durf opened this issue on May 18, 2012 · 65 posts
moriador posted Fri, 18 May 2012 at 3:17 PM
Quote - No need to shake head.
Business sense says that if you price something in a certain price bracket both get the best of the result.
Make something too low, the PA does not benefit, the user does.
Make something too high, the PA and the user does not benefit.
If you make somethig for $100 and it only sell s 1 you get $50.
If you make something for $10 and it sells 10, you get $50.
Yes, you are selling at a smaller price, but in the end it is units sold that counts.
I've seen some really overpriced things recently and too be honest they haven't been worth the price.
I, as a buyer, look at certain things first before I buy, the big thing is price.
People can make things and charge over the odds, but if they don't sell then it means nothing.
All the best.
LROG
There's a point at which pricing things lower does not result in sufficiently more sales, and just helps to contribute to an undervaluing of products. Consider prices in stock photography, for example. 25 cents for a photo that required hiring a model is going to require a lot of sales just to break even. Yet on sites with thousands and thousands of photographers, it's extremely difficult to get those sales. A few, who have managed to live through lean sales in the early going and have finally built up a huge market as well as higher rankings (so more visibility on the website), may manage to make decent earnings overall. But almost everyone else is getting pocket change.
Such markets greatly reward early members and power sellers. But it's hard for others to compete when a huge volume is necessary just to cover costs.
ETA: I've noticed an increase in Poser content prices in some instances. But I think it's long overdue, and may very well, in the end, result in an overall improvement in quality. That's not to say I'm not a fan of Rendo Prime. :) Because I am definitely a fan of Prime.
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