Success! 

I appreciate your and Stacey's efforts. I apologize for the trouble.  Best wishes for the New Year.

Thank you Kristi. Got your emails, took action and sent you the information to the email address above.

The comments above are by Speculoos and Ice Empress in the thread referred to between the asterisks. They never heard of the minimum either.

I went and reviewed my order history more closely. It does not agree with what you are telling us, Stacy, about there always being a $5.00 minimum. 

In 2010 and 2011 and into 2012 I had between one and three dozen purchases below 5.00 and more then a dozen of them less than $1.00, some as low as 60 cents.

After August 2012 It does not seem that I puchased any low dollar items because most of my purchases were of PRIME objects which are priced at $3.50. I stopped checking my order history at that point.

The above comments by Speculoos seem to indicate that there was no minimum in effect as recently as July 21 2014 but that something had changed by Wed July 23, 2014, the date of his thread comments.

I ask that you return to a policy of no minumum.

Stacy,

After writing my comment, I was wondering of others were having the same problem.  In the thread below is someone else who says they never encountered the Renderosity's minimum purchase price until recently. 

I myself may have more orders below the minimum than the one I referenced, but it takes a long time to sift through the order pages so I just reversed the sort order and started from the back because I knew I had orders around $1.00 and never before hit a minimum.

I don't know when they started the $5.00, but I certainly never hit that, much less the $3.50. For me, despite the time I have been a customer here, this is new.

I will reiterate that I do not like the minimum price requirement. Please consider removing it.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2883225

To IceEmpress:

I do not get that "All fields of the selected payment method are required because I always use the Pay by check or money order payment method when I use a GC. I use PayPal for real "money" payments so that I do not need to give my CC data.

 To StaceyG:

Thank you very much for your answer to my question.

It is strange that it is now impossible to buy something priced less than $3.50 because as I have mentioned above it was possible to do so until today. At least on July 21 and 22.

I have used very small remaining GCs to buy different things like these outfits and it worked perfectly:

Order #: 112559562 of July 21, 2014:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=93606

Order #: 112559613 of July 21, 2014:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=72491

Both items cost $2.00 and the payment with remaining GCs went through without any problem.

There is a fee for the payment by PayPal or CC but I do not believe that anything is charged for the Pay by check or money order payment method unless there is a real check or money order to cash at the bank and there is none since the total amount to pay is $0.00. The $0.00 is not a real transaction in this case. At least I think.

I'm not part of Rosity, so I can't help. But I am curious, does your September rewards spending actually show an amount (You seem to indicate that it does)?

I regularly encounter a problem with the way Renderosity shows how far away you are from rewards; As far as I am concerned their number can be incorrect and is unreliable because they don't take into account the sale prices and coupons until after you check out.

I have been snookered because the amount they show has said I have enough to meet rewards when it's really not.

IMHO they should show you where you stand BEFORE checkout and not their presumed (and maybe accurate or maybe not accurate) amount after checkout.

Quote -  ....The site is still hard to navigate ....Deleting items from my kart took a bit longer than it should have.

Renderosity should provide a 'click' icon so that you can click everything at once and then hit 'delete' only one time. It really does take a long time to delete things now, since it seems to have to link up with the server for each and every item and I hope this bug is addressed and fixed in the near future.

I have to read the site at 80% to see the items reasonably. The trade-off in navigation is legibility.

I don't know where to put this. It's my fault, yes, I know. But I'm still annoyed.

This morning before work, I got up, saw the vendor grab bags (Vyktohria) and spent about an hour going through the (horrible for me) new site layout.  I picked out two items for the Vyktohria gab bag. This evening I got back, figured out how to pay for them with the renderrewards and money I had and bought them.

There was no notice about the grab bag and How I would apply for it or what had been awarded to me in the promotion.

Why?

I went to check how I would go about getting the grab bag. Low and behold instead of the usual 11:59PM everyday, Surprise surprise, Renderosity decided to end the grab bag a few hours after I put items into my cart.

So, for this wonderful grab bag promotion, I do not receive a grab bag.

The rendo site has gotten hard enough for me to navigate. I do not like this grab bag promotion and its fine print. It didn't do anything except consume my time.

My one reward is a good product from a good vendor. But I didn't get anything extra from Renderosity.

Phooey on you promotional peoples!.....

Regarding not using the Daz Install Manager (DIM) mentioned above: The TWO EXPLORER WINDOW DRAG METHOD.

For Tigger Spings: I don't use the Daz manager either. In Win7 (and 8) I simply open two explorer windows. I double click on the zip file to open it in one. Then I drag the Daz Runtime folder from it along with the occasional Documents folder (the latter in a separate movement; optional if you want to keep the documenation together) from that explorer window over to the window that shows my destination folder that contains "Runtime" (as opposed to the actual "Runtime" folder itself, if you're managing multiple Runtimes; That is to say you drag into one level up from the folder that has "Runtime" in it).

The wording may sound muddled, but if you go through it you'll see what I mean.

I don't touch the Daz content folder and don't need to rezip the Daz folder at all.  You can even archive these files to CDs or DVDs and use this technique leaving everything intact as you get it.

As this is a feedback thread,

(1) I agree with Tigger Springs about sub-information. There are characters I don't use and would like to bypass. I, too, don't use many Genesis characters and would prefer if clothes, hair and characters for Genesis only were something I could occasionaly block out. Not being able to differentiate between Genesis and non-Genesis is a reason I do less shopping at Daz. It is frustrating seeing an artistic creation I like, spend the time to read about it, and then find it is not designed for the figure I have it in mind for.

Along those lines, too, are the Hairstyle products.  I'd like to separate out Hair products from textures for Hair products. 80%-90% of the time I'm either shopping for one or the other. It is frustrating if you are looking for a new figure or prop to go through pages of texture styles that are not applicable, especially if the Rendo server is slow and the pages take a few seconds to load.

If I'm shopping for new hairstyle figure or prop products, I usually want to see those first as I typically have a limited budget. Sometimes I do want to see what other textures support it.  If I am shopping for a texture product, it is usually because I already have the hairstyle and want to see how to extend its reach. Occasionally I will look at only hairstyle textures, usually by vendor, to see if there is a hairstyle that I have missed but that looks really good when someone else does the promos differently.

(2) LOG-IN ISSUE The reason for writing right now, reagards Log-In.  It has always been a pain to log in after I have browsed the site and find something I'm interested in. When you log in the site doesn't keep you on the page you're on but rather redirects you to the home page. If you try the usual tactic of hitting the back key it doesn't work because then you revert to a logged-out page.

Please change the log-in procedure to leave you on the page you're at when you log in. Or at least leave that page open (so you can easily go back and reload) and open a new page for the re-direct.

(3) STILL NOT STRUCTURALLY FRIENDLY. I still cannot read the site due to page size and Font Color issues and am toggling my browser down to 80% when I want to see more than two items on a page with very long scrolls downward, then toggling it back to 100% when I want to read the text. Shopping on this 75 % sale took an agonizingly long time. If I wasn't on vacation, I might have looked at 10 of the 60 pages then quit.  The check-out process with the one-item delete at a time was the final aggravation. The renderosity site often takes several seconds to switch pages now. It is not my computer or the ISP as I check the download speeds and network speeds.  The spinning ball of waiting pages seems to be something on the Renderoisty server end.  Basic Readability and Time spent clicking and living with the spinning ball are thus two big issues.

Very sorry to hear this.  Know what it feels like. Sorry so late to the thread. They are members of the family. They look to us to take care of them. The best thing you could have done for Kitty Jr. is give him a good life and a loving home, which it sounds like you did.

I have heard it said that animals and pets have shorter lives than we do and that this is a helpful training for things that are really important. Not sure that I said it quite right, but hopefully the thought comes across.

Thank you Stacey for your response. I recognize that Renderoisty cannot satisfy everybody, but I really do hope some of these issues change. I assume that the company is monitoring things like 'artists online' , the time spent on line, and ultimately purchases made, with thei idea that if these numbers grow the change is basically good, and if they shrink, then it probably was not good.

For making purchases I would like to be able to delete as many items as I don't want at a given time with perhaps one pop-up that says, 'confirm delete of these items.'  Also, ideally, I would like a second temporary wishlist cart that I could put things into while a given sale is on. A 'temporary cart' if you will. Then transfer things over to my final cart with the idea that if I get more money or change my mind on some things I could go back to my temporary cart for a bit.

Size and basic readability and navigation is till a big thing for me. I'm not too concerned about style.

Thank you.

**Website still marginally usable for me. **

** Potential Suggestion For others:**

In firefox 30 , I was told to go to the top right bar, which has symols like star, menu box, down arrow, house and then three horizontal bars that look like a square. Click on that (the three bars that form a square) and choose viewing of about 80% with the magnifiying glass. This trades itty bitty type for the ability to see more of the website at the same time. I togggle back and forth between the two.

On the whole, everything takes a lot more time to accomplish. I'm writing now because I found a new glitch; a new time waster.

A NEW GLITCH IN THE SHOPPING CART: Click Delete, Pop-Up, Click, 10 seconds Spinning Ball; Click Delete, Pop-up, Click, 10 seconds Spinning Ball....

I was going through the sales as best I can and putting items into my shopping cart that I might be interested in, not that I certainly would buy. Now, with the idea of purchase, I've been going through taking items out till I get to what I'm willing to buy.

It's taking forever. In the past I would go down the list and click through 4-6 items at a time to delete from the cart and they would all go out.

For each and every gosh-darn item I get now a pop-up that stops me cold and locks my system until I confirm delete. After the pop-up comes the spinning ball for about 10-15 seconds as it decides whether to honor my delete request (the spinning ball always used to happen, but I could postpone it in the past by clicking 4-6 items so they would go at once). Then for the next delete the whole process repeats. Click Delete, Pop-Up, Click, Spinning ball. At being able to delete four or five items per minute, guess how long it takes to manage this one task on a cart with 50 or more potential items in it?

Making time management by adding more clicks slows my purchase guys. I am no less likely to delete items, but I am more likely to put less into the cart on speculation.

It is taking too long to shop here. Things are very hard to see and the purchase management process is becoming slower and slower.

I am beginning to feel like I am Rodney Dangerfield to you all.  I get no respect for my time.

Thank you, Stacey.

PPS (Post, Post-Script)

Sabby, I just saw your Toronto location. This morning at about 5AM on PBS there was a re-run about the history of the war of 1812. I didn't realize that one reason the British burned the Capitol of Washington DC and the White House under James and Dolly Madison was in retaliation for the Americans buring the City of York(?) Canada, when they weren't supposed to. York or the city they mentioned is now Toronto. I learn something new every day.

Hi Sabby,

Yes, my Browser is maximized.

The site definitely performs better on a windows 7 machine with a landscape monitor. The images are still somewhat large, but tolerable. And I actually like the site like that.

I think there are two differences with me here.  First, I think this is because my purchase and regular work machine is XP, and will be for the forseeable future.  I did borrow a windows 7 machine that has access to the web and viewed the site on the same Firefox30, and the images are smaller, which is how I reached the conclusion above.

Second, another difference, is that the monitor on the borrowed machine has a slightly more rectangular aspect ratio, with the width greater than the height. The one that I use regulary because it is the largest that fits a furniture cabinet is almost square, even though it is a relatively new monitor.

If you're having the problem with a reduced screen, maybe this second is the more important and it's not the operating system.

I don't know which is the gating factor on the site viewability, but neither condition with me is likely to change unless a host of other sites I visit for regular business purposes also switch and cause problems (PS I Checked RDNA, now open, and they're slightly large to be comfortable, but tolerable).

As such the Renderosity site on my machine is almost unusable and, if one thing good comes from it, this will make it very hard to browse and spend on what is a discretionalry, but addictive, hobby. I've said my piece to Rendo,  more probably than I should have. If they want to address it, fine. If not, that's going to be okay, too.

I still have a character to buy from you, as I mentioned before (you made me laugh). I decided to push it into July rather than June 30 just in case things change here and I buy more. Probably later today as rain is likely to keep me inside.