Hey I understand... technology is moving forward, and some products are just not up to par with it This site used to be banging with Poser products, but more and more Daz Studio just took it over. I still remember the days of Michael 1/Victoria 1, 2,3,4..... And I will admit a lot of times I still use Poser.

Anyways, the old products are not selling as well... so vendor are pulling them down from the shelf and retiring them. I get it... why having something that doesn't sell for sale?

But man... now that I saw that one vendor I like is retiring their stuff (M4V4) it does bring a sadness... Some beautiful old stuff is still available, sure. But when a creator retires their stuff (that I haven't purchased due to financial restraints), I'm sad. I still have quite a lengthy wish list on here.

Instead of retiring products can't vendors just move them over to the clearance section?

Maybe I'm just and old dog?

I so agree!  Looooong wishlist and way too slowly working it off, it seems...

Inspired_Art posted at 1:07 AM Wed, 1 March 2023 - #2977724

Hey I understand... technology is moving forward, and some products are just not up to par with it This site used to be banging with Poser products, but more and more Daz Studio just took it over. I still remember the days of Michael 1/Victoria 1, 2,3,4..... And I will admit a lot of times I still use Poser.

Anyways, the old products are not selling as well... so vendor are pulling them down from the shelf and retiring them. I get it... why having something that doesn't sell for sale?

But man... now that I saw that one vendor I like is retiring their stuff (M4V4) it does bring a sadness... Some beautiful old stuff is still available, sure. But when a creator retires their stuff (that I haven't purchased due to financial restraints), I'm sad. I still have quite a lengthy wish list on here.

Instead of retiring products can't vendors just move them over to the clearance section?

Maybe I'm just and old dog?

Thanks Inspired Art & hmatienzo

I agree. The thing is, this stuff is digital. It really doesn't take up space the way physical products do. Some of the "stripper ware" won't be missed, but there are items I haven't seen before & there have been no new version.

One vendor who had some truly unique items, pulled their stuff from the clearance section when the $3.50 sale was on (I had loaded up a cart FULL.) but had to empty it because I couldn't pay full price. THEN they put everything in this retirement sale for 2 or 3 times the price?!?!

If the stuff is going for good, why not let it go for $3.50 each, so people can get what they need? Also, extend the sale because I know as tight as money is for many of us, we can't rally too much money so fast.

Also, bring back the vault sale! That was the BEST sale Rendo ran! Haven't seen it in a few years, but I dropped 500 on the last one!

I use Carrara, so V4M4 are my workhorses!  Until this retirement nonsense came, I bragged about the availability of V4M4 stuff here. Not bragging anymore.

tsarist posted at 7:38 AM Fri, 3 March 2023 - #4457494

Inspired_Art posted at 1:07 AM Wed, 1 March 2023 - #2977724

Hey I understand... technology is moving forward, and some products are just not up to par with it This site used to be banging with Poser products, but more and more Daz Studio just took it over. I still remember the days of Michael 1/Victoria 1, 2,3,4..... And I will admit a lot of times I still use Poser.

Anyways, the old products are not selling as well... so vendor are pulling them down from the shelf and retiring them. I get it... why having something that doesn't sell for sale?

But man... now that I saw that one vendor I like is retiring their stuff (M4V4) it does bring a sadness... Some beautiful old stuff is still available, sure. But when a creator retires their stuff (that I haven't purchased due to financial restraints), I'm sad. I still have quite a lengthy wish list on here.

Instead of retiring products can't vendors just move them over to the clearance section?

Maybe I'm just and old dog?

Thanks Inspired Art & hmatienzo

I agree. The thing is, this stuff is digital. It really doesn't take up space the way physical products do. Some of the "stripper ware" won't be missed, but there are items I haven't seen before & there have been no new version.

One vendor who had some truly unique items, pulled their stuff from the clearance section when the $3.50 sale was on (I had loaded up a cart FULL.) but had to empty it because I couldn't pay full price. THEN they put everything in this retirement sale for 2 or 3 times the price?!?!

If the stuff is going for good, why not let it go for $3.50 each, so people can get what they need? Also, extend the sale because I know as tight as money is for many of us, we can't rally too much money so fast.

Also, bring back the vault sale! That was the BEST sale Rendo ran! Haven't seen it in a few years, but I dropped 500 on the last one!

I use Carrara, so V4M4 are my workhorses!  Until this retirement nonsense came, I bragged about the availability of V4M4 stuff here. Not bragging anymore.

Putting the items in the clearance Section AND bringing back the Vault sale are excellent ideas. Currently with the economy the way it is handing my finances I can't really afford this new stuff AND my wish list keeps getting longer (old and new DS/Poser stuff, etc.). So any kind of sales/breaks on the old stuff is always welcomed. 

No reason to remove the old stuff availability from the marketplace either... whether that's Renderosity's doing or the artists (I've got stuff from way back as 2008 in wish list)

But like I said.. I get it, these aren't selling.. and why do I have something from 2008 in there? LOL. 

I could join Prime... but not every antique item is listed as Prime, which it should be.

Like their competitor over at the other site has like $1.99 old school specials all the time. 

I agree... it's sad to see some old good products being retired and going away forever.

Eventually I will release as freebies here on Renderosity some products I created years ago.
I used to sell them in my site, now they look slightly dated, especially materials and textures, and today probably I would create more realistic and detailed meshes (10-12 years ago was not recommended to use too many polygons) but someone could still use and enjoy them.
Sharing them with people is a better option than abandoning them "forgotten and dusty" in my Runtime.