Such a shame that this is so messed up - it should be great way to highlight content we might not have noticed and, working with CYS and Sale! prices, really encourage us to spend more money on the Store.
So far I have not had the owned content problems that have been reported apart from occasionally, and it is only very occasionally, seeing Hidden Springs and Luck Palms Gold. There is no excuse for offering HS as it is clearly shown in my registered content and although I bought LP and the Casino separately any store database worth it's salt would be able to work out I had the full package.
My main problem is the repetition of offers and the fact that it CYS. According to Crinrict's S3SBrowser I own about 73% of the Store but, even so, there's plenty of stuff I could be offered but it just keeps throwing up the same sets and items! :-(
Some examples from the last few days:
Hidden Springs (2000) - owned so true cost is 0sp
Pushin’ Pedals (1250) - but my CYS price is only 585sp
Glitz and Glam Top (75)
Show Stopping Style- Not So Casual Friday Jacket (50)
Original price claimed is 3375, but I would only need to pay 710 normally
MMAO was 2457 so my real discount, on a collection that I could purchase individually for 710, was a whopping -246%!! :shock:
Show Stopping Style- Fashionable Unravel Shorts (50)
The Hypnotizer (500) but is on Sale at 400
Show Stopping Style- Ombre Bunny Bling (75)
Show Stopping Style- Shorty McFleurterson Hairstyle (100)
Show Stopping Style- Liar Liar Pants (50)
Original price claimed is 775, but I would only need to pay 675 normally
MMAO was 414 so my discount was only 39%, not the claimed 47%
A couple of offers later I get:
Show Stopping Style- The Left Has It Dress (75)
Show Stopping Style- Flirty Hair Bow Hairstyle (100)
Show Stopping Style- Futuristic Gleeves Jacket (50)
Show Stopping Style- Fashionable Unravel Shorts (50)
TOTAL 275
MMAO 174
DISCOUNT 37% ... actually that's not too bad, I like some of the clothes in the SSS set but this old set is not CYS enabled so there is absolutely no way I am going to buy individual items at only 37% off!
Then I had:
Show Stopping Style- Belts are Beautiful Dress (75)
The Hypnotizer (500) - but actually 400 in the Sale!
Show Stopping Style- Full Metal Dress (75)
Old Skool Lowrider (200)
Slick (75)
TOTAL 925 - but actually 825 with the Sale item
MMAO 491
DISCOUNT 47% - but, in reality, just 40%
Yep, more SSS/Seeing Stars stuff and, once again, no CYS so ... no sale! :evil:
My final example (I'm sure everyone already gets the picture! ) :
Show Stopping Style- Not So Casual Friday Jacket (50)
The Hypnotizer (500) - or 400 on the Sale! page
Show Stopping Style- Tie-cklace Jacket (50)
Show Stopping Style- El Matador Jacket (50)
Pushin’ Pedals (1250) - although my CYS is 585
TOTAL 1900 - which actually should be 1135
MMAO 1337
DISCOUNT 30% - no, it's really -18% what is it with wanting me to pay more?!?!
Today's offers are more of the same SSS/Seeing Stars items with either the Pushin' Pedals or Palace of Versailles sets, both of which I already have a CYS discount on, so there is no chance of me buying any of these bundles.
So, come on guys! How long has it been, the system is clearly broken so please either take it down or fix it!
No one wants to play with the "Magic Conch Shell" anymore!
About a couple times a week I might get offers at 40% off, but not for anything I want.
Only got offered AS world a couple times, but sorry, still can't afford it at only 19% off, so no good.
Never got offered LL, or AL Fresco Market, EVER
(I figured GG venue was too new to be included for any offers?..so never saw it, of course)
This is crap and EA is excited about this new feature? go figure. Yea I suppose if you want one good thing bundled with other crap at 10% off or if your lucky 19% off! then its a good tool.
The timer is linked to the end of the timer on your final offer. Once that expires the global timer starts the countdown from 24 hours.
Its better to just use daily deal and CYS to get stuff cheap or even for free or the 30% of sale page [sarcasm].
Well, today's selection was beyond boring, pointless, and frustrating! :evil:
Out of 19 items in total I saw:
No Frills Bike Rack TWICE
The Hypnotizer (which is on sale) TWICE TEN Show Stopping Style Items (not including The Hypnotizer) THREE 'Exclusive' tops - 100sp each ... really?! ONE build/buy item that I would have been interested in to build up a CYS discount.
As I said earlier if they enabled CYS on the Show Stopping stuff I might well have bought one of the bundles.
How come they couldn't fix it when they took the site down yesterday? Surely EA knows someone who understands how to sell stuff on the Internet!
Got offered a decent percentage off a couple offers, but not for what I am trying to go for right now...AND weren't a couple of the items from the JCPenny duplicates thing? :?
Now if the MMAO machine would apply those discounts to AS, or LL, or Al Fresco Marker, I'd be an extremely happy camper...
Got offered a decent percentage off a couple offers, but not for what I am trying to go for right now...AND weren't a couple of the items from the JCPenny duplicates thing? :?
Now if the MMAO machine would apply those discounts to AS, or LL, or Al Fresco Marker, I'd be an extremely happy camper...
Yes, those are both from the JCP set, I really wish they would fix those so they show as owned. I get offered stuff from that set almost daily.
Perhaps your discounts were better due to this:
Make Me an Offer Special! Limited Time Special Offers!
Visit the Make Me an Offer Machine from Thursday, January 16th to Sunday, January 19th and enjoy nearly double the discounts with at least 25% off EVERY offer! Don’t miss out!
I can't use MMAO until late tonight, but I hope this will bring better discounts.
Perhaps your discounts were better due to this:
Make Me an Offer Special! Limited Time Special Offers!
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know! :oops:
I use bookmarks for the site & hardly see the main page
NOW if only they would be so kind as to fix those darn missing Ads... :roll:
I have been checking the MMAO at least 3-4 times and I have yet to even be tempted to buy a single thing!
If they want my money with MMAO there is a really simple easy way they can get it... fix the store database so I'm not getting stuff I already own or sets that are cheaper through CYS and the biggest thing... USE ITEMS FROM MY WISHLIST!!! I have yet to see a single item show up that is actually on my wishlist! If I'm spending simpoints, it's going to be on that stuff first!
I still keep getting offers for stuff I have no interest in. You'd think by now they'd be able to use your wish list and past purchases to offer something based on your preferences. But all I keep getting are offers for clothes, hair and furniture not even close to what I like! And most are still at a pretty pitiful discount, usually 25 percent off.
Hmm, yeah, the discounts for me seem to be a little bit better than usual and so far today, touch wood, it's not been an endless stream of Show Stopping items - make that set CYS enabled and I might buy some of it!!
But ... I still see sets for which I already have a CYS discount which means that the MMAO offer would actually cost me more! :evil:
Look, the MMAO feature obviously knows (mostly!) what we have already bought so why can't it use our CYS price as the original price on the sets offered? The Sale! and DD pages can do it so why not MMAO?
I still keep getting offers for stuff I have no interest in. You'd think by now they'd be able to use your wish list and past purchases to offer something based on your preferences. But all I keep getting are offers for clothes, hair and furniture not even close to what I like! And most are still at a pretty pitiful discount, usually 25 percent off.
I admit there isn't much I don't own, but I keep getting two elder hairs and nothing from the latest set...
Oh, and one time today I got Lucky Palms for 50 percent off, which would be great if I didn't already own it.
Got offered almost the same items I was offered yesterday! If I didn't want them yesterday, why on Earth would I want them today!? Ugh. Just like someone else said in a different thread about MMAO- I feel like Charlie Brown in the Great Pumpkin episode: I got a rock.
Hmm, yeah, the discounts for me seem to be a little bit better than usual and so far today, touch wood, it's not been an endless stream of Show Stopping items - make that set CYS enabled and I might buy some of it!!
I have been getting MOSTLY offers for those horrid (SS) pieces
(I ONLY wanted a few of them!)
And the cursed Genie pants! Sorry Store but, YUK!
..must be "Evil Genie" pants!
LMAO - but I agree, those Genie pants are evil and have cursed our MMAO. And don't get me started on SS, I have slowly, but surely, been collecting tons of items from that set, even though I don't really like it much. :roll: For the life of me I can't figure out why it isn't CYS.
I have been checking the MMAO at least 3-4 times and I have yet to even be tempted to buy a single thing!
If they want my money with MMAO there is a really simple easy way they can get it... fix the store database so I'm not getting stuff I already own or sets that are cheaper through CYS and the biggest thing... USE ITEMS FROM MY WISHLIST!!! I have yet to see a single item show up that is actually on my wishlist! If I'm spending simpoints, it's going to be on that stuff first!
I still keep getting offers for stuff I have no interest in. You'd think by now they'd be able to use your wish list and past purchases to offer something based on your preferences. But all I keep getting are offers for clothes, hair and furniture not even close to what I like! And most are still at a pretty pitiful discount, usually 25 percent off.
Same problem here.
It's as if they find the exact opposite of what you like and expect you to cave in for a 23% discount.
BTW, where do they come up with the discount percentages? It's usually some arbitrary number for me like 19% or 33%.
I imagine the last items you'll ever see with MMAO is stuff from your Wishlist. Those are the items that you're most likely to pay full price for (in theory).
Offers based on past purchases would be the logical way to go. Of course, what seems logical doesn't always play out as such [cough, cough, Amazon recommendations anyone].
My guess is they think you'll buy something you have no interest in if the price is discounted. To be fair, it probably works on a lot of people.
My guess is they think you'll buy something you have no interest in if the price is discounted. To be fair, it probably works on a lot of people.
It isn't working for anyone posting on this thread though, is it?
MMAO has an obsessional desire to make me buy stuff from Futureshock which I emphatically do not want. That and stuff I already own. It's getting almost pathetic. I swear I can see the puppy dog eyes "please, go on, buy that hideous shower, you know you want to really . . ."
I do not want those men's genie pants or the straw boater's hats. They show up 2-3 times a day out of 5. Instead of making me buy stuff I will not use, it's only making me want to stop wasting my time checking it.
I do not want those men's genie pants or the straw boater's hats. They show up 2-3 times a day out of 5. Instead of making me buy stuff I will not use, it's only making me want to stop wasting my time checking it.
Great marketing strategy.
Of course I agree with you, since you already know I am in the same boat! Evil Genie Pants!
I didn't dislike those Genie Pants or Straw Boater hats before MMOA, but after turning them down over and over and over again I have grow to hate them, no worse than hate, I loathe them! These days I see the Genie pants and just hit the 'No Thank You' button without bothering to pay attention to the other things being offered. I wouldn't buy them at 99% off let alone 25-40%. Really if you turn something down more than once the machine should wait a few weeks before offering it again, but instead it gets offered again right away, often the very same day. :roll:
My guess is they think you'll buy something you have no interest in if the price is discounted. To be fair, it probably works on a lot of people.
It isn't working for anyone posting on this thread though, is it?
MMAO has an obsessional desire to make me buy stuff from Futureshock which I emphatically do not want. That and stuff I already own. It's getting almost pathetic. I swear I can see the puppy dog eyes "please, go on, buy that hideous shower, you know you want to really . . ."
I typed "a lot of people" not everyone; it doesn't work on me either.
MMAO constantly assaults me with Gothic items/sets (which I emphatically do not want - too campy).
Also ya/a female clothing/hair (won't buy any of it, more than enough included in the EPs for me).
It's definitely not a well designed/coded feature...seems almost appropriate for Sims 3.
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So far I have not had the owned content problems that have been reported apart from occasionally, and it is only very occasionally, seeing Hidden Springs and Luck Palms Gold. There is no excuse for offering HS as it is clearly shown in my registered content and although I bought LP and the Casino separately any store database worth it's salt would be able to work out I had the full package.
My main problem is the repetition of offers and the fact that it CYS. According to Crinrict's S3SBrowser I own about 73% of the Store but, even so, there's plenty of stuff I could be offered but it just keeps throwing up the same sets and items! :-(
Some examples from the last few days:
Hidden Springs (2000) - owned so true cost is 0sp
Pushin’ Pedals (1250) - but my CYS price is only 585sp
Glitz and Glam Top (75)
Show Stopping Style- Not So Casual Friday Jacket (50)
Original price claimed is 3375, but I would only need to pay 710 normally
MMAO was 2457 so my real discount, on a collection that I could purchase individually for 710, was a whopping -246%!! :shock:
Show Stopping Style- Fashionable Unravel Shorts (50)
The Hypnotizer (500) but is on Sale at 400
Show Stopping Style- Ombre Bunny Bling (75)
Show Stopping Style- Shorty McFleurterson Hairstyle (100)
Show Stopping Style- Liar Liar Pants (50)
Original price claimed is 775, but I would only need to pay 675 normally
MMAO was 414 so my discount was only 39%, not the claimed 47%
A couple of offers later I get:
Show Stopping Style- The Left Has It Dress (75)
Show Stopping Style- Flirty Hair Bow Hairstyle (100)
Show Stopping Style- Futuristic Gleeves Jacket (50)
Show Stopping Style- Fashionable Unravel Shorts (50)
TOTAL 275
MMAO 174
DISCOUNT 37% ... actually that's not too bad, I like some of the clothes in the SSS set but this old set is not CYS enabled so there is absolutely no way I am going to buy individual items at only 37% off!
Then I had:
Show Stopping Style- Belts are Beautiful Dress (75)
The Hypnotizer (500) - but actually 400 in the Sale!
Show Stopping Style- Full Metal Dress (75)
Old Skool Lowrider (200)
Slick (75)
TOTAL 925 - but actually 825 with the Sale item
MMAO 491
DISCOUNT 47% - but, in reality, just 40%
Yep, more SSS/Seeing Stars stuff and, once again, no CYS so ... no sale! :evil:
My final example (I'm sure everyone already gets the picture!
Show Stopping Style- Not So Casual Friday Jacket (50)
The Hypnotizer (500) - or 400 on the Sale! page
Show Stopping Style- Tie-cklace Jacket (50)
Show Stopping Style- El Matador Jacket (50)
Pushin’ Pedals (1250) - although my CYS is 585
TOTAL 1900 - which actually should be 1135
MMAO 1337
DISCOUNT 30% - no, it's really -18% what is it with wanting me to pay more?!?!
Today's offers are more of the same SSS/Seeing Stars items with either the Pushin' Pedals or Palace of Versailles sets, both of which I already have a CYS discount on, so there is no chance of me buying any of these bundles.
So, come on guys! How long has it been, the system is clearly broken so please either take it down or fix it!
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About a couple times a week I might get offers at 40% off, but not for anything I want.
Only got offered AS world a couple times, but sorry, still can't afford it at only 19% off, so no good.
Never got offered LL, or AL Fresco Market, EVER
(I figured GG venue was too new to be included for any offers?..so never saw it, of course)
It's like a broken toy at best... :roll:
The timer is linked to the end of the timer on your final offer. Once that expires the global timer starts the countdown from 24 hours.
Its better to just use daily deal and CYS to get stuff cheap or even for free or the 30% of sale page [sarcasm].
Out of 19 items in total I saw:
No Frills Bike Rack TWICE
The Hypnotizer (which is on sale) TWICE
TEN Show Stopping Style Items (not including The Hypnotizer)
THREE 'Exclusive' tops - 100sp each ... really?!
ONE build/buy item that I would have been interested in to build up a CYS discount.
As I said earlier if they enabled CYS on the Show Stopping stuff I might well have bought one of the bundles.
How come they couldn't fix it when they took the site down yesterday? Surely EA knows someone who understands how to sell stuff on the Internet!
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Now if the MMAO machine would apply those discounts to AS, or LL, or Al Fresco Marker, I'd be an extremely happy camper...
Yes, those are both from the JCP set, I really wish they would fix those so they show as owned. I get offered stuff from that set almost daily.
Perhaps your discounts were better due to this:
Make Me an Offer Special! Limited Time Special Offers!
Visit the Make Me an Offer Machine from Thursday, January 16th to Sunday, January 19th and enjoy nearly double the discounts with at least 25% off EVERY offer! Don’t miss out!
I can't use MMAO until late tonight, but I hope this will bring better discounts.
I use bookmarks for the site & hardly see the main page
NOW if only they would be so kind as to fix those darn missing Ads... :roll:
I agree. I hate how they disappear every time they do site maintenance. :?
If they want my money with MMAO there is a really simple easy way they can get it... fix the store database so I'm not getting stuff I already own or sets that are cheaper through CYS and the biggest thing... USE ITEMS FROM MY WISHLIST!!! I have yet to see a single item show up that is actually on my wishlist! If I'm spending simpoints, it's going to be on that stuff first!
But ... I still see sets for which I already have a CYS discount which means that the MMAO offer would actually cost me more! :evil:
Look, the MMAO feature obviously knows (mostly!) what we have already bought so why can't it use our CYS price as the original price on the sets offered? The Sale! and DD pages can do it so why not MMAO?
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Agreed! This has been my experience so far.
Oh, and one time today I got Lucky Palms for 50 percent off, which would be great if I didn't already own it.
(I ONLY wanted a few of them!)
And the cursed Genie pants! Sorry Store but, YUK!
..must be "Evil Genie" pants!
LMAO - but I agree, those Genie pants are evil and have cursed our MMAO. And don't get me started on SS, I have slowly, but surely, been collecting tons of items from that set, even though I don't really like it much. :roll: For the life of me I can't figure out why it isn't CYS.
Same problem here.
It's as if they find the exact opposite of what you like and expect you to cave in for a 23% discount.
BTW, where do they come up with the discount percentages? It's usually some arbitrary number for me like 19% or 33%.
I imagine the last items you'll ever see with MMAO is stuff from your Wishlist. Those are the items that you're most likely to pay full price for (in theory).
Offers based on past purchases would be the logical way to go. Of course, what seems logical doesn't always play out as such [cough, cough, Amazon recommendations anyone].
My guess is they think you'll buy something you have no interest in if the price is discounted. To be fair, it probably works on a lot of people.
It isn't working for anyone posting on this thread though, is it?
MMAO has an obsessional desire to make me buy stuff from Futureshock which I emphatically do not want. That and stuff I already own. It's getting almost pathetic. I swear I can see the puppy dog eyes "please, go on, buy that hideous shower, you know you want to really . . ."
Great marketing strategy.
Of course I agree with you, since you already know I am in the same boat! Evil Genie Pants!
I didn't dislike those Genie Pants or Straw Boater hats before MMOA, but after turning them down over and over and over again I have grow to hate them, no worse than hate, I loathe them! These days I see the Genie pants and just hit the 'No Thank You' button without bothering to pay attention to the other things being offered. I wouldn't buy them at 99% off let alone 25-40%. Really if you turn something down more than once the machine should wait a few weeks before offering it again, but instead it gets offered again right away, often the very same day. :roll:
I typed "a lot of people" not everyone; it doesn't work on me either.
MMAO constantly assaults me with Gothic items/sets (which I emphatically do not want - too campy).
Also ya/a female clothing/hair (won't buy any of it, more than enough included in the EPs for me).
It's definitely not a well designed/coded feature...seems almost appropriate for Sims 3.