...is called "March Madness," and I think they may have gone insane. Holy crap! They are offering new products daily for $0.95. $0.66 for PC members! The sale price is good for one day only. Click on the big red button in the DAZ store to see the day's special. Today it's "Ollok," a pack for the Troll. But even if you don't have the troll, it's worth it, IMO, just for the nice Danie and Marforno set that's included. Regular price will be $18.95.

You have to check every day, because there will be new items each days, each one a one-day only sale. Of course, they're probably hoping you'll buy some other stuff while you're there, if only because charging $0.66 is kind of silly. But you don't have to. If you don't want to use PayPal, you can buy yourself a DAZ gift certificate, and use it a little at a time.

And no, I am not a DAZ groupie, or trying to advertize for them. It's a one-day only thing, and if your newsletter is delayed (as is very common) or you don't visit DAZ daily, you'll miss it.

Ohhh That is a true bargain

Hot diggidy...tanx fer the heads up 8-)

And a great way to zap those odd cents sitting in vouchers!

Thanks!! Did they just start today? Marque

Yes, it started today. There's a stickied announcement in the DAZ "Commons" forum. And I got the e-mail announcement this morning. Which is amazing, considering that I usually get DAZ announcements a week late. :-P

Thanks for the alert! Found I had an unused voucher from that whole V3 episode, so I got a great FREE new temple kind of place for Vicky to brandish her sword!

That must drive the credit card companies wild.

No, the credit card companies love it. Their official stance is that there is no minimum; merchants are supposed allow customers to charge any amount. Small purchases are a huge part of their business these days, with even McDonald's accepting credit cards.

It's the merchants who hate it. They get charged something like $0.55 per transaction, no matter the amount, so if you charge a $0.66 purchase, that takes a big bite out of their profit. They may even lose money on the transaction.

I'd say this promo is a case of quiet desperation turning into braying panic. ::::: Opera :::::

Doubtful, I think Daz is just fine. Just treating their customers right. Marque

What I don't understand about this is that DAZ must be aware they will have to pay for each CC charge and are taking the risk of having to make only $0.11 of profit for each customer who doesn't buy anything else... so WHY do they limit the promotion to one model per day? I'm happy to know that we don't pay when someone charge a few cents to our CC. I was worried about that. So thank you for that info!

If only 100 customers buy it they would make a profit. And since it's only one day folks who don't get the newsletter will probably buy the item at full price after today. Well worth the full price. Marque

I just downloaded today's item (I'm not interested in the model and I don't have it but the rest of the package is impressive). I have another question though. When I checked out, I saw it was a total of $0.00 because I could use my voucher on this. But I just received the order confirmation and here is what it says: Ollok 1 @ $0.95 = $0.95 Tax: $0.00 Shipping: $0.00 Discount: -$0.29 Total: $0.66 Can someone explain please? France

You should call Daz and ask them. If you are out of the country and can't reach them I will call them for you and ask. Marque

Are you a PC member? That might be what the discount is. If not, maybe it's on introductory discount? Wow, maybe PC members get it for even less than $0.66.

Just called them and sent them a link to this so they can answer your question. Marque

The one-per-day scheme is obviously a ploy to get people into the store daily. It's the same with brick-and-mortar stores; getting people in the doors is half the battle. A lot of people will buy more than one item, while they're making the purchase.

If this is "braying panic," DAZ has been in a panic two or three years now. They usually have a big spring and a big fall sale. They've had better deals than this, IMO. Like when they've thrown open the PC to everyone for a month, and had a $0.99 sale. This promo is actually fairly limited, since only a few items are affected.

I bought 2 models while I was picking up the 99 cent freebie... 66 cents after the PC club discount. It worked on me!

Marque and randym... I just checked what is left in my account for vouchers: $4.34 (it was $5.00 earlier) so it means they did apply the voucher to ollok. I think I understand now: it also says the payment was made with voucher #xxxxx. Thanks Marque for calling them. I live in Quec. randym: yes I am a PC member and we have the 30% reduction as usual on all Daz originals and the products offered in this March Blowout are Daz originals. Also, because they are Daz originals, we can apply the vouchers to these products.;o) France

lol I bought a gift certificate to cover the rest of the March Madness offerings, so I don't have to keep using the credit card :)

Yes, that is confusing, the way they send the payment receipts out. There's two, one that lists the order total, and one that lists the amount they actually charged your card (if anything). That freaked me out when I made my first purchase at DAZ. I opened the e-mail with the order total first, and thought they'd screwed up on applying the coupon and discount I was using. Then I opened the other e-mail, with the actual amount charged, and it was exactly what it should have been. :-) I plan to buy today's special, but I haven't yet. I'm waiting to see what today's PC offerings will be.

oh? Do you mean they add something new every day for PC? Didn't know that. Now that you mention it, I remember DAZ always sends 2 emails when I buy something. But I usually receive both emails at the same time. This time, I still haven't received the second email.

No, they only add new stuff once a week. But it's Friday, the day the new PC stuff usually goes up.

randym: At the time you posted your last reply, could you tell me what time it was for DAZ? ;o) Thanks.

This is a Good Thing.

Ordinarily, I don't visit DAZ every day....but this gives me an incentive to do so for as long as the sale lasts.

Thanks for the notification.

They're on Mountain Time, I believe, so it would have been 10:13 am. Friday morning.

Thanks randym. I guess that means they are 3 hours earlier than I am. My timezone is GMT-5 - although I don't see it in here. I don't know how (if it is possible) to fix that for Renderosity forums. I asked the question in the Poser community forum but haven't received a reply yet.

UPDATE: I received a reply from the other forum when I went back to my inbox after posting this reply... No way to set the time to show in our individual timezone here at Renderosity.!??!??!?!

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I just downloaded today's item (I'm not interested in the model and I don't have it but the rest of the package is impressive). I have another question though. When I checked out, I saw it was a total of $0.00 because I could use my voucher on this. But I just received the order confirmation and here is what it says: Ollok 1 @ $0.95 = $0.95 Tax: $0.00 Shipping: $0.00 Discount: -$0.29 Total: $0.66 Can someone explain please? France This is normal. Regardless what you use to pay, you will get a statement showing how much you paid, but nothing was charged, since you used a Voucher. This is always confused people at DAZ. I wish they would add one more line to the Email and tell what was used to make the Payment (Gift Certificates, Voucher, PayPal, or CC.)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I'd say this promo is a case of quiet desperation turning into braying panic." --------------------------------------------------------------- Just curious, but what exactly do you believe DAZ is Desperate and Panicking about??? any verifiable inside info you care to share??? ;-)

I don't think its desperation, I just wish they extended the sale to existing items as well as new ones. I just also wish they had some consistency in their pricing...

I believe it's just a matter of 'you can attract more flies using sugar than with vinegar'...treat your customers right and they'll be happy and keep coming back...and back...and believe you me, we HAVE, all this year...if what we alone spent this past year is any indication of how DAZ is doing, then they are doing quite alright, let me tell you...hehe...they seem to be a very fair company and I like the way they treat customers, so they reap our loyalty and other benefits from this end!

It was an exaggerated statement to make the point that they are doing things they never would ordinarily do. The timing reflects desperation to take the wind out of a week that belongs to Curious Labs. Any company confident in it's position would not run such a cheesy promotion as a penny sale just as the opposition is having its moment. If they were REALLY proud and confident, they would have raised prices.

It would be like if one party held majority in Congress and announced a stunning major piece of Legislature on the Innaguration Day of a president from the opposing party.

::::: Opera :::::

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DAZ hasn't disappointed me yet.

They are doing the right thing here. In fact, this sale goes above & beyond the call of duty. Or of loyalty to their customers.

Looks like they put tomorrow's item up. It's "Aila Hair," a very nice hairstyle by Lisbeth.

"Do you mean they add something new every day for PC? Didn't know that." They said ALMOST every day, and I doubt they'll be putting things up on the weekends. "I'd say this promo is a case of quiet desperation turning into braying panic. ::::: Opera ::::: " Lol! That didn't take long! As soon as I started reading this thread I wondered how long it would take for someone to start whining. Coldrake

No, she was talking about the Platinum Club items. You know, that go up every week. They're up now, BTW. Some nice stuff this week, though apparently not the items they had planned. For the March Madness promo, it looks like there is a Saturday item. There just may be a Sunday one as well. DAZ offices may be closed, but their web geeks seem to work weekends. Sometimes new PC items go up on Saturday, so March Madness items might, too.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The timing reflects desperation to take the wind out of a week that belongs to Curious Labs." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In your opinion you mean. after all one could argue this week "belongs" to EON software as well. NO offense and Pardon me, but such a gratuitous assertion might be somewhat credible if Poser 6 somehow prevented the use of any DAZ content.:-) after years of frustration,Poser users will soon have a well deserved lighting and render system on par with Lightwave and Cinema4DXL.( two apps that I own and use) I imagine many of them will love to see how their DAZ content looks under image based lighting. with HDRI. And YAaa "jessi and "Jim" look infinitely better than that horrible Don and judy, but they are as yet UNPROVEN entities and you still have to $$BUY$$ poser 6 to get them. The Mil folk are a proven, albeit flawed, entity with an existing support base already established and are a free Download to any bloke who owns any version of poser or DAZ studio. and yes the morph packs are a separate $$purchase$$ but alas even the most casual glance in the galleries would indicate that not having the morph packs is not major issue for many. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Any company confident in it's position would not run such a cheesy promotion as a penny sale just as the opposition is having its moment." If they were REALLY proud and confident, they would have raised prices." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ????????.....In my opinion such an assertion indicates a complete lack of understanding of what DAZ's market is, and the Direction of 3D Software and Content in General. there is industry wide DOWNWARD pressure on prices in 3D driven by a number of factors. two of which are saturation at top end and an influx of new talent and interest in wanting to do CG Alias was the first to acknowledge that the $$Good$$ old days of the "Ferengi alliance" were over when they Drasticly lowered the price of the ultra expensive MAYA Complete and offered a free learning edition. And now we have a $500 dollar version of Softimage XSI and a sub $300 Dollar Side grade version of lightwave3D and despite vehement denials Discreet (3DMAX) will eventually have to follow suit the popular term is "3D Democracy" these are NOT 'Cheesy" Promotions but acknowledgment of a changing paradigm in the CG market. to see this one has to Try to be Dispassionate and objective enough to realize that lower prices for us end users is not always the nefarious machinations of an evil empire seeking to enslave us later on.

For those who don't want the old troll thing.....they also have a new hair style out called Aila Hair that is $0.62 right now. Kristta

after all one could argue this week "belongs" to EON software as well. That's right! DAZ is no doubt targeting E-on with this evil promotion of theirs. CL will be next week, when DAZ releases Bryce 5.5. >:-) (No, I don't know for sure that DAZ is releasing Bryce next week. But Steve did say over at DAZ that they are about to release it. Whatever that means.)

Two thumbs up for DAZ! I am downloading the Aila hair now and downloaded Ollok yesterday!

Ok...I think the point is simple. You're either going to take advantage of what is being sold at the specified price or you're not. That's the take-home message which is quick to the point. Getting upset and posting really long messages doesn't change anything...

Colddrake, ......wait....no, I'm not going to slam a zinger back over the fence at you. I reject the term 'whining' of course, but in fact I accept your point anyway, I rest my case that this is bush-league timing on the part of Daz but I withdraw from this thread. DAZ fans should enjoy their sale.

Wolf,

The use of assertion is no vice -- and needs no qualifier that it is an opinion -- if the speaker accepts responsibility for substantiation. This I accept and have done.

Since I will be departing, I will just say that the only thing you said that stands solid is that this week should belong to E-On also. Congratulations to all Vue fans and happy rendering.

::::: Opera :::::

"It was an exaggerated statement to make the point that they are doing things they never would ordinarily do. The timing reflects desperation to take the wind out of a week that belongs to Curious Labs." Now I'm confused... anyone who orders the boxed version won't even have P6 until sometime around April 5th...wouldn't THAT week be more of a celebration week? And Daz creates content for poser.. so they ARE celebrating P6, in their own fashion. And IMHO, Vue really gets this week in my book.. Vue 5 infinite looks amazing! I'd buy into it, but in the last year I've seen like 5 different flavors of Vue, and I'd MUCH rather see ONE version, with upgrades, instead of vue 4, vue 4 pro, vue 5, and now vue5 infinite. What's next? Vue 4 infinite? Vue 4 pro Infinite? Vue 6?

I just downloaded Aila Hair.:o) I don't care a fig for the reason DAZ decided to have this March Madness Blowout... I TAKE IT and say THANK YOU. lolll

"Now I'm confused... anyone who orders the boxed version won't even have P6 until sometime around April 5th...wouldn't THAT week be more of a celebration week?" Ahh.... but these real world facts dont matter to conspiratorialists Who pop into every thread mentioning DAZ to make silly unproven Claims and Quickly Flee into the wilderness whe asked to provide actual facts but such is the nature of the web forums. but who cares we REAL artists Are off to get our neat low priced Digital content for our work !! :-)

Leave it to the Poser community to bitch about high quality products at low prices. bonni

If this is "braying panic," DAZ has been in a panic two or three years now. They usually have a big spring and a big fall sale. Nicely said ;) BTW, remember: Aila Hair ... 99 cents.

Ah, I bought the damned hair as well... I don't really have a use for it at all, but I just couldn't pass up bargain hair. Wonder when the next one goes up?

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