EClark1894 opened this issue on Jun 30, 2015 ยท 45 posts
AmbientShade posted Tue, 30 June 2015 at 8:33 PM
You've spent enough time making your own content by now to know that it's not a speedy process. Vendors aren't going to support a figure unless they see the potential of making serious returns on their investment. Trying to force vendors into creating content for figures that most people don't use, will just cause vendors to take the content they want to make to a different broker.
The only way this idea could work is if the broker hired a team of artists and paid them an hourly salary (which averages about $25 - $30/hr in this industry - and that's being conservative), or contracted various vendors to make specific items. That would get expensive for the broker very quickly, because this content is not cheap when it's being commissioned, and there is no guarantee that it will sell enough to make back the investment plus a return.
So yeah, bad idea. Sorry Clark. I can appreciate the spirit of the idea though.
A better approach would be to monitor the types of content that is being submitted, like someone above said. Put a cap on how many bra/panty sets are submitted. But even then the broker is limiting its own sales, so that's not a very good idea either. A higher quality bar would be nice to see, but that also means charging more. And I agree - vaulting or deleting items is not a good idea. Especially since the item stays in the database anyway for access by people who have bought it. It's pretty irritating to be honest as there have been things in the past I would have bought had they not dropped out of the store, I just couldn't get them at the time I added them to my wishlist. I don't even bother adding things to wishlists now. But I don't buy much of anything anymore anyway since I can make pretty much anything I want or need. Except scripts and utilities that make content creation easier. Rarely I'll buy something I need for a project that I don't have time or patience to make it myself.