3DFineries posted at 8:09AM Mon, 11 April 2016 - #4264933

Something to think about. You create a product & sell it here. Your product sells for $10, right off the bat you give away $5 of that $10. Now if the vendor puts it on sale for 50% off, they are only getting $2.50 after all is said & done. Then, at the end of the year, you have to pay taxes on your sales, which takes more of your hard earned money. Do you really think it's worth it for vendors to spend weeks on creating something & just giving it to you for dead cheap all the time?

There are so many factors that impact that though, is the product just a rehash of a product for another figure, is the product something special, if so you can up the price. If it is just another product in a vast array of similar products for the same figure your asking price will have to be low. Is the vendor doing research into the market, where it is and where it is going, if the product is aimed at an early version on Poser or DS a lot of the users of the new versions will not buy. If it is a character does it include materials for the new render engines in both programs, if not then the users of those render engines will may well not buy.

I general I accept that vendors get a very poor return on their efforts which is why I am prepared to spend much more on a product that is produced with the later versions of Poser or is a little different. These days I use Dawn as a go to figure, I still use V4 but I really don't need any new V4 content. I am more than happy to spend a little more on a good Dawn product such as the Dawn Master Skin Resource by 3Dream, which I think in stunning well worth the $29.95 in quality alone and I also accept it will have limited appeal. I know products for Dawn will not sell in the same numbers as Genesis 3 but I am not convinced there is not money to be made as there is less competition. I know, someone is going to answer this by saying we tried to support Dawn when the figure was launched but the sales were poor but Dawn has moved on since launch and such comments go back to my point of staying up with the market.

The skin resource I mentioned is still in the Market Place at the same price I paid in August of last year so it still must be selling in sufficient numbers to warrant it's inclusion. Vendors should get a better return on their efforts but for some vendors at least they are going to have to put in the efforts and step outside their comfort zone for this to happen.

I am not arguing with the original point but just suggesting the coin has two sides.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.