Just a note for those of you that may be fairly new to the Daz3D.com store and this thread.
October is just around the corner, which is when Daz3D.com generally kicks off the annual PC+ sale. IMHO some of the best deals of the year have popped up around this time, although as I've noted before the Daz3D.com sales team has IMHO scaled back a number of sales lately.
I mention this should you be looking at grabbing stuff right now. You've heard a few of us use the term 'meh' when describing recent sales. Certainly, if you are trying to acquire assets legally and there is something you need right now for your game, VN, or whatever, that's on sale for 50% or more, that's a consideration, but otherwise I'd personally suggest a 'wait for a better offer' strategy.
That's not to say that really good deals won't pop up between now and October, so if you see people mentioning a particular deal in a very positive manner, of course look it over. Also, if you don't have the Daz Deals plugin for your browser, as a few of us have pointed out before it's quite helpful when you are wondering how often an item might go on sale and for how much it generally gets discounted (before additional coupons, stacking discounts, etc.).
And again, watch here closely for when we mention gift card discounts. If we use the words 'decent discount' or 'really good deal' definitely give it a look. If you shop at the Daz store regularly, you really should be grabbing gift cards when they go on sale for decent discounts, as this discount will translate to better deals on stuff you want down the road. I.E. if you buy say a 25% off gift card, this essentially means that you'll be buying Daz products at an extra 25% off until you deplete that balance.
With October just around the corner, it might helpful to your Daz budget to bank some store credit via gift cards between now and October... when the gift card deals make sense that is!
Also, watch for when we call out good deals on PC+ memberships. If you spend say more than $100 a year at Daz3D.com, it's definitely worth considering, and if you spend $200 or more in a year, it's pretty much a no brainer for most of us around here. You can 'renew early' at any time, and this essentially adds an extra year to your expiration date for the annual membership, FYI.
I'm still not a fan of this whole season pass thing, and I'm hoping that it dies quietly, but enough people are onboard with the hype that it's probably gonna stick around for a while. It's not worth it to me as I've already built up a pretty extensive Daz library at this point, and now have a $2/item or less target for most of my Daz purchases at this point. but maybe it might be useful to someone that has a lot of cash to burn and a tiny Daz library...
Renderosity is a lot more predictable with their sales, at least as far as the discounts typically offered and more importantly they list end dates for their sales, hence why we don't talk about Renderosity as much. There's a lot of cool stuff on Renderosity though, so yeah it's worth a looksee every now and then.
As for the other stores, yeah I like hearing more about those stores, but they aren't mentioned very often around here. Render Hub in particular, I really should start shopping there occasionally, but I have no idea how often and for how much off thier sales are. A lot of their stuff is too expensive for my blood, but there are items that are closer to my comfort zone at least:
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I do really appreciate it when people find coupon deals via Honey or wherever, so please keep pointing those out. They don't always work for me personally, but I've saved a not insignificant amount of dough thanks to people calling out these deals.
I'm rambling, mainly I just wanted to give you 'newbies' to Daz3D.com a heads up about the upcoming PC+ sale in October. And also thank everyone that has called out various deals as they spot them, and also those that take the time to 'translate' various discount stacking deals and such.
