Quote - This income data depends on what was sold and where. I know vendors who walk away with over $4000 a month easily off one product and back catalog sales. Some with even more. So there is money to be made. And thats part time..

 

I know there are some who do, but they're not the majority. It's unrealistic to think a starting vendor would even come close to that amount. You have to take the whole back catalog sales into account, they make up a major part of the $4000. I know vendors who make $10,000 each month when releasing a new product combined with back catalog sales, but it's not realistic for most of us to expect that, it took years to get to that level and they only release 4-6 products a year.

 

But the whole truth is that a lof of the vendors who claim to make $$$ aren't doing so at all. I'm selling at CP and here have been a vendor ar RDNA. Before I was a vendor and did my research, I've had vendors tell me how much they made...... a lot claimed to be able to live off their content selling at only one store.... claiming to make the $4000+ you state. I did a lot of effort to get insight into sales figures and once you're allowed to see this it's shocking..... the majority of vendors who claimed to make $$$ when doing my research, made in reality only 10%-20% of the amount they claimed. RDNA is much more open to vendors about sales figures and they do release sales reports to their vendors if aksed for them. I'm still shocked when I do think of these reports and that's not in a positive way.

 

The same question asked in this thread was posted a while back. Some vendor I know, started throwing around sales figures he made from a particular new product released at CP and that he could live of the sole income from the CP product sales. I happened to be the top seller that month at CP with a few of my products in the list, I'm quite often in their 30 days best selling list. Even though CP doesn't release sales figures, it's easy to work out from the list what people make. His product wasn't in the list at all. You can guess the outcome of this story, he didn't even get near the sales figure he was claiming.... he sold less then 5 items that month, priced at $10 or so, you can do the math.

 

I know vendors who tell me they make $4000, but...... If a vendor claims $4000 and he/she doesn't show me the monthly report, I'm not going to believe them at all anymore...... vendors just love to keep up the appearance, but the majority has to rely on other income as well, especially the last 2 years.

 

So, getting back your statement..... did you see the monthly reports of these vendors you know or did they just tell you? Unless you've seen the reports, there is no way to confirm their claim and let's not forget that most vendors who can make a living have been building their content catalog for many years to get to that point, but with the current economy, even they have a much harder time to generate sales, since everyone sales are down most of the time.

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