SAMS3D opened this issue on May 13, 2003 ยท 14 posts
andix posted Wed, 14 May 2003 at 7:03 AM
Hi Mak, As I'm sure you're aware, we're also in the UK.. Now, we use Paypal for payments from sites that we sell brokered products on, which at present is payment in US $ from all of them, including our own on-site store. However, after much chasing of NatWest, we're finally getting a Streamline account, and more importantly, a SecPay merchant account. This will then allow us to charge customers in Dollars, Pounds or Euros, the choice will be theirs. OK, we have kept our prices roughly the same since we started, although we've made some modifications, as we've learnt our way along. Generally, the price is the same, so what we've tried to do, is increase the worth of the product.....either in the detailing or the versatility. very few of our products are exclusive anywhere, so the base line commission applies to all. Further, we pretty much have a permenant sale on, of varying degrees discount. so for a $10 pack, such as WorldZ, the current R'osity price is $7.50, of which we get $3.75. Fair enough, little amounts....but....we're working on the Woolworths Principle....which is a low price, shifting lots of individual units. This works for us. But, yet again, the Marketplace is an evolving creature, and standards change....what was awesome 3 years ago, might look a bit faded by now, so you have to evolve with it....stagnating, and resting on former laurels just will not keep you there in this increasingly competative market. Ideally, you need to stay an occassional step ahead, or do something truly spectacular. We also have the added bonus of there being three of us involved at 3dmodelz, and all three of us just love doing 3d. So we've never any shortage of new stuff......in fact theres a reasonable sized update going to our on site free section this weekend. But to Sharen (Sams3d), i repeat, we don't think you should be feeling bad, thats just the nature of this beast.....nothing is constant, except change. best wishes Andi 3dmodelz