Hello Everyone.

I was just looking over the notice from Smith Micro with this 60% off sale.

If anyone knows more about this, could you tell me if this sale includes an upgrade from

Poser 8 to Poser Pro 2012, and does it include Miki 3?

Thanks so much. 

 

From the SM website:

"60% OFF BLACK FRIDAY SALE
It's that time of year again and we're offering deep discounts—60% off most software in our online store*—from now until November 30th. "

the asterik reference:
*One coupon use per customer. Not valid with any other offers or discounts. Not valid on trials or upgrades. Not valid for SendStuffNow subscriptions. Sale ends 11/30/2011 at 11:59pm PST."

I guess that answers your question? I guess Miki may be covered but it blows that the upgrade isn't.

Laurie

Try it and see if it works...

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It doesn't work on upgrades

Quote - It doesn't work on upgrades

 

I can't even find an upgrade section there. Just the new purchase of Poser 8, 9 and 2012.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

> Quote - > Quote - It doesn't work on upgrades > >   > > I can't even find an ***upgrade*** section there. Just the new purchase of Poser 8, 9 and 2012.

 

There's a menu that opens up under the List Price for you to select digital, physical, upgrade, and sidegrade

I tried clicking that arrow, but all it keeps giving me is a popup of the picture to the right.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Move your cursor over to the left a bit more, there seems to be some overlap. I had the same problem at first.

Ahhhh! Thanks!  That worked.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Thanks everyone.

Much appreciated.

Now, Mr DAZ, how about including upgrades. After all, it is Thanksgiving you know :)

I have both. Poser 7 and Poser Pro 10. I was to trying to make a sidegrade from the Poser 7 to Poser Pro 12, but doesn't work :-( 

So, no PoserPro12 for christmast for me ;-)

Quote - I have both. Poser 7 and Poser Pro 10. I was to trying to make a sidegrade from the Poser 7 to Poser Pro 12, but doesn't work :-( 

So, no PoserPro12 for christmast for me ;-)

 

Ditto.  I'm finally getting around to getting my graphic card replaced and wanted to get 2012.  But I'll wait for a sale on the side grade.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

On the other hand, the offer is also available at Content Paradise and from what I can tell it includes all content - I just picked up a shed load of Dinoraul stuff (if you like his creatures, make sure you check his store there as it includes some items not sold here).

Quote - On the other hand, the offer is also available at Content Paradise and from what I can tell it includes all content - I just picked up a shed load of Dinoraul stuff (if you like his creatures, make sure you check his store there as it includes some items not sold here).

Holy cow, really????  60% off?  OMG. 

I'm gonna go broke...

 

 

The coupon didn't work for me.  I think it's just software, not content.

Never mind. I got it to work.  For some reason, it didn't apply until I went back to the front page, then clicked on my cart again.

Holy cow, what a sale.  60% off. I got Miki 3 for $16.  (It's almost 300 Mb.  Pity any purchaser on dial-up.)  I also got a ridiculous number of Dinoraul's dinos, and am kinda wishing I bought more.

Quote - Never mind. I got it to work.  For some reason, it didn't apply until I went back to the front page, then clicked on my cart again.

Holy cow, what a sale.  60% off. I got Miki 3 for $16.  (It's almost 300 Mb.  Pity any purchaser on dial-up.)  I also got a ridiculous number of Dinoraul's dinos, and am kinda wishing I bought more.

 

You probably can use the coupon more than once.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

It says the coupon can only be used once per customer. 

It's good until Nov. 30, so you have time to make up your mind!

Yeah I tried getting the sidegrade today too and the coupon didn't work. I wrote CP a note and got this response.

Response (***) 11/24/2011 03:47 PM Thank you for contacting Support. As stated in the Coupon information, the discount does not apply to special pricing, upgrades, etc...

You can use it on the Full Price option for Poser Pro 2012.

******* | Customer/Tech Support
Smith Micro Software, Inc. | www.smithmicro.com ** Customer (******) 11/24/2011 02:45 PM Customer Email = ********
Customer Name = Mark
Product or Seller Info = Poser 2012
Order Num =
Problem = Is a "sidegrade" an upgrade? I can not get your 60% off black Friday coupon to work on an order of a sidegrade from Poser 8 to Poser 2012. Thanks

 

One thing I noted, if the coupon can be applied to the full price, it lowers the cost to about $200 (40% of ~$499.99), so you still save some money as the sidegrade price is about $250.

Might be worth keeping an eye on Amazon.com instead (if you're in the US, anyway).  They run these "lightning deals" at this time of year.  I got PoserPro 2012 for $169.99.  That's cheaper than the pre-order upgrade price.  And there's free shipping (it just arrived yesterday). 

If previous years are any example, they'll be running this deal again before Christmas.

Quote - Might be worth keeping an eye on Amazon.com instead (if you're in the US, anyway).  They run these "lightning deals" at this time of year.  I got PoserPro 2012 for $169.99.  That's cheaper than the pre-order upgrade price.  And there's free shipping (it just arrived yesterday). 

If previous years are any example, they'll be running this deal again before Christmas.

 

Actually, no.

It's $20.00 more than pre-order upgrade price, but still good none the less :)

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Maybe it depends on what you're upgrading from?  The pre-order upgrade price they offered me was $189.99.  (This was an upgrade from Poser 8, which is what I had.)

I couldn't get the coupon to apply?  People got this to work today?  I went to content paradise :(  

The coupon doesn't work on software upgrades. 

It should work on the full versions of software, and on the Poser content in the store.

I hadn't been to CP in a very long time. I must say, I've been spoiled by Rendo and RDNA and DAZ. At CP it seems like a lot of the products (at least in the Props and Scenes category) look like the Free Stuff here at Rendo. Not the quality, I don't know about that since I haven't bought the stuff, but the presentation: primitve figures in stiff poses and weird expressions  used to populate the scenes, primitve lighting and renders that make the textures look primitive and amatuerish as well. Kinda turned me off. Like a lot of them were somebody's first attempt at making something. Other categories, like Figures and Clothing, aren't as bad.

Even with 60% off, I walked away without buying. I was tempted by a $16 Miki 3 (whose regular price is $40, which seemed a lot). But then I thought I'd have to buy a lot of new clothing that only fits Miki 3. I haven't beem able to get Wardrobe Wizard 2 to work well for me.

Still, if there's something you've been waiting to buy from SM or CP, 60% off makes it a good time to do it.

the site is running SUPER slow for me today- when it even works.

@randym77- i ALWAYS miss those lightning deals

Anyone know how much they charge to ship physical editions? thx!

Does Miki 3 work in Daz?  

It's about $10 for shipping software at CP.

There are quite a few merchants who sell at both CP and Rosity, so if you have a favorite here, it might be worth seeing if they sell at CP too.

 

There are a lot of outfits for the G2 Poser characters not available elsewhere, now quite reasonable. Hopefully, they will run this sale again in the future. I'm tapped out helping out family members.

I wanted to buy so much more than I did - but I had to be strict with myself, and limited myself to $45 - still managed to get about $130 of creatures for that. I only wish that I could have spent more.

Someone over at DAZ reports that they were able to get the 60% off discount on a sidegrade to PoserPro 2012.  Dunno if they changed the rules, or it was a fluke or what.

Quote - Someone over at DAZ reports that they were able to get the 60% off discount on a sidegrade to PoserPro 2012.  Dunno if they changed the rules, or it was a fluke or what.

I tried it again. Didn't work for me.

Quote - > Quote - Someone over at DAZ reports that they were able to get the 60% off discount on a sidegrade to PoserPro 2012.  Dunno if they changed the rules, or it was a fluke or what.

I tried it again. Didn't work for me.

Don't believe everything you hear on internet forums.

I am getting this as my Christmas present from my spouse.  It was $250 to upgrade from Poser 9 to Poser Pro 201 without the BLACKFRIDAY2011 coupon--but $199 with the coupon applied to the non-upgrade Pro 2012.  I wanted to buy Miki 3 also, but when I tried to get the physical version of Pro at Content Paradise, it only showed the digital version--I wanted the disk.  So I was unable to purchase Pro there and went to Smith Micro website to purchase the physical version.  Miki isn't available on the Smith Micro website--so I had to go back to Content Paradise to buy her.

Poser 9 has Miki 1 & 2 items in with the free content, but no Miki Figure.  I found hair for Miki and Poses for her, but nothing else, I expect that Pro is the same way.  I think it's very strange that they Miki items, but no Mik figure (they should give Miki 2 with Poser, it makes sense that if people like her they'd eventually upgrade).  Although I don't use many female figures in my renders, I like this one and will be using her I'm sure--plus she comes with hair, clothing and Poses.

I'm hoping that SM includes new content with the next Poser release.  This release seemed to have even less new content but the same old "legacy" content we'd had before.  We'd got some morphs on Aylison an Ryan, some new scene files, and the Dragon, but I've not discovered much else.

Poser 9 is currently on Lightning Deal at Amazon for $59.99.

Quote - the site is running SUPER slow for me today- when it even works.

@randym77- i ALWAYS miss those lightning deals

Anyone know how much they charge to ship physical editions? thx!

 

Physical shipment? Depends on where you live in the world. If you live in Canada and the item comes UPS, expect to pay nearly 100% of the purchase price is duty, brokerage fees, and COD costs for them to collect that from you and taxes on top of it all.  Same thing with the UK.

There were lots of angry people posting on the forums when Pro 2012 was shipped and people were gouged by UPS.

 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

At CP some vendors have taken some of their products "off the shelf" for this sale. Products they don't want to sell for 60% off and have a pittance after giving CP their cut. Hard to blame them, I guess. Naturally these are the kind of things I would buy at such a markdown! :) 

Quote - Poser 9 is currently on Lightning Deal at Amazon for $59.99.

Ohhhhhhhh

Laurie

Quote - > Quote - the site is running SUPER slow for me today- when it even works.

@randym77- i ALWAYS miss those lightning deals

Anyone know how much they charge to ship physical editions? thx!

 

Physical shipment? Depends on where you live in the world. If you live in Canada and the item comes UPS, expect to pay nearly 100% of the purchase price is duty, brokerage fees, and COD costs for them to collect that from you and taxes on top of it all.  Same thing with the UK.

There were lots of angry people posting on the forums when Pro 2012 was shipped and people were gouged by UPS.

 

I believe it's Canadian law that you can refuse the shipment and do the customs yourself, avoiding that ridiculous "'for your convenience'fee" UPS of course will tell you that you can't, but you can ;).

Laurie

> Quote - I wanted to buy so much more than I did - but I had to be strict with myself, and limited myself to $45 - still managed to get about $130 of creatures for that. I only wish that I could have spent more.

I could easily have spent more, too. Though it's probably better that I didn't.  I bought more critters than I'm likely to render in a year. 

I got AM's fox on a whim; it was on the front page and looked interesting.  I really like it.  Takes awhile to load, but renders quickly.  The dynamic fur is nice.

I love animals. Hardly anyone makes em anymore. The fox is nice. I had my eye on that too. ;)

Laurie

thank you Risika75 for pointing me at Amazon--i just ordered P9 for $59.95 WOOT!!! -jan-

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Poser 13, Poser11,  Win7Pro 64, now with 24GB ram

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ok where is the poser 9? i didn't see it in the lightning deals? :(

 

ETA- don't even see it in past deals :/

look in the expired deals.

lost in the wilderness

Poser 13, Poser11,  Win7Pro 64, now with 24GB ram

ooh! i guess i can add my new render(only) machine!  Win11, I7, RTX 3060 12GB

 My Freebies

Jan - Yay! I managed to get it too :)

TA - In the Computers/Software deals it's on page 35 of 48, but expired a couple hours ago.

Quote - look in the expired deals.

 

as i've posted i don't see it there... are you in the us? or canada? or uk?

Quote - Jan - Yay! I managed to get it too :)

TA - In the Computers/Software deals it's on page 35 of 48, but expired a couple hours ago.

 

just found it on the "all deals" page... i was watching the gold box page for lightning deals...

you see @randym77 - i always miss them lol!!

Poser Pro 2012 is 8 GB of data, even though I have broadband it would have taken 2 days to completely download if I didn't experience any errors--that's why I had to go with the physical shipment.  I tried the Poser Debut Demo--4 GB and it took a whole day to download.

Amazon is offering Poser Debut for $15.99 as a lightning deal today.

They seem to be cycling through the SM products.  We've seen Poser 9, PoserPro 2012, Anime Studio Debut, Anime Studio Pro, Manga Studio Debut, and Manga Studio Pro so far.

I was looking at Debut for possible Vue exports, but it didn't work.  I'd only reccomend Debut for 3D newbies.

Quote - Amazon is offering Poser Debut for $15.99 as a lightning deal today.

They seem to be cycling through the SM products.  We've seen Poser 9, PoserPro 2012, Anime Studio Debut, Anime Studio Pro, Manga Studio Debut, and Manga Studio Pro so far.

 

do you get alerts? or do you log in every hour? :p

I don't seem to be getting that information and I get emails from Amazon.com all the time too.  Is there anything special you need to do?

Quote -
do you get alerts? or do you log in every hour? :p

You can scan through the whole day's offerings in the morning.  They tell you what time a deal will go "live," so you can come back at that time. 

Some things sell out in nanoseconds.  But with the SM software, you usually have several hours to get the lightning price. 

Quote - > Quote -

do you get alerts? or do you log in every hour? :p

You can scan through the whole day's offerings in the morning.  They tell you what time a deal will go "live," so you can come back at that time. 

Some things sell out in nanoseconds.  But with the SM software, you usually have several hours to get the lightning price. 

 

ok how about i give you my number, and you call me? lol jokin jokin

Thanks for the info. I'll be doing that! I'm not a poser user right now, i mainly use it for saving textures and such. My main program is Carrara. But PP2012 looks awesome and i want to get it! But just spent $300 on my daughter for bday and holidays and i'm a single mom.... >.< so can't get the program for myself...

now that i've told you my life story.... lol

Thanks again. I appreciate the help!

OK i followed @randym77's advice and checked out the deals this morning! Around 445 (EST) PP2012 will be in lightning deals :)

pokes TA $120.99!

Quote - pokes TA $120.99!

 

I KNO!!! OMG!! SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!

 

Glad i missed P9, now i've got PP2012 coming happy dance

Just got a copy. Looks like they'll have to back order.

 

I got it too! and put in a cancel request for the P9 I got yesterday.

same here, also trying to cancel my P9 order (so i may end up with a copy to sell....)  but what a great deal!  merry christmas to me!

lost in the wilderness

Poser 13, Poser11,  Win7Pro 64, now with 24GB ram

ooh! i guess i can add my new render(only) machine!  Win11, I7, RTX 3060 12GB

 My Freebies

they already processed my cancel request, so you should be able to.

I'm surprised at this PP2012 sale. Yesterday they listed only one copy of the software as available. Only 10 or Poser 9. Guess it is selling well. Hopefully they are getting a new shipment shortly. To those who bought it, you will be happy with it. Enjoy. 

Holy crap. That's a good price.  I shoulda waited!

I despise you ppl with.....money. LMAO

Laurie

So am I nuts or is this right.  If I flat out buy PP2012 as if a brand new customer, I can get it from Smith Micro for $200.  But being a loyal Poser customer that has been buying and upgrading from Poser 1 to Poser 8, I have to pay $250 for an upgrade version?

Also for those talking of Amazon Lightning Deals.  Is there a way to get a notice before had of when a lightnig deal is coming up for a product?

 

Mike

Quote - So am I nuts or is this right.  If I flat out buy PP2012 as if a brand new customer, I can get it from Smith Micro for $200.  But being a loyal Poser customer that has been buying and upgrading from Poser 1 to Poser 8, I have to pay $250 for an upgrade version?

Mike

Exactly.

Laurie

Quote - Also for those talking of Amazon Lightning Deals.  Is there a way to get a notice before had of when a lightnig deal is coming up for a product?

You can check each morning; the day's deals are listed, along with what time they will go "live."  (Look in the software section.)

You can also check here; people will often post a message when they see Poser for a good price.

Quote - Also for those talking of Amazon Lightning Deals.  Is there a way to get a notice before had of when a lightnig deal is coming up for a product?  

Mike

 

That was my question a couple days ago. First thing in the morning, go to Amazon.com "All Deals" and click on "upcoming" then "software" it will tell you exactly what time it will go live.

 

Looks like AutoCad 2012 will be up in 2 hours O.o