How do you manage your wishlist?
Drogo Nazhur
Posts: 1,117
When I see something on my wishlist on sale for more than 50% off, that is when I decide to either buy it or remove it from the wishlist and forget about it..
What do others do?
Post edited by Drogo Nazhur on
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2024 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
I used to do that when I was buying things. It seemed like the system worked best for people who can stare at an item for a year without buying it. I don't know what it's like now.
I throw everything on that looks like it'll be vaguely useful at some point, and I leave it there. You never know when there'll be a really good wishlist sale. I have a bookmark folder of stuff that's holding me up from accomplishing a render, or that I know I'll need soon, and that helps me to quick check prices on the stuff that's more important.
With my very limited budget, I have to wait for significantly more than 50% off before I pull the trigger, and sometimes even then I have to be responsible and pass. If I have to wait a year (or more), then I wait. I have more than enough stuff to keep me busy in the meantime.
Does that mean you are not buying things?
I have an extensive WL, and I wouldn't mind having most everything on it. Even so, I only really care about about 10% of what's on there. Those are the items I;m looking for. I have parameters for purchase, and I rarely break them. I don't especially care how long something sits on the list. Every so often, I go through and remove things - I forget why I added them, or they don't look that great to me after all. It's all first-world problems - I already have more content than I can use.
I have 880 items on my whishlist at the moment, and I probably add 2 or 3 items every day. It's way too large though and it feels like I need a wishlist for my wishlist. Sometimes I go through my list and look for items that I've already bought something similar from another vendor that I'm happy with, and I remove those items.
Some of my stuff I have nwver seen on sale for 50+% off and they been on there for years. Of course, I don't live on this website. They might have been on one of those 6-hour flash sales and I didn't see it. Another reason why those type of sales might not be the best business decision but what do I know.
I would really love some search functionality on the wishlist... or at least the ability to filter by content type. It seems odd to me that most of the filtering options for the store go away on the wishlist.
What is there to manage?
I put stuff on my wishlist for the occational wishlist sales, but I hardly ever check the wishlist for things to buy as the wishlist doesn't show the discounts that are available at the moment with the stacking discounts.
I check the rotating sales and look at the special offers for wishlisted items
Current wishlist is 4308 items
The "limited budget" I handle the same way. I've always had a relatively small wishlist (<200) because I only put what I really was interested in. Lately, I've been adding more "interesting but not must-have (someday)" things because of wishlist sales & in hopes Daz repeats the "free or $3" choice this coming Christmas, which mostly came from one's wishlist.
It does. According to the records in the DAZ order history, the last item I paid for was "Taye HD" for Genesis 8.1 in September of 2022.
Wow! I'm impressed. Even when I was most annoyed, I still bought a few items here and there.
I don't really manage it, I see my wishlist more as something to highlight interesting stuff during sales.
For a while, I had a dozen "priority interests" in my bookmarks for things I really wanted on the short term, but don't really use that method anymore.
I wouldn't mind some system to add grades to our wishlist, like 5 hearts for things I really want down to 1 heart for something "I could probably use sometime". Obviously no hearts at all for stuff I really have no interest in or haven't even seen yet. Maybe some feature like that made it's way into the Daz-Deals addon by now, but I no longer use that, since for some reason I can't pay for that addon through paypal (might be a regional limitation? Dunno), and the useful features of the addon are all behind the paywall.
That's some of my thinking as well. I started this adventure at the very end of October last year, and of course walked in clueless to potential bargains like that. So my wishlist when the "free or $3" sale started was... not robust. Or at least not with things that would've qualified for it. Most of what I got offered was ancient skimpwear armor or texture add-ons for things I didn't have. (Though I did get Daz Dog 8 and a few other things that were serious wins, too.) Not sure if it'll happen again, but if it does, this time I'm ready!!
After my crazed buying of the last year, there are not many legacy things left that I really need. (OK, sure, as the end of the year rolls around, I may find some to wishlist just to have.) What I mainly do is check the day's new items and wishlist things I can use, then buy them as sales opportunities permit. After buying everything (except two brand-new items) on my wishlist at that last big wishlist sale that included very recent additions, I have about a dozen wishlisted items at the moment.
I used to keep a wishlist of 3-4 pages, back when Daz sale prices were reliably reflected in the stated prices. I could just look at the wishlist and see which of the things I wanted were a good buy.
Then Daz started structuring their sales so that the sale price usually isn't shown in the stated item price. So I ditched the wishlist altogether, since it wasn't accomplishing anything.
Then Daz started offering occasional wishlist sales. So I put back a few items I intend to buy in the near future. Only a few, though, since I still no longer can shop off the wishlist.
i used to use it like a real wishlist, but now I just keep it as a way to remember my favorite PAs, so I have one item each from all the PAs I like to keep tabs on, to see what they are creating from time to time. Unfortunately this seems to be the only 3D site where you can't follow your favorite creators any other way.
Another thing I do. Some items are both sold separately & as part of a 3-4 item mini-bundle, such as character/hair/outfit, character/outfit/outfit add-on, or a (more or less) themed set. I usually wishlist both bundle and individual items, even when I don't want everything. Sometimes the bundle goes on sale at a lower price than the desired item usually hits. Happens more than you'd think, especially since Lightning Deals started. If I do buy the wanted model first I usually remove the bundle from my wishlist.
Conversely, with mini-bundles where I want everything, I am often okay with buying piecemeal. There are the "pay for what you don't own" offers to complete those. Plus older DO/D+ content especially often gets as low as $1-$3 each.
I don't do this for Pro, Starter, or big themed bundles, because there's so little in them I want. I don't think I've bought one of the big bundles unless it was a biweekly freebie.
A fair number of items on my wishlist are things I never actually intend to buy but are either neat or inspirational. Particularly the older stuff; I'm never going to want that old Genesis hairdo, but the style of it may inspire me to make something vaguely like it.
I do that, especially with pose sets, or simple everyday items similar to something I may want to model myself one day. I've been collecting images harvested from the web for the same reason.
Regards,
Richard
My wishlist over the years has ranged from 8 pages to currently 3. I am more careful on my purchases now and when I see something I feel that little 'zing' of excitement about, I immediately wishlist it. I may even buy it that day, but if I forget, it is there on the list and not lost. But at times, like now, I am protecting the last of my store credit and waiting on some items that are in the pike I want to buy, like the new Ultra Scenery and Mesh Grabber 4. Payday is in a week when I can renew my gift card, if DAZ has a sale. So, I am wishlisting for now.
I do have items going back a bit, SKUs in the 10000s. They are ones I could use (props mostly) and at prices that might nudge a token level up just enough without hurting me. I did that a couple weeks ago with a collection bin. When I bought a add-on to a new dress without realizing I didn't have the dress yet, the dress was put on the wishlist, and within 3 days, it was in one of those sales and was a fantastic buy. And there will always be another sale.
I also pay for Ati's Add-On. It saves me money and is worth it.
If I really want something I buy it out of the gate. My day is pretty exhausting. I have birds cats dogs fish a disabled hubby and tons of renovation projects one after the other. But I write books, write lyrics and compose music, and build everything from sheds to websites amidst the chaos. My wish-list is for items I missed out on and am waiting to go back on sale( or buy with tokens if I have any accumulated) or items I am only willing to buy at 80%. If it's for a future project, oftentimes it's in my wishlist waiting for tokens or a sale. Ocassionally (under rare circumstances (like Transfer2) it's because I'm on the fence and it may not be a sale that pushes me over.
The best way to sort and have comtrol over a wishlist is to create a spreadsheet. Make a column that has a want value. Meaning how important is this asset. If it's a nine on a scale of one to ten (one being highly desired, 10 being a meh) 50% off is too much to pay.
Mine's been growing. I have cleared a few things off from it with a couple of coupons. But after the past few days, it can stagnate for all I care. I've become rather disillusioned with Daz3D.