kathym opened this issue on Dec 14, 2005 ยท 58 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 14 December 2005 at 1:02 PM
I don't mind paying higher prices for excellent models. But a higher price will always cause me to think twice before I'll hit the "purchase" button. It'll need to be something that I really want........
Higher-priced items often end up spending long periods of time sittin' on my wishlist. In fact, oftentimes such models never make the jump over into my cart.
For example: why should I dump $30 on a lone character package -- when there are literally 100's of superb character packages available for under $10? I can get three great characters for the price of one other.......
For this reason, the $30 character package has to be something really special before I'll consider it. If EVERY character package cost $30, then it would be a different story. But under current market conditions, I don't have to pay more -- so I'm not going to.
Look at Zygote, $14,000 USD for their male and female each, un-rigged.
Take a trip over to www.turbosquid.com and check out the prices there, just be thankful that you fell into such a cheap aspect of 3d.
If Poser items started selling at Max prices, then I'd bail out of this hobby. Even if you can afford it -- this pastime isn't worth that kind of money to a Poser idler like me.
In fact, Turbosquid-type pricing would probably kill about 90% of the Poser market.
It's always more to a merchant's advantage to sell 300 units at $15.00 apiece than it is to sell 5 units at $75.00 each. No matter how valuable the merchant thinks that their products are.
As for installers -- I don't like auto-installers. They annoy me. I'd rather customize my own library locations for purchased items, thank you. Not have them all pre-assigned into confusing "merchant vanity" directories -- with directory names that don't provide a clue as to what types of items are actually contained in the directory.
Does a directory labelled !!!!!!!WonderWhoop contain a V3 character, an automobile, or a non-posable model of a giraffe?
I'd rather assign the directory names for myself.....in a way that makes sense to ME. Not in a way that flatters the merchant(s).
Message edited on: 12/14/2005 13:06