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Yes, still doesn't work

Thank you very much :)

Thank you :)

(whispers) by any chance can the same be done to Samil's Faery house, at least for a week? It was on clearance but I missed it -_- and also would like to buy it.

Quote - > Quote - From what I understand, on-sale items will count toward $50 minimal limit but won't be discounted by coupon (so the total discount save will be less then 30% if cart has on-sale items). A pure assumption, of course, I didn't try the coupon.

I did try it, doesn't work that way.  You have to have $50 in full price items before the coupon kicks in, at least that is how it was when I tried it yesterday.

Thank you for a test. Doesn't look very nice for me.

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Still, when you get a product like that, I'd contact (in this case) both the vendor and the store staff, let them know why you're disappointed.  I know it feels like, sometimes, words fall on deaf ears, but you'd be surprised at how many times they don't.  

A refund is always an good end option from a customer viewpoint but from an observer viewpoint - what Renderosity can offer to vendors to earn that 50/50 cut in comparasion with the other site?

Sure, the place is a good hub (thanks in no small part to a community and freebie contributors), has a prominence and also low acceptance limit which makes it, IMHO, appealing to new vendors who want to make their breakthrough and don't care much about %%. But those qualities are a double-edged sword - the flood of items, many of them are all of the same theme and level of quality - makes new products be lost very quickly. In this situation even an extra ad in my perception isn't a benefit to be bought - it is mandatory step from Renderosity side to give the product -any- spotlight.

I highly doubt that Renderosity works with vendors in loops of testing in order to reach high quality. Considering how fast the product can be accepted to marketplace, I somewhat doubt that they are spending much time in testing so QC is minimal (check if all features here, if all pathes work, if its promos don't claim something that they don't deliver, etc). Most of good vendors here are known, IMHO again, because they deliver a good product -themselves-, not with help of Renderosity testers and QC. Renderosity for a half cut offers no technical support, no good QC, doesn't monitor or offer a help with promos which often don't show product as they should. And as I said, I consider newsletters spotlights and additional ad banners to be an esential part of what marketplace should offer, not a bonus to be bought.Yes, until recently vendors had somewhat better control over sales but I can't figure out other benefits except being on marketplace where a lot of stuff accepted and a lot of people come for freebies (so Renderosity can show more ad banners to them).

So what Renderosity can offer as a "sell value" to vendors if it wants 50% cut out of them? I'm not asking this personally from you, as I understand your position, but I think this is a question that both, Renderosity and its vendors, should ask themselves.

Quote - I can tell you from when I was a tester a few years back, much more than just file path errors and missing textures are tested.  We were expected to test the actual product for usability, and the review team reviews it for marketability before it even gets to testing.  Just FYI ;)

From my experience, it is just not the same level of QC. Yes, Renderosity tests for pathes and such (nevertheless, I got a product with wrong paths more than once) and they check, for example, for all advertised features (like morphs) to be actually in pack and spinning with some result. But Renderosity doesn't appear to test for -quality- of those features. Once I got a product where morphs looked like they were translated with a help of Morphing Clothes with obviously no manual tune-up from a side of the vendor. Promos was done in such a cleaver way that it wasn't obvious from pictures (promos are always like that).
The result looked awful. I coudn't use the product and I coudn't ask for refund, because, technically, the product had the announced feature. It is just that quality of that feature was bad and QC/QA didn't bother to work with vendor to fix it before the release, because, FWIK, it isn't a purpose of testing on this marketplace.
Comparatively with the quality of testing of DAZ3D it isn't the same level. Sure, DAZ3D has mishaps sometimes, but very rarely on my memory in rate of total items and I can always ask for refund if I don't like the quality. So what with the 50/50% cut for that low level testing and no technical support from Renderosity? Not understandable to me.

From what I understand, on-sale items will count toward $50 minimal limit but won't be discounted by coupon (so the total discount save will be less then 30% if cart has on-sale items). A pure assumption, of course, I didn't try the coupon.

 I was always wondering why Renderosity asks for 50% cut if it can't provide the same level of QA, QC and technical support DAZ3D (and have this clearance policy)? Extra ad banners don't cost that much, IMHO. Previously I know some vendors prefered Renderosity because it let them control sales better (so they had only one sale per year and it was long-awaited -event-) but if matters are like explained in this thread (forced sales with a coupon or forced "sale" to avoid a forced sale with a coupon) it makes me wonder what the appeal of this 50/50% cut?

I additionally support the following suggestions:

Quote - I not only support this petition, but have some real concerns with Renderosity's policy of flagging all free items as "licensed for non-commerial use only," even when the artist making & offering the free item (which Renderosity is using to attract customers & advertisers) clearly intends otherwise & states so in either/both the readme & the blurb prepared for the freebie page.  This is deliberately misrepresenting the items involved.

Quote - 1) Put adverts on the Rendo hosted freebies to cover cost of hosting.

1. Put the links to external hosted sites back to the way they were.
2. Put some sort of identifying icon next to the item, like the "Renderosity exclusive" icon in the marketplace so people have the choice of whether to download from Rendo (through all those ads) or not.

I support this petition.

Especially that part that people who host their freebies off-site (and bear all costs of this desicion and problems of it) should not be a part of current add-filled freebie system because there is no costs for Renderosity for hosting those freebies.

But it isn't older then 6 months and I still have some IMs which are older then 6 months in my IMbox.

I remember that 1st April message that warned that all IMs prior to a certain date would be deleted but I never received a warning that now IMs will be deleted automatically.
And I visit this site every day.

Thank you :)

I hope it won't happen in future and thank you very much for the answers.

99.97% sure. I had 333 items in wishlist precisely and yesterday it was only 330 - one I moved into cart (it wasn't on clearance) but nothing aside of that so I became worried.