MaterialForge opened this issue on Aug 03, 2004 ยท 32 posts
Ethesis posted Sun, 08 August 2004 at 10:07 AM
Price points are interesting things, especially since there is a complete group of "casual" buyers (I'd say 95% of the market here consists of people like myself who render as a hobby, never need more than around 72 dpi, and who do a fair amount of impulse buying of misc. cheap stuff) out there that people want to tap into while still trying to reach the serious professional market. The mech that is available for H.E.R. from Sixus1.com is a good example. In Poser format it is around $15-$20. In the original format it is quite a bit pricer. Serious buyers buy both, but impulse purchases only occur with the cheaper version. I say that as I watch my own buying habits (yep, I'm one of those casual impulse buyers -- I never expect to sell anything I do and am rendering only to get the art my daughter wants for the stories we work on that we are doing just for the heck of it). I've bought a fair number of impulse buys ... and have more to come. Heck, I buy stuff I won't use to to support artists I like (I bought Fatale's robogoth gargoyle, for example, because I used a freebie of hers) and sometimes buy stuff for other artists just because. Anyway, that is an important price consideration when working in a market that combines serious professionals and enough hobbiests to cover up a lot of naked temple sword maidens. ... I also should confess that I'm the one that often suggests that people ought to be selling things they are giving away for free. If nothing else, to cover bandwidth. Well, off to buy Shub Niggerath, change up the verticle axis and twist her some.