The Daz Studio and Related Product Deals Thread (Daz3D, Renderosity, Renderotica, etc.)

[amster22]

At renderosity, 75% off 80 assets (only today) Coupon friendly, very good discount, but the items are **VERY** old

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[OhWee]

Just a note about the Daz3D.com sales.

The discount stacking has definitely been creeping into Lightning Deals, so keep an eye on those if such things interest you.

Also, just noting that if you are looking for an excuse to get an extra 10% or 19% (if Daz+ member) off your cart (including gift cards) this hair is notable should you want to re-create the 'classic' Superman 1979 look (just don't add the included beard)... It's set up for G9 and G8/8.1 which will help a tiny bit r.e. smart content if you have a bunch of G8 characters still in use.

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Not the BEST deal as far as cheap prereq new items go, but figured I'd note it. Also comes with a beard. Most people won't really care though, but if you do occasional Superhero homages... and the extra 19% off applies to new releases at least, every little bit helps...

19% off for a gift card (with catch-up new release) is not particularly notable, but if you should be in need of an immediate store credit recharge for some reason, better than nothing. The June Daz+ sale should be just around the corner, I have my doubts that it will be as good as the October 2023 sale, but it'd be nice if it was...

Between the various sales, a number of legacy/back catalog items are 80% off or more (which includes a few G8 era items alongside the usual G3 or older stuff), before the 19% 'catch-up w/prereq new release' sale, then there's the 20% off wishlist items that you wishlisted before 5/17/24 still in play from another sale, as previously noted by Schlongborn .

So not the BEST group of sales of course, but if your stars should align with multiple lightning deals during the same 4 hour period, well could be a thought. Also, if you haven't burned your Daz+ coupons yet, this could also help. I still hate those stupid tokens, but yesterday I grabbed a 'catch-up' new release alongside about $20 of other items after the $6 off of $18 was applied, and ended up getting six tokens, setting me up for a followup today.

I'm still pissed about all of the extra sort options that are now 'Daz Deals Pro'. All of this should be default functionality in the Daz3D.com store to begin with. I haven't tried out the script that was shared earlier in this thread for wishlisted items yet, not sure if any of those other sort options could be worked into said script. It looks like a bit of extra work (i.e. manually setting up the URLs to get the script to work), but yeah 'show only owned' is useful to me, as sometimes it's just faster to use that sort option than to try to find it in my Daz Studio install.

But I digress. Mainly just wanted to note the 'curly lock' Knight Hair that I linked for people that care about such things. At the very least, might be worth wishlisting for later when it's cheaper...

 

[glassware]

I'm still pissed about all of the extra sort options that are now 'Daz Deals Pro'. All of this should be default functionality in the Daz3D.com store to begin with. I haven't tried out the script that was shared earlier in this thread for wishlisted items yet, not sure if any of those other sort options could be worked into said script. It looks like a bit of extra work (i.e. manually setting up the URLs to get the script to work), but yeah 'show only owned' is useful to me, as sometimes it's just faster to use that sort option than to try to find it in my Daz Studio install.

FWIW I've been using the wishlist script since it was posted and it works great.

 

[Schlongborn]

Do you guys want that new bundle? The forum people figured out you can get it for 22.81$ with 8 tokens. They missed that you can actually put 13 free items (4 free ones from 3 categories and one additional one from another promo) into the cart. Instead of only 10. Maybe that's actually a good deal, if you have tokens, comes out to something like ~65$ for 33 items.

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65$ is from the post where someone tried to find the cheapest items necessary, not really my strategy cause I would always try to get something I actually want.

Also, tomorrow is memorial day sale, so maybe it will be even cheaper then.

 

[Schlongborn]

It is cheaper today, 17.74$ now with the same cart. My entire cart is 12$ less today. Plus an additional new release.

EDIT: Actually, I bought it yesterday, so sucks to be me today. I thought that jungle promo thing would be gone today, but it isn't. So, if you want to buy it, today you can still while all those stacking opportunities are active. If they remove the jungle promo tomorrow then the price is going to go up again.

 

[OhWee]

Schlongborn

Most of us have been there at least once. It's the nature of the beast. We feel your pain.

I tried the cart Jenga yesterday, but once I figured out that the MightyMite discount didn't stack with other offers (other MM item discounts locked at 70% off, which just isn't enough) and that the stuff in the cart was too expensive for me (tokens weren't aligned), I was looking at $66+, and the stuff in the cart was just 'maybe I'll use this at some point, maybe not' not 'stuff I need', and battling wishlist issues, I dumped my cart.

But yeah, I've kicked myself at least once for 'missing' a sale or puling the trigger 'too early', 'cuz you can never predict Daz sales. I've even noticed that they've stopped listing expiry dates on at least one coupon offer recently.

I hate this game. I used to be pretty good at playing it, now I just want straight up, customer friendly sales with no bullshit and no evil tokens. Oh, and all of those extra Daz Deals sort options being incorporated as 'default website functionality'. Or just give the Daz Deals guys their affiliate status back so that we don't have to pay extra for the privilege.

That 20% off entire cart 1/2 store on sale sale does look interesting though. Just put the Art Gallery in my cart, was around $10. So not too bad as prereqs go if you could use a 20% off gift card to recharge your store credit.

 

[Schlongborn]

I've come to the conclusion that they can only do those insane sales because on average, people don't manage to get the best deals with all that complexity. That is also why they have those tokens, they make you want to spend them while you have them, so you're more inclined to just go and buy some stuff instead of wait. I feel like most of the time it is better to wait.

Also, right now those sales might look kind of good, but last year their summer sale was exceptional. If they do that again then you should definitely keep some of that precious gift card money now for what happens next months. Of course, no one really knows. But I suspect waiting will, again, be rewarded with better sales.

 

[amster22]

At daz3D, the "Memorial Day" sale continues. Some discounts are very good, but they have suppressed most stacking opportunities.

But if you need a gift card, today's the day. You get 10% off GCs, and with an "Entire New Release" an extra 20% off your cart, giving a final 28% of gift cards, which is excellent. More there are 30+ "Entire" items that can give this extra 20% off discount.

 

[glassware]

But if you need a gift card, today's the day. You get 10% off GCs, and with an "Entire New Release" an extra 20% off your cart, giving a final 28% of gift cards, which is excellent. More there are 30+ "Entire" items that can give this extra 20% off discount.

We haven't seen a better deal since February.

Cheapest new release you can get is a texture set for $9.51--listed at $11.89 but you get an extra 20% off--or $6.66 with 8 tokens (only do this if you have tokens you're not going to otherwise spend*). Or pick some more expensive item you'll actually use, of course!

*Since you're buying the gift card with cash, there's no gift card discount, so you shouldn't have anything in the cart except the new release and the gift card(s)--anything else you're overpaying from not having gift card discount. So you're using the tokens only on the one new release. So it's only worth doing if you have tokens to spare.

 

[amster22]

At renderosity, 75% off ~100 items (only today). The discount is high, the sale is coupon friendly (which is rather rare now), but the items are *very* old. (TBH haven't found anything interesting, but YMMV)

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[Schlongborn]

Another sale for 30% off of gift cards going on right now.

EDIT: Yeah, I also did the thinking face.

 

[glassware]

Daz3D is having a sale on 1200 bundles right now. 40-60% off depending on how old, plus an additional 50% off that if you buy 3 (w/ coupon code).

If you previously bought the new Ultrascenery 2, you also get 20% off all orders from an orange banner. In combination with 8 tokens, that brings these bundles down to 91% off.

 

[glassware]

Daz3d has 20% off entire order w/ 3 new releases.

If you're lucky enough to have the orange banner for Ultrascenery 2 w/ 20% off entire order, that stacks and you get 36% off entire order, including gift cards. Pretty sure we haven't seen GCs for more than 30% off except for accidental stacking cases, so that's pretty good if you want the new releases.

But if you don't want any of the new releases and just buy them to get the deal, then compared to the 30% a couple days ago, it's not that great. The three cheapest items combined cost about $25, so if we just count that as an extra cost for the GC:

- $100 gift card for $64+$25 = 11% off GC effectively
- $500 gift card for $320+$25 = 31% off GC effectively
- $1000 (2 gift cards) for $640+$25 = 34% off GC effectively.

With 8 tokens the three cheapest items combined cost $18:
- $100 gift card for $64+$18 = 18% off GC effectively
- $500 gift card for $320+$18 = 33% off GC effectively
- $1000 (2 gift cards) for $640+$18 = 35% off GC effectively.

So probably not worth it unless you actually want one or two of the new releases or a LOT of store credit (2+ gift cards).

(Also, the extra 20% off applies to the bundle deal from yesterday, so you can get them for 91% off w/o the orange banner, or even more w/ the orange banner. Unfortunately, the bundle coupon was one-use only and I used it yesterday.)

 

[Schlongborn]

I am wondering if that means the summer sale is going to be good, or if it means the summer sale is going to be bad. I remember that one time we had gift card discounts of almost 50% and after that they had really bad sales for a while. I know because I bought stuff with that super gift card money and then regretted it.

EDIT: Someone in the forum mentioned that you can just buy Ultra Scenery 2 and then you get the extra 20%, if you haven't already.

 

[glassware]

EDIT: Someone in the forum mentioned that you can just buy Ultra Scenery 2 and then you get the extra 20%, if you haven't already.

Thanks, that's important to know! I'd been assuming that to get the orange banner you had to already have the product at the time they issued the banner. I wonder if you buy UltraScenery 2 now you'll even see the banner, or if you just get the deal secretly without any way of knowing.

So for those who do, the deal was "20% off whole cart for the rest of the month", i.e. it expires tonight at Daz midnight.

UltraScenery 2 will cost you something like an extra $25, $15 with 8 tokens, so it might be worth it for a big order, especially if you might actually use it. It sounds like you have to buy it first to trigger the deal, then the next order will apply it.

However, it's not worth doing it just to get 36% off gift cards unless you actually want UltraScenery 2 or you actually want 3 new releases (or both). If you don't actually want it, your effective discount won't even hit 30% on a $500 gift card. Detailed explanation that you shouldn't read:

Let's say you have some store credit you got from a 20% off gift card, and you have 16 tokens.

To buy gift cards, you'll need to spend cash. But you can buy UltraScenery 2 first as a separate deal, using store credit.

Assuming you don't want any new releases, so just using cheapest 3, we'll save those for the gift card.

UltraScenery 2 with no additional discount:

• $45.49 store credit

It's a Daz Original, so with 8 tokens you get 45% off that:

• $25.02 store credit

If the store credit came from a 20% off gift card, then it's equivalent to buying a $25 gift card with 20% off:

• $20 cash

Meanwhlie if you want to use the deal from 3 new releases to buy a discounted gift card, that requires using cash since they have to be in the cart with the cash-only gift card; with another 8 tokens and having already purchased UltraScenery 2 that's:

• $18 cash

So either of these deals alone isn't that great (it's just a 20% gift card); both combined are 36%, but it'll cost you $38 cash on top, more if you don't have 16 tokens. And $38 on top isn't great:

• $100 gift card for $64+$38 = -2% off GC effectively
• $500 gift card for $320+$38 = 28% off GC effectively
• $1000 (2 gift cards) for $640+$38 = 32% off GC effectively.

So overall not that great. But if you actually WANT UltraScenery 2 or you want the new releases and consider them worth $6 each, it's reasonable. Note that you can also get some cheap "grab bag" items with UltraScenery 2, although I think all of them are things that've been heavily discounted previously.

 

[NorthMan8]

I am wondering if that means the summer sale is going to be good, or if it means the summer sale is going to be bad.

It depends on your preferences, generally. For some it may be good, for others it may be bad, y'know?

 

[Schlongborn]

It depends on your preferences, generally. For some it may be good, for others it may be bad, y'know?

That's kind of cryptic. Do you mean as in the PAs would see a "bad" sale as "good", and the customers would see it the other way around? Or do you literally just mean some stuff is going to be on sale and some not?

 

[NorthMan8]

That's kind of cryptic. Do you mean as in the PAs would see a "bad" sale as "good", and the customers would see it the other way around? Or do you literally just mean some stuff is going to be on sale and some not?

The PA thing is a valid point tbh, it's not uncommon for them to have different visions from the customers or being detached from reality

 

[OhWee]

So it appears that the Daz+ Summer Sale has kicked off.

I miss the old sales. No BYOB this time that I can see, or Daz+ sale bundle, Daz+ for a Day is more expensive this time, so far anyways...

Buy-ins to trigger discounts aren't cheap either, and I don't have the energy to min-max stuff right now.

60% off Daz+ memberships with 'new' prereq item, not bad if you were buying the new item anyways to trigger discounts, so there's that.

And I haven't been playing the token game/been spending very frugally, so yeah I'm not in position to maximize anything atm.

I'll leave it to the experts to dissect this sale. Y'all have more mental energy and patience for such things these days!

 

[Falcon6]

I'll leave it to the experts to dissect this sale. Y'all have more mental energy and patience for such things these days!

Heck, I've been following this thread for the past few days just out of curiosity. Even with the "experts" describing all the different "sale combinations" I wouldn't be sure if I was getting a "good deal" or not. Tickets, tokens, gift cards, combinations of them, time limits, etc, etc. Why the hell DAZ has to make their purchasing so darned complex is ridiculous and absurd, unless it is DESIGNED to confuse the customer. It starts right from the time they list a new product at say a price of $20-ish, then like clockwork in a short period of time it will be "30% off" or something similar at a lesser price. It all reminds me of marketing schemes that use the word "SALE!" all the time, like the customer is getting a "great deal" or something. Hell...if something is being "sold" at ALL, it is ALREADY "on sale". If it was over-priced at release to begin with, then "Sale!" just means it was reduced to a more realistic price at the "SALE!" time. Daz asset marketing and pricing seems like it's all a mental marketing game to confuse the customer and milk them of as much money as possible, taken to the EXTREME ways of doing it. The last thing I'd ever do is buy "bundled" products OR "combination deals" that include things I would never want anyhow. It's the way to sell things that won't sell profitably on their own to begin with.

Just observations about all of this. I have nothing against anyone who likes to play these marketing games. I just don't participate with companies that do them. And they are probably just going to continue (or get worse?) at DAZ now that DAZ has "acquired" many of the developers from places like Renderosity, etc. It's getting closer to becoming a monopoly on Daz Studio asset purchasing by them.