Ok,I just got the most recent DAZ Newsletter and am a bit miffed so please bear with me.I am familiar with charities and how they can at times be abused by various companies for sales promotions wherein the charity is nothing but a gimmick to boost their own profits.There are currently several sites doing 50% off sales for the holidays with nothing more attached than the offer of a good sale...thats the way it should be.DAZ however is using a charity to boost sales with 50% of every sale being given to http://www.thechristmasboxhouse.org/ which is in my estimation a very worthy charity.

But here's where the problems begin wherein this sale reveals itself to be nothing but a gimmick as they are releasing one item a day for twelve days more or less representing a certain number of lost sales for each day because there is no base number of products to build on.Whats the significance of that?If you're trying to generate $15,000.00 for charity over a period of roughly 17 days and you must actually make $30,000.00 in sales to reach that goal,you must begin the sale with a number of products and not rely on a day by day rush to buy the next items released.

I went there and saw the first item,good product but I don't need it so there was a no sale.I won't be there every day nor will I expect to buy anything as I really wasn't impressed by one item...nor will I be impressed by six.However,had DAZ released twenty or thirty items up front and then added to it each day then they would have gotten my attention.

The trick here is most people won't buy even for charity if they don't need the item...those who do largely buy because its for charity which basically begs the question why not donate all the money to the charity knowing 100% goes to it rather than splitting it 50/50 with DAZ?

Course you do get vouchers and if you suck up enough to buy all twelve items you don't need maybe you'll even get a $50.00 voucher.

This doesn't set right with me because to me if you donate to charity it shouldn't be used in conjunction with what will be percieved by some as a 50% sale with the charity being used to promote sales to people who otherwise wouldn't be inclined to make a purchase.

However,I do realise to some of you that this represents kindness and goodness on their behalf...kindness and goodness would be to ask merchants to "donate" items for the charity and then give 100% of each sale to the charity.You'd be surprised how many people would have donated to such an event had they been approached or the project was presented publicly to generate interest.

Maybe DAZ didn't mean for this to come off badly,but then DAZ only thinks about promoting DAZ and making money...they could always prove me wrong by asking more merchants to donate and then giving 100% of all sales to charity.This is indeed a worthy charity and it can be written off on their taxes...lol,course they'll probably do that anyway even at 50%.

So ignore the DAZ sale if you want to donate to this worthy charity,send 100% of anything you wish to donate directly to http://www.thechristmasboxhouse.org/ and know that you are putting a smile on the faces of countless needy children this Christmas...I used to be one of those kids and it mean't the world to me knowing people cared so much to bring us a Christmas dinner or gifts with absolutely nothing being given to them more than the warmth they gained from looking at a young boy tear into presents he might not otherwise have gotten...then seeing a tear in his mothers eye knowing we were not forgotten.

Charity comes from the heart and unless you really want the item then don't buy anything from DAZ on this deal...send 100% of the amount you are thinking of giving to them on a purchase to the charity instead,after all~these aren't new products from what I'm told and if they're not then you could have purchased them at any time if you really wanted them.

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