Zoot opened this issue on May 06, 2001 ยท 11 posts
JKeller posted Sun, 06 May 2001 at 1:27 PM
Keep in mind that Poser products in general are relatively very cheep...generally going for $5 to $80. Products for higher-end software like Max and Lightwave generally go for $60 to a few hundred dollars.
Now, Poser has a slightly different customer basis than LW and Max. There are many more potential customers, but a large number of them are hobbyists and not production houses...and therefor have smaller budgets for props, textures, characters, etc. I personally don't think there is any Poser product that is charging more than it is worth, but at the same time they may be charging more than I can spend that week.
I often wonder how independent merchants come up with the prices for their products. I would think it would be important for them to seperate the price from how much work they put into it. Sell it for too high and you'll have a minimum amount of customers. I would think as the price goes down your number of customers goes up exponentially. Low price = big profit. There is a point though at which your number of potential customers caps off. Lets say you have a product you sell for $5 and 1000 people buy it. Out of a 50/50 brokering cut, you make $2500. But lets say that 900 of those people would have bought it for $7... you could have made $3150.
All very interesting.