randym77 opened this issue on Aug 03, 2014 · 237 posts
ssgbryan posted Tue, 05 August 2014 at 1:24 AM
Quote - In fairness, content takes up a lot of server space and bandwidth, and if it's not selling then it's just draining resources and that can get expensive. There's no reason to keep it around just because it might have a chance of selling one copy once every 6 months to a year or so. These marketplaces are businesses and they have to keep their costs down where ever they can find room to squeeze a few pennies out of the overhead.
All of these producst are on the servers - everyone of them still has a webpage, even if 'Rosity doesn't want to sell it anymore. Go to your purchase list and pull up something that isn't for sale any longer - the webpage still exists and the zip file is still available for download.
As long as 1 copy was sold, you have the same space and bandwidth costs as any other product - you are simply missing out on potential sales. Not a lot granted, but when "sqeezing a few pennies" every little bit will help. And as far as the vendors go - it would be "found money" They have sunk those costs a long time ago.
When I contact these active vendors at 'Rosity to pick up a number of things that I missed the first go around, I'll be buying content that is sitting on 'Rosity servers at this very moment costing "server space and bandwith". And 'Rosity won't see a dime of it. And it is a lot of content - it's actually larger than my current wishlist - and that is saying something.
Again, I think 'Rosity need to relook their clearance policy - it may have made since when it was first formulated, but the community has changed, even if 'Rosity hasn't.
Why not make these things part of Prime? At least you could get back some of those "server and bandwidth" costs that 'Rosity is currently eating.