Forum: Carrara


Subject: Holyforest shaders

holyforest opened this issue on Oct 15, 2010 · 7 posts


pauljs75 posted Fri, 15 October 2010 at 7:15 PM

This place seems to have a Wall-mart like policy for sale items. If there's not enough turnover they don't want to stock it.

For merchants that do niche items that don't sell often, you'll often see the short end of the stick. (Your numbers seem pretty good though - way better than I've hoped for, I'm surprised they're still not "good enough".) I've even had people ask where "such and such" went, because of the daft expiration based policy.

Good luck to you over at Daz though.

I won't specifically name names of competitors, but if you primarily do sales of things that aren't Daz/Poser specific and are more of an "every now and then" type sale, you're much better off doing business via a place that uses a combination of "volute shaped compressor" and "tentacled mollusk" in its name. They might take more of a cut, but you don't have to watch your back so much on the marketing end, all with constant worries of your stuff getting dropped from the inventory. In that aspect it's much easier to do business there.

If not that route, there's still the possibility of setting up your own site and doing business that way. But I still find using an established market a lot easier to deal with.

Renderosity is good for everything else though (hard to beat the forums, comradery, galleries, etc.), it's just that their market for sellers is a particular and narrow one and if you don't fit it becomes painfully obvious.


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