Are there any more buy-premium-item-get-set-free-on-DD deals?
I once purchased the little chicken coop at the Sims 3 Store with some SimPoints, then recently found out that the whole Country Living set was put on sale for a Daily Deal (via the Game Launcher). I ...
The concept here is that most store sets are eligible for Complete Your Set, where you get credit for the total value of the items you own within a given set. To set the CYS price, the value of the items you own is subtracted from the current price of the set, and the result is multiplied by .9. (The multiplier becomes .8 if you own more than half the set.) But if you own items worth more than the cost of their set, the whole set is free; this applies even to Daily Deal prices. With the chicken coop, it costs more than the DD price of the Country Living set, so when the set was on the DD, you could buy it for free.
When a premium item is not on sale, either through the DD or in general, it's cheaper to buy the whole set, or buy other non-premium items on sale and then get the set, rather than paying full price for the premium content. As an example, I'm not sure whether Grandpa's Grove is eligible for CYS, but it's on sale for 475 points, making it a lot cheaper to buy the set itself rather than getting the tractor (733 points) and waiting for the set to be free on the DD.
There are a few other cases where you can buy a premium item on sale and then get its set for free:
The major one involves the basketball hoop. Buy it on sale for 130 points, then get the Level Up collection for free on the Daily Deal, then get the Man Cave Compilation for free as well.
https://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:55995 (130 points on DD 31) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:56005 (free on DD 65) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:55996 (free on DDs 336, 339, 386, 714)
The basketball hoop shows up on the DD a couple other times before then, for more points, but since you'll be waiting for the Level Up collection anyway, you don't gain anything by buying it early.
The cowplant makes the Killer Classics set free:
https://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:45648 (182 points on DD 334) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:45244 (free on DD 892)
The... whatever the "Not So Routine Machine" is makes one of its sets free as well:
https://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:48373 (125 points on DD 460) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:48376 (free on DDs 424, 551, 576, 689)
The other sets the machine belongs to are not eligible for Complete Your Set though. The store has a few other non-CYS sets as well, so double-check before you buy anything.
Buying the baby swing for its normal sale price makes a larger toddler collection free, but if you like kids' items, there's a slightly more expensive way to get a much larger pile of content that includes these items.
https://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:43457 (on sale for 265 points) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:43479 (free on DD 819)
The teppanyaki grill makes the Japanese Dining set free:
https://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:57590 (150 points on DD 546) https://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:57680 (free on DD 489)
However, if you're looking to get the entire Best of 2012 collection or have already made progress towards it, there may be a cheaper approach than getting this set. If you're interested in the collection, just list the items (if any) you already own, and someone can help you figure out the cheapest way to get the rest of the set.
Barnacle Bay is a separate case, neatly summarized here:
