Quote - Could some one tell Dartenback the a Carrara .5 update at $171 is no sort of "major bargen" considering I got the full upgrade from C7 to C8 for $120.

This somehting that is really starting to hack me off. DAZ cheerleaders desperatly trying to convince people that the .5 upgrade is worth $85 more then a full upgrade.Especially when all you are getting aside from some tweaks and bug fixes is genesis compatability. All they are paying for is the ability to spend more.

Are they still going to be singing that tune when they see the C8 to C9 upgrade pushing $600 {which is 3X the C7 to C8 upgrade}or more; and from the look of it far more.

And considering the way DAZ has greiviously over priced C8.5 update, do you have any doubt C9 wont be well over $500? And considering how much under that posted price of the C8.5 update I was; in my worst case senario, don't be surpised if the C9 upgrade pushes a grand. No joke.

At this point it would not surprise me in the least if the C9 upgrade comes in at $800-1000. But DAZ will of coarse thow up it's sales smoke and mirrors "Don't look at the actually price of $800 over here, look at this super special limtied time discount that brings the cost to you down to $280.

And of coarse all the DAZ cheerleads will jump around and sing their praises to the great giver of content DAZ. DAZ the all powerful, DAZ the all might, DAZ perfection incarnate.

A house built on delusion crumbs when hit by reality.

I still reading the DAZ forum. My responce to this http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/28263/P60 is "welcome to DAZ, you paid for this, enjoy". If the forums weren't so heavily censored people would know this is SOP for DAZ and has only gotten worse over the last couple of years.

A week long wait for sales and service to fix a major error in billing would promp me to get a full refund.

Agree, current price for this .5 update is NOT, in my opinion, a reasonable price. Sure, you can get it for 85 something bucks, but that's after you pay 25 for the privilege. And I also am not overly optimistic about a 'reasonable' price being charged for 9. I'm not too optimistic that there will even be a version 9. Especially on the timetable that DAZ has set.

Went and read that thread. Wow! This is one 'suck egg' weekend for those new purchasers of C 8.5. I'm surprised some of those posts are still there to be read.