$110 was the total for me, plus Utah sales tax because that's where I live.

Had to proceed all the way to the last page for all discounts to be applied. The DAZ site automatically finds the appropriate discount from your record of purchases, you don't need to supply any information, but you do need to log on for this to work.

Make the Plantinum Club quarterly purchase at the outset. If you forget, click edit the final billing page and go back to grab it. Keep on top of that subscription or you will be automatically rebilled each quarter, if it works the way it used to.

My cost for upgrading from 7 to 8 was higher than this, about $140 I think, and that was through a quarterly PC purchase also. I was very glad to get the 64 bit renderer with 8 virtual cores cooking all at once. It really does this full bore, I checked frequently through Task Manager just to watch all eight cylinders spike.

Each person will have to weigh for her or himself whether the added value justifies the cost. It did for me because: 1) the price was less than my previous upgrade; 2) Poser Pro 7 and 3DS Max 7 won't run on my Win7 64 system even in compatibility mode; 3) I want to say on the upgrade escalator because version 9 will cost more going straight from 8 compared to 8.5; 4) I'm sure I'll use the new features and character models now that I have them.

SMcQ