There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 2
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Yeah, I saw your post after. I have BB, have used it. Imo, it's pretty useful.
Wishlisted. Thanks.
I really wish they had sales on the non-best selling items. We keep getting the same products over and over with the same PAs mostly. And now they will always be "best selling" because they are offered so often. How are other products ever going to become best sellers if they are not included in daily sales over and over? And the grab bag hasn't changed at all. And you need three punches and a new item in your cart and 10 items to get the price even close to previous grab bags or Daz+ for a day or whatever they change the name to. Most days I fill my cart with a ton of things, realize my cart is too expensive and the the thing I want to cull is the new item which of course raises the price on everything else so I end up deleting everything but freebies and something close to a dollar. Anyway, January, they'll probably start a New Year"s sale, and as we all know, there's always another sale and it seems that often the random flash sales are better than official ones.
I posted in the DIM thread but it seems that DIM server may have gone down just a bit ago.
To be honest the "best selling" and "popular" categories were always suspect to me and I never trust them... And not just in DAZ Store but as a general rule.
Who decides what is popular or best selling, and on what criteria? *Tinfoil sounds* I just see that as stores trying to sell whatever they are trying to sell.
*Tinfoil sounds* Haha! :D This sale is running on autopilot.. I really thought something would happen by now to shake it up. Instead, it's just there, the same as it's been for days. I'm thinking it might be extended through tomorrow. Oh well. I have D+ coupons and they expire today. I'm getting something!
Apart from "Best Selling", it has been the same since Black Friday = Nothing to get excited about.
The Daz+ Coupons did get the discount for the whole cart low enough, but otherwise I have been buying carts at less than $2
If this is the new "Best of the Best" what are we going to get in January/February?...
"MegaSales... 10% off Debut New, 15% off Featured Artists if one has $100 worth Debut New in the cart..."
This is a possibility! :D
You laugh, but this is pretty spot on until the March Madness sales :)
Less than $2 carts... Me, too! There are some items in the sale that I want/need and per coupon terms, one cart will be at least $12. At least I've got the 3 punches.
New megasales: Haha! The forum would explode. It would not be pretty.
Flash sales. There are usually sporadic, tasty flash sales to tide us over.
the advent thing has been a real flop for me. Old stuff -V4 for the most part. The 2.99 items I dont want. How long is that lasting anyhow? there are boxes until Jan. 2 right now. I, too, have been waiting for the big sale to happen, been buying $1 plus items to keep the punchcards full, but I'm not about to do that past tomorrow. Being New Years Day, One would think something new would hit the sales lot, plus a renewal of the DAZ+ coupons.
One can hope, I guess, but my patience has worn out now.
I am also getting tired/bored with the combo of sameness and not-great deals. As far as I can tell, not one item in any of the categories has changed. Maybe I shouldn't buy any more < $3 items to keep up my punch discount since I won't be able to make a big purchase until this coming weekend. Daz will probably end the punch promo before then. But I'd still be bored if I could splurge today.
So today's shopping is limited to re-checking the 2017-20 category, to see if I want to wishlist any more older DOs in hopes they show up free on the Advent Calendar.
I've been pretty happy with what I got in both less than $2 carts and the advent calendar. I got a nice mix of G2, G3, even some G8. I got stuff off my wishlist, stuff I've wanted but waffled about buying. Got https://www.daz3d.com/exmachina-wings-for-genesis-8 for free in the calendar and I was thrilled!
Sure, the Big Sale as we've had in other years would have been great, but I can't complain about this one. And who knows what tomorrow will bring?
I can't entirely complain about December's acquisitions. I did well on the low end. There were only two days when I didn't get a legitimate wishlist thing as an Advent freebie (the first day, when I wasn't prepared but still got something I had considered in the past; and one random day a few days ago even though I still had some apparently qualifying items on my wishlist - I added some new appropriate-era DOs to my wishlist and have been offered something from that new group every day since). The PA freebies were great - thanks PAs!. Also, several of the $2.99 items were totally worth the $2.99 - and certainly worth the slightly-less-than-$2 that they were in the cart when you had three punches. There were enough sufficiently interesting new items that my wishlist exploded from about 10 to over 100 - not all of which were G8 DOs for the Advent game. But on the opposite side of the ledger, there were rarely new things so exciting that I jumped up and bought them at ordinary first-day price, and there was a distinct lack of inspiring sales; especially a lack of stacking opportunities, which is what led to my massive buys through the token era. True, the full punch card was worth almost as much as 8 tokens and had the additional value of not being depleted by using it, but without the stacking discounts, I would put a few things in the cart and think, meh, and go another day with a $2 buy. Also, what sales did turn up did not rotate enough. The ones that are active today offer a reasonable final cost, but I already bought what I wanted from them on the first day they were offered a few days ago. So, yet another day when I took my Advent freebie and the $2.99 item and called it a day.
Maybe tomorrow? Happy New Years, by the way.
I picked up Ex Machine Wings a while back. I think you'll enjoy them. I have had fun playing with them off and on.
After thinking it over a bit more, I am actually pretty happy with what I have picked up, given my super-limited budget.* I have added 2 more hairs to my collection, one from Lightning, and one by adding to wishlist just last night - & it showed up as Advent Freebie today.
Also been putting the inexpensive V4/M4 things I bought, plus ones I haven't used for years, through the RSSY Gen4 to G3 converter. I highly recommend the tool. I had to force-convert nearly everything but the added fit morphs are great and once converted to G3, clothing will autofit to G8. Yes those morphs work with G8 as well as G3.
*Replaced a vehicle & delays getting husband's social security & disability set up.
So what's considered a prety good sale on gift cards? And do those usually happen in March? (Everybody keeps talking about the awesomeness in March, and my curiosity is piqued!!)
The "10% off if you buy stuff you don't want to go with it" was less than inspiring. There've only been a couple Debut New items that caught my eye all month, and one of them was only because that universal horns thing for g8 has a version in progress for g9 according to the product page. THAT one I might actually get new. (The other one I wishlisted because I'd like it, but it's lack isn't currently holding up my ability to do stuff.)
10% off a gift card even without buy-in is pretty common (once a month), 20% off is more rare and usually requires some buy-in, but if the buy-in is cheap enough or even something one wants, then it's pretty good.
That euro to dollar exchange rate is looking good lately, too. :D Though when I moved to Finland in 2013, it was like $1.40 per euro. My money meant nothing at the time.
They seem to also favor over $300 bracket for top tier discounts as well, though last deal with FT2 was pretty decent at 28% off.
Yeah, the exchange rate was down a while, but now it seems to be on the rise again
Yeah, those I don't even look as I use prepaid MasterCards for my purchases and EU has limited them to max 150EUR.
Playing with them a little. Yes, impressive :D I have a wing thing, anyway - Lots of wings! Is good! Glad you got good stuff, too.
I'll keep those converters in mind. Thanks! :) I've been looking into clones for clothing support. Script is likely more efficient. I'm looking most strongly at https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all so that I can maybe snag some of the nicer G9 gear.
Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year to all!
today's stash
The Mystic Gorge, The Keep, Space Dock, new item FG Banquet Hall
total $22.95 with 3 punches
I used instancify on the Banquet Hall reducing it 45% but it actually used more VRAM?
GPU-Z 8742MB before was 8056MB I think it renders faster though,
(with denoiser and 10 iterations get 15 secs a frame}
still makes populating it hard for an animation
at least in DAZ studio
Any last-minute chance that anyone knows what the Daz coupon codes for December were? Daz always changes them to the new month hours before Daz midnight (which is also my midnight).
12_23Save6 and 12_23DAZPLUS
Yaaay!!! Two hours until I get new coupons!
Happy New Year to you too, Paula! :)
Looks this might be my final animation of 2023. Wow. I hope 2024 turns out this many cool videos! I had a Great Year!!!
...nice.
I generally liked the advent calendar. I spent more in December here than I usually do per month, but I also got almost four times that amount in free items just from that promotion. I think it could be tightened up and tweaked (for example, not offering add-ons to those who don't own the base product), but it was a nice thing that helped me clear out a decent chunk of my wishlist.