shedofjoy opened this issue on Jun 22, 2005 ยท 274 posts
ratscloset posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 7:20 PM
but $15.99 for a complete custom morph that took me over a week (and im not new to morphing)? if you think so, then dont buy it - but i think its fair considering the work i did on her and in relation to other products in the marketplace. i make just over $9 on each sale. while i was morphing her i also remorphed countless polys of the mesh to 'flow' better with the lines of the body, as well as smooth many poky triangles. ive said it before and ill say it again - if someone is waiting for me to start pumping out $5 products then dont hold your breath, frankly i find the current state of marketplace pricing - like the daz .99 cent thing - its absolutely #%@$ing insulting to the content creator, and id rather go flip burgers at mcdonalds than make 50 cents on something ive busted my ass working on. Some rhetorical questions from a Marketing/Accounting Standpoint: How much would you sell one set for outright? If you are making $9/sale, how many would you need to sell to make that amount? If you sell 1000, that is $9000 you made. If you sell it outright for $9000 or less, you make all your money upfront which allows you more resources for future development. If you sell 10,000 you would only need to make $0.90 on each one to make the same money. I am not sure if my source is accurate or even would have knowledge of this, but I they said that some of the $1 Items sold during these recent sales at DAZ and PP sold well over 10,000 units in the couple of days. That is marketing. How many of us bought something for $0.99 or 90% off that we still have not installed? That is the power of that type of marketing. I understand your position, but that is what put many small retailers out of business, and others grew to meet their new sale demands. I have a friend that sells Printer Parts for as little as a dollar profit per part. This was a new approach for them to clear some older inventory. They can not keep up with the orders and are constantly looking for new suppliers to meet the demand. His number of sales increased by a factor of over 100 and his profits have doubled over what he expected. All this, just for reducing the price. Granted, this approach will not work for people supporting other products, but original Props and Figures would and could sell. (Or things for the base figures that are free.) So, unless you are supporting a niche figure, expect these types of sales to continue.
ratscloset
aka John