you could start your own site.  

Many of the artists and coders here sell their content at their own sites.  I've seen people over the years give away one version and sell a more advanced version elsewhere. 

I have to say though that in addition to having its own intrinsic value, another advantage of doing the time and becoming a Master is the traffic this site has in generating sales for the Master skinners.  It's worth the effort in lots of ways.

Any Master can sell their Dreams (or any other skin) here.  Stardock Designs is the only one doing it so far.

These are all good points, but take the earth dream for instance. I bought the earth dream because it looked great. but it has a bug, it does not turn off when a laptop goes onto battery. All the other dreams, including blissfulldream, the new dynamic one, turn off when the computer goes to battery, but earth does not. this is a clear bugt in the dream. Now i am stuck with the purchase, even though i cant really use it because i cant risk forgetting to turn it off and losing my battery to fast. Had i been able to try it i could have seen it did not work the way it should, and not bought it.

Your reasoning that i can judge your pay for dreams by the others does not hold water in this example because your others work fine. It is just the one i bought that has this issue. To be perfectly honist, i think i should beable to get a refund because it does not opperate the way dreams are being advertised, as something that respects power settings.

Contact [email protected] to report the bug.  If they cannot help you contact [email protected] to see how they can help you with a refund.  I hope it won't be necessary.

The next version of DeskScapes will have more power options for laptops. It's not a bug in Desktop Earth.

if it is not a bug in desktop earth, why is desktop earth the only one that does it? blissfull dream turns off when the power is cut. it too is dynamic, so it cant be just the dynamic ones. Why is desktop earth the only one effected.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but technically Blissful Dream isn't "dynamic" in the way that some people may be thinking. Blissful dream is only a regular old dream with time triggers built into it. Sure, this may be called dynamic (and indeed it is), but there is a big difference from this and dreams such as Desktop Earth and Desktop Collage.

Desktop Earth, for example, is completely rendered from your video card on the fly when you select it. All it is is a 3D rendered object that sits on your desktop, and since no video,looping or encoding of any kind is involved, we see a MUCH lower CPU usage. Due to this fact there is also absolutely no issues as far as your monitor's resolution, since the video card will be able to render it to whatever it is you desire (granted the video card has the horse power).

Blissful Dream is in no way the same. Blissful dream IS indeed a video file that was made to loop and was encoded with very specific details and at a specific resolution. Just about the ONLY thing that makes Blissful Dream even remotely "dynamic" is the fact that it has time trigger capabilities, but please understand the differences between the dynamic of desktop earth and the dynamic of blissful dream - it is quite large!

As I noted at the beginning of this post, PLEASE correct me on ANYTHING that I stated incorrectly above. I am saying all of this based on very little fact, and mostly my own speculation gathered from experience and knowledge. All I want to do is help clear this one up, since I've seen several people confused on the matter.

you may be right, and if that is the case, great. either way, if there is a difference, that is fine, and that would explain the issue. I am not complaining, i just want to understand it.

Glad I could be of help then, however small it may have been

well any ways to get back on subject. I like the idea of a 10 day money back guarentee. If putting in some try before you buy option is not feesable, then how about a money back guarentee. is that possible? since things like desktop earth have to be activated already, maby you could make it activate twice, once the first time, than once 10 days later, and if they have returned it, boom, it does not activate correctly. That would be a nice way to let us see the thing.

What is your refund policy?

Solution

Please see our refund policy found at https://www.stardock.com/stardock/sds_returns.html
Prior to issuing a full refund, we require that you utilize our technical support dept to determine if your problems can be rectified. Email [email protected] with an explanation of the problems you are having. Include any error messages you've received. If these problems can not be worked out by reasonable means, technical support will instruct you of how to receive a full refund.
If you do not wish to work with support on these problems, we only offer a partial (75%) refund.

Logistically double activating something sounds like a nightmare. There really is no easy solution to this other than.. if 5-10 bucks is going to stress you out.. don't take the plunge.

LUUUUUDRRRRRRICIOUS!
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SD, what about something akin to Xbox Live Marketplace, the world's current best TBYB microtransaction service? The download is exactly the same, but for example, you get watermarks and 2 days of grace periods before being denied access if you don't activate through Stardock Central (Or Deskscapes itself in that matter).

Logistically it would be easy, and a coulple of "buy me now" ads would make the proposal sweeter (I'm still saving up for daily fixes of premium coffee, so not yet. )

Taking out the multiples still has me lost.....Ludricious? ....

D= That word used to exist. With magic mushrooms too!