bundle -- which isn't in the store until Monday -- for each item in each block that you buy, to a maximum of 20% per block. So let's say you buy the following:
Block 1: G2F Smart and Sassy Outfit, and Ultimate Natural for M6: 20% will be deducted from the price of the Good/Evil Bundle (the statement on the sale notes that you can't earn more than 20% off per block)
Block 2: G2F Freediver, and nothing else: additional 10% off for a total so far of 30% off
Block 3 (Saturday/today): Charlie hair and nothing else: additional 10% off for a total to that point of 40% off.
Block 4 (Sunday): whatever they are, let's say you buy two items, for an additional 20% off, or 10% each: you now have a total of 60% off of whatever the Good/Evil bundle is.
I think someone else from DAZ may need to step in and clarify things.
That's actually not how I read it at all, I saw it as you getting 20% off towards the Good and Evil bundle each time you buy anything from one of the four days leading up to it (so every time you buy at least one item each day, you get an additional 20% off for a maximum of 80% after the four days).
EDIT: Reading the response again, I think Crissie assumed the Good and Evil Bundle is already in the store. She was just explaining that normally you have to have all items in your cart at the same time for those sorts of discounts to work. We're probably doing it the right way, buying an item each day and at the end, the discounts will be calculated correctly.
Hmm.... you may be right. I'm not sure where I got the impression that there was both a minimum and a maximum, or a specific percentage per item. I just looked at the first email promoting the sale, and it doesn't say anything of the sort.
Like I said, someone needs to clarify exactly what's going on.
Hmm.... you may be right. I'm not sure where I got the impression that there was both a minimum and a maximum, or a specific percentage per item. I just looked at the first email promoting the sale, and it doesn't say anything of the sort.
Like I said, someone needs to clarify exactly what's going on.
The 20% limit is on the sales page itself, in details at the top of the page.