Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How do you determine the price of a model?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Jan 31, 2017 ยท 114 posts


mrsparky posted Wed, 01 February 2017 at 3:08 PM

Some stores have mimumium vendor pricing, usually a model based on filesize, what the product is and what amount of stuff is included. Sometimes that doesn't give the seller much wriggle room, which is why sellers have to spilt products into two or more packs, even if they wanted to bung it all in one.

Theres also the seller cut to consider, 50% for store and seller is a typical average. Do a joint project, or say charge 10% for texturing/rigging something, you could find your "cut" isn't dollars but cents. If that product gets included in a sale/clearenced etc, that can be as low as 5-7c per sale.

Obviously no one can exist on that, which is why many poser creators don't do this for the money. But for the fun of playing shopkeeper or getting some store credit.

Nothing wrong with that, though it does change the dynamic between user and creator. If something is free, generally theres gratuide, users will live with the odd buggete. But when thats paid for, theres expectations. While 99.99% of customers are great people, a quick trawl through the forums shows that some "experts" expect way too much and are not ashamed to take up your time or slate your work.

So you'd have to ask yourself is that the real price?

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.