Big changes taking place... (go to the store)

I came, I rendered, I'm still broke.

Wow, no kidding.

I thought that my clutter would eventually get better, but now I know that won't happen!

Yep! There are some major changes and major savings to be had! I just bought the Platinum membership (on special offer) for $50 and a bunch of goodies for $16 ($1.99 each), that would have normally cost over $175. Even if I had bought the annual membership for $99 (normal price), it would have paid for itself already!! ~Di

so when will they stop requiring vendors to carry exclusive products? won't be going anywhere near there until they do........

Holy Cow, This is great just been downloading my heart out. Bye back to see if I missed anything. :O)

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CuriousLabs better get their Content Room working pretty quickly. Kinda like the stock market, the poser market is running up n up. Hope Curiouslabs doesnt miss the ball. I think I'll hold off on buying a Daz Membership wait til all the dust settles n see whats going on.

I rushed over there and purchased the membership. Now I have to wait until I get home tonight and suck the store dry! ;-) I'd bought several of the items in the Platinum Club at full price, but there's so much stuff in there that I don't care! (And they were worth full price, btw.) I think I'm going to spend more on items tonight than I spent on the membership today. What's that puddle of plastic on my desk? That was my credit card!

Andix, why do you think DAZ should stop requiring exclusive items? It helps make their site unique. If you could get everything everywhere, it would make for less competition, less marketplace individuality. My opinion. If I were a talented-enough modeler, I'd think it would be an honor to be represented by DAZ. They are a class act (which is not to dis' any other marketplace.)

Crescent know the feeling well! lol Marque

Yikes! Just got my membership. I'm going crazy with the new stuff, and the old stuff I wanted, but couldn't afford! This is freaking great!

I got my membership Ok But for some reason I'm not being given a download option on the product I ve bought. All that great stuff just out of reach! I've mailed daz I hope thay sort it out this is torcher

 

Ijust loaded 30 items in my cart, and was continuing, then the site made me log in again, and my cart was empty. Ah well, I'll do it 10 at a time.

pdx always sign in first. Ron

I did Ron. It threw me out. Thats OK though, for what I'm getting for the price, I don't really mind. Wow! I haven't even gotten to figures yet!

Daz does have a non-exclsusive agreement for model makers. For exclusive sales the artist gets 50%, non-exclusive is not listed. So you see they do offer it, the artists just don't go for it.

Just got a whole bunch of stuff there from the platinum club, looks good value

Oh my god, I'm going to be so broke, but so totally stock with tons of killer stuff.

It is like being a kid in a candy shop and the owner just said he's rolling the prices back to the 1950's prices. Penny Poser!

Oh Man, what a brilliant marketing strategy. Very, very tempted to shell out the $$. If they actually gave you any products with the purchase I don't think I'd be able to resist at all. I also noted that the one expensive product I want the most isn't part of the platinum club dangit! Argggh. Seriously though, this is just great news.

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I just got 13 items some of which I thought I'd never be able to afford... I finally had to tell myself "You can stop for now, the items aren't going away". :) This is almost better than Christmas. Thank you, DAZ!!!

well, I spent about $30 for items that would have cost me just over $400. (not including membership) Someone mentioned that Daz brokers are only exclussive, they didnt used to be... you could opt to be non exclussive but get a smaller share of profits... maybe that's changed? Doug

I came, I rendered, I'm still broke.

It's felt like christmas all morning.

I filled up my cart so I could purchase everything later (I have NO patience!) and the cart overturned while I was selecting items. Talk about a massive clean up on aisle four. ;-) I don't know if I took too long, if there was a network hiccup, or if my credit card somehow did a magical pre-emptive strike to save what little limit is left, but my basket emptied itself. Yes, I was logged in while I selected items. It suddenly forgot who I was, made me log in again, and there was nothing in my basket. (Did someone steal my cart while I wasn't looking?) I may have to make my purchases in multiple installments. :-(

Good news indeed, too bad my other half got laid off :(

Oh no!!!

I guess DAZ won't be happy until I declare bankruptcy!!

$150 so far, and I haven't even gotten to the Vicky stuff, or all the Mike clothing textures I want. Wish it had started a week ago, I could have saved $50 on things I got last week. I'm calling it quits for today. I'm worn out just downloading and installing. I still have to put everything in their correct libraries. Whew! This is one great deal. Someone was mentioning that Poserland was drying up. Daz seems to have put the kiabash on that idea.

I'll be interested in seeing how this pans out. As far as I have seen so far Daz hasn't come up with any Poser 5 specific content so far. The python scripts I've bought, for instance, will only run under Poser 4 Pro Pack. When Daz releases it's own application I am concerned that eventually Poser won't be supported at all. But this is all speculation as there is little information available. Although I'm tempted to join the club, I just don't have $50.00 lying around right now to do it. I'll be looking to hear what people are experiencing from their memberships.

Well, DAZ does sell Morphos which is a Python script. It runs under Poser 5 if set up correctly. I would be interested in seeing which Python scripts don't work in Poser 5. So far, I haven't found any.

Yummy. Now, what is this Loft thingie?

"I could have saved $50 on things I got last week."

*"I just purchased an item at full price, and now it's available in the Platinum Savings Club for $1.99?
Is there a 30-day price guarantee?"

"If you have purchased a product at normal price within the last 30-days, that is now offered in the Platinum Savings Club for $1.99, we will honor the Platinum Savings Club price if you have a membership."*

Daz will not be doing anything for Poser 5 as they don't own it and won't own it due to the eula. They've already said this. Marque

andix said 'so when will they stop requiring vendors to carry exclusive products? won't be going anywhere near there until they do........ ' andix, You seem to have a bee in your bonnet about this. (2 DAZ threads in the space of a few hours where you make this same comment). 1. Why shouldn't they want their vendors products to be exclusive? That's successful marketing. Provide a high-quality product that no one else has at a good price. It's good for the customers, good for the site and good for the vendors. 2. If you don't want to go near DAZ because of this policy, fine. But can I ask you why? Is it as a customer and in protest against this policy? Or as a vendor who refuses to sell through DAZ? If you're a customer, I can't see what the hell difference it makes to you. If you're a vendor, you can take it from me - as someone who brokers through DAZ, I'm more than happy to be exclusive to them. DAZ has shown over and over again that they are WAY AHEAD of anyone else in the world of Poser, when it comes to marketing and customer service. mac And, BTW, the Platinum Club is only one of many new things on the way.

I wonder how long the discounted membership will last. I didn't see anything on the site and I don't have $50 to spend on a membership at this time. Kind of reminds me of trying to scrape together the rest of the money to pre-order Poser 5 and was disappointed after it shipped. I also wonder if non-platinum members will still have discounts on new items, or do we all have to go platinum. Seems there should be more of an incentive for those who have already spent thousands at their store. I'll have to wait on this one.

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I'm off to DAZ...so those prices last night when I posted the meassage about the Platinum Club...its great !!!!

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Wow...just was going through the P stuff...so many items that I have wanted to buy, but never did....now I can :)

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Spudgirl call them and explain they may hold it over for you for one day. Marque

::If you're a vendor, you can take it from me - as someone who brokers through DAZ, I'm more than happy to be exclusive to them. DAZ has shown over and over again that they are WAY AHEAD of anyone else in the world of Poser, when it comes to marketing and customer service.:: Hear, hear, Mclean!

Maclean said: DAZ has shown over and over again that they are WAY AHEAD of anyone else in the world of Poser, when it comes to marketing and customer service. ~~~~~~~~~ Do you know how much of an honour it is to actually make something worthy of Daz? I was TOTALLY beside myself when they wanted to put my Phoebe up in their store. And as for exclusive, like that's a problem! If any vendor didn't want to be exclusive with their product at Daz doesn't HAVE to sell with them anyway. There are plenty of other stores through which to sell.

Time for bed... But tomorrow, "Toy time!" :)

Wynter + Xena, Glad someone sees my point. I only have a couple of things at DAZ (because it takes me so long to make anything - LOL), but when I did finally have something worth selling, I tried DAZ first, and was VERY happy when they accepted it, because I know they have pretty high standards. If they had rejected it, then I'd have gone elsewhere, but I'm glad I didn't have to. I like high standards because they work 2 ways. It means the customers only get high-quality stuff, but more importantly, it makes me try harder too. I'll only submit stuff to DAZ if I know it's good, so I take my time and make sure it's right. Which is the way it should be. mac

I got my membership last night. I could have sworn I posted the "discovery" of the "new Daz" last night ... guess it didn't go through or something. Anyway, does anyone know what the "LOFT" section (currently non-clickable) is going to be? -Tim

Tim I was wondering that myself :) Mac, I agree with your two-fold idea as well. I try to make everything high quality, but submissions to Daz (and now Poser Pros) need that added extra to make them worthy.

In response to the Python script issue above. I'd tried running PC Brothers lighting scripts in Poser five, but they crashed. Has anyone else had a similar experience. If you know a trick to get them to go in Poser 5 please let me know. I've not tried Morphos. I read in another thread that Poser 5 Python is a different version than P4.

Morphos does indeed work, but you need to make sure all the files are in the correct place. You can't run it from the Poser 4 directory. It does need to be installed in he Poser 5 Runtime. Was the light sets installed in the Poser 5 runtime library?

Tomsada, Python Scripts that have the "pyc" extension instead of the "py" don't work in P5. I'm hoping the creators of such Scripts take not and make them available in a format modified to work in P5 (especially Pc Bos).

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looks at his product looks at there product hrm... they stole my products name.... how sweet...

Well, I bought the membership. And I bought enough stuff that I've already re-couped my membership fee. But I already have probably half the stuff. I buy most of Anton's stuff. And alot of it is Anton's stuff. Let's see, I already have the MCFS, the olympians, the pop stars, the egyptians, the chaning ponytail, the storybook dragon, the adventurers. Heck, I can't remember all that I already have. It's still a good deal though. Kevin

OH I have been having too much fun...I got the membership and then lots of cool stuff....cannot believe the amount of stuff for the price!...wow...just put it all in my poser program ....burp....hope they have more stuff too!

YouInOhio: Same here ... I was a little disappointed in the fact that I own most (not all) of the items they're displaying. But I have faith they will be releasing quality merchandise in the near future that will more than make up for it. Especially with Anton at the helm .. or co-helm, whatever the case may be. -Tim

Don't forget..you also get 30% off DAZ original products...even when they're on sale.... So I guess that would mean...for instance..the Millenium Dragon would have been only $14 or so....

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Can you use DAZ vouchers to further discount the Platinum Club membership price? How about applying the 30-day price guarantee to items previously bought on sale and with vouchers? So if I got the Adventurers a few weeks back for $2.47 after the Medieval Sale and voucher deductions, could I get it for $1.99 and save the $0.48... or even re-use the vouchers on other things? ;)

Hi there, Wow lots of comments. Glad you like it. Lots of cool stuff coming too. I wanted to address a few questions or comments -$1.99 is the minimum discount. Sorry. :) - members receive a permanent 30% discount off Daz Premiere Store items but not in addition to other discounts. What this means is that you can get your 30% savings this week or next month without pressure to buy. We can't do 60% discounts. Sorry -More on the Loft soon. It will be the third zone added. -The inventory doesn't rotate like a sale section. What is there now will always be there tomorrow. -The Platinum Club will always require a membership. (Someone speculated that memberships were a temporary thing) -We will add to it weekly. We thought about a free gift but we figured 50% off membership was a better idea. :) Anton Kisiel Daz3D Platinum Club anton@daz3d.com PS: Please feel free to email ideas and suggestions for products to me directly.

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PSS: Platinum Club products have the "P" on their thumbnail in the Premier Store(regular store we all know). So the regular store is now called "Premier".

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• members receive a permanent 30% discount off Daz Premiere Store items but not in addition to other discounts. What this means is that you can get your 30% savings this week or next month without pressure to buy. We can't do 60% discounts. Sorry Yes you can... it says so in the FAQ. Go read it. FAQ --> What is the Platinum Savings Club and what are the benefits of joining? The Platinum Savings Club is for members only. Here are the benefits included in the membership. *Only $1.99 (one dollar and ninety-nine cents) for all Platinum Savings Club products THIS IS IT!!! ---> *30% off all DAZ original products, including 30% off products already on sale *Price comparisons *Continual expansion of inventory *Quality DAZ customer service and support ------------------------------------------------------

THIS IS IT!!! ---> > *30% off all DAZ original products, including 30% off products already on sale One could read that as a flat 30% off the products in total, as 30% off the sale price of products already on sale, or 30% off the original price in addition to the 30% off from the sale. In other words, that language could mean that with a Platinum membership, DAZ products on sale for 30% off could actually be (a) 30% off, (b) 51% off, or (c) 60% off. It's ambiguous, but Anton seems to have clarified that (a) is the correct interpretation.

So, if it is on sale at 40% off, we get the thing for our 30%? That doesn't make much sense.

DanFarr said ---> With a club membership you will also be able to save 30% off of the advertized price of DAZ created products in the main section of the store. Now does advertised prices mean sales too?

Hmmm. Mabey they changed it and forgot to tell me. Let me check with Dan tomorrow and find out who typed the FAQ and what they are wanting to do. Sorry for the confusion. That is the type od typo that can get someone canned. Yikes. I will find out tomorrow and clearify my statement. Catch ya later, Anton

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"And that's not all, you can also save 30% off DAZ original products (even sale items)! " - AnneMarie White must be a misunderstanding somewhere, but this is minor compared to getting heaps of stuff i've had on my wishlist for nearly a year now at 1.99 :)~~ so as greenbd asked above, if platinum club gives you 30% off... and a sales gives you 30% off... do you get: (a) 30% off, (b) 51% off, or (c) 60% off thanks, i guess we find out tomorrow.

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Thanks Anton.. I realize how late/early it is.. Just want to be clear on what is offered.

Anton, Just wanted to say thanks to you guys - and keep it up! This is a good idea, both saleswise for you guys, and for the poser users. (specially broke ones like me) All the new content looks cool - keep coming with the sci-fi stuff and modern clothes :) And I FINALLY got your changing ponytail. Hah! wanders off gloating Lyrra

Yeah I was wrong. Working off site has it's disadvantages. Sorry for my mistake. You're right. Dan will swoop in later and make it official. :)

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Platinum Club is the coolest, but in response to some issues brought up in this thread... I wish DAZ and other marketplaces would be more careful about some of their ads. They continue to list items as being on sale when they no longer are. (E.G. yesterday the Hydra was listed in an ad as being 40% off, but if you put went to the actual product page or put it in your shopping cart, it was full price.) I recently had a frustrating incident along these lines here at Renderosity. An item was advertised as being on sale a few days after it no longer was. I IM'd the merchants, one of whom promised to make up for my disappointment with what appeared to be a generous offering. I in turn promised to return as a customer as frequently as possible. The merchant then failed to follow through, and didn't respond to a second notice that the outdated ad was still appearing the next day. (I was non-accusatory and polite.) Broken promises suck. I fully understand how difficult it can be to maintain a large online marketplace, which is why I try not to get too upset by these things. There's the human side of business to consider. On the other hand, such sloppiness, no matter how "understandable," can lead to consumer frustration which in turn leads to diminished sales. I know I'll never buy anything from the R'osity merchant I'm speaking of, again. He was wrong to make a promise, then fail to deliver. But that's just one person. (And to be fair, Clint offered a polite explanation regarding the ad.) DAZ' customer service is very professional and friendly when there's a problem, which goes a long way to smooth out any wrinkles and maintain good relations. Still, youze guyz should remove those ads when they're no longer true! Just a friendly suggestion to all online merchants.

Yippee!! Get out of this gal's way, she is going shopping at DAZ!! Thanks Anton!!

I have to wait till tomorrow when I get a big reimbursement from work. WAAAAAH! On the other hand, considering how everyone is probably causing the server to smoke from the customer load.... Anton, ya the man. Looking forward to all sorts of new goodies.