Oops, I thought this thread was is the merchants forum too. LOL Sure ... here it is, just as I've posted it in the Merchants forum, It has as subject "Digital WAR?" ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi all: I want to relate a true history that happened years ago, when I was a child - many many years ago. LOL. In the little town where I was born, we had 3 theatres, one covered for winter and two more without ceiling just for summer time (3/4 of the year in my country). Well, in winter there was no problem, only one owner got all the money from the customers, but in summer every one of the cinema owners, thought about the way to get the maximum number of people into his theatre. At the beginning, one of them planned to put on better and newer movies than the other, and indeed, his idea was very good. Almost all the people began to go to his cinema. Then the other put on 2 movies for the same price as one and in that moment the fight began. Every morning, in the main street of the town, both owners put a big poster with the advertising for the movies for that night and a chalkboard with the schedule and prices. Well, the following is just the truth of the facts that happened. The prices of the ticket for both cinemas was 100 for example. The owner of the first cinema put a price of 90, then the other owner changes his chalkboard price to 80, then the other to 60, then to 40 and .... well to cut a long story short, the end result was that one of them wrote in his chalkboard the incredible price of 0.00. The main bar of the town was just at the other side of the street and you can imagine the laughs and comments of all the people there. It was saturday and the bar was full of people. People said: And now what? This is the end, the other owner can't do a better offer. 2 MOVIES FOR FREE!!! . Well, they were mistaken. In about 15 mins the other theatre owner appear and laughing like hell, delete his old price (I think it was 10) and taking his chalk he wrote: Today 2 movies for free and the company will give a soft drink to every person that comes to watch our program. :) And this is the end of the story. A TRUE STORY!! And now, why have I related this? Well, the Poser community is going in the same direction as the cinema owners. First there was Daz with the Platinum market, then RDNA with lots of articles for just $2.50, now Poser Pros with the new Pro Club to just $2.49. PhilC with his $1.95.... What the next? Buy 1 and get 10? Or maybe if you get one of my articles for free I'll give you $5 for your trust? I think we are burning the Poser market. From here I request all merchants to stop this price war, Otherwise, very soon the Poser market will disappear. I propose that none of us put prices below $5 in any one store and of course, that price would be for a simple prop, small texture or just a few poses. For the rest of the models, we must request the appropriate price. IMHO I think that the only ones harmed here are us, the artists, the creators of the products, that after passing a lot of time working on a project, we have to sell it for almost nothing. If we deduct broker percent, taxes and in my case the loss from the rate of exchange, what do we get? How many articles do we have to sell to get proper compensation for our hard work? There is nothing more to say, I will remain keeping my prices at an appropriate level and I hope that all of you do the same. If things dont change in the near future, I will have to say goodbye to this fantastic community to continue selling my creations in another more productive markets. That's all. Any suggestions or comments will be welcome!! --------------------------------------------------------- You are welcome Mehndi!! :)