IceEmpress posted at 9:36AM Fri, 27 November 2015 - #4241151

How did they mess up Prime? Did it have to do with the site redesign? (seems like I remember something about that) Or did they remove some of the benefits?

I think some of us felt the removed all of the benefits. They dropped the price to $29.99 from so say $99.99 but I doubt anyone ever paid more then $49.99, I never did, and for that you got a 30% or so voucher with a few random voucher every month and all the prime products were $3.50. What they did not say was that was all about the to change but the price drop was around anniversary time so a lot of people renewed their membership. Then the members found out that the $3.50 price was not longer across the board and vendors were allowed to increase their prices, which many did as Rendo was now going to take a cut of that price something they did not do before. Some prices almost doubled while other vendors kept them at $3.50, still more increased them only to drop them back to $3.50 when the **** hit the fan.

The large voucher every month changed to a more random smaller affair but they promised a free product each month. Towards the end of the first month the first freebie was released and that was for Genesis so lots of those members using Poser were not happy and even the Daz users needed a few purchases from Daz for it to be useful. In fairness even the Daz user jumped in and said the selection of that product was wrong. Later freebies (as Rendo like to call them) were found be old products that had been on sale and lot already had, To add insult to injury it was then discovered the product were being gifted by the vendor, so Rendo was taking the money for this 'freebie' from the membership and it was costing them nothing.

Final insult was that, when Prime members complained they were usually treated with contempt and Rendo tried to put the blame on the vendors. End result was though many, like me, stopped spending here or drastically reduced their spending and still more emptied their wish lists of Prime items. Other Prime members noted which vendors put their prices up the most and then built 'black lists' of vendors that they would not buy from. Prime or otherwise.

Most of all this was played out in semi-secret as the Prime members forum was used to vent a great deal of anger. Which is why I fully understand that non Prime members must be fed up with Prime sale as Rendo has a lot of ground to make up. Despite that I suspect that many will not continue with Prime when their membership runs out.

All of this happened at the same time as the site changes so the Prime debacle was just another aggravation. Then there was the advertising in the galleries that overwhelmed the uploaded image and I was not alone in deleting my entire gallery. For this and many other reasons many of the people that used to come here have just left Rendo completely and moved to other forums. Sadly a small number found all of the changes to the site and the endless trolling in the Poser forum to be the last straw and the hobby did not give them the pleasure anymore and gave up 3D art entirely. That may be extreme but the one underlying theme is that Rendo is not a nice place to be anymore

 

 

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