Ironbear opened this issue on Oct 07, 2002 ยท 139 posts
Ironbear posted Mon, 07 October 2002 at 10:50 AM
Hrmm.. not sure about "one person", although it's possible. I've seen quite a few of them... I do tend to lean towards the "a small group of people". I hope so anyway. Gods help us if it's more than a small group, we're screwed. ;] Greybro, LSM, and a number of people hit a chord with me... I picked on Greybro's to quote because it happened to be under the cursor: "all claim to draw their sole income from Poser. Get real people." That's the thing that bugs me... I agree with whoever said this: you can see the people like Syyd, Colm, and a number of the Daz merchants who are doing this professionally as making a bit more. One would hope anyway - a site like RDNA is horribly expensive to run. They'd better be making a profit... Me... I'm going to go out on a limb here: I suspect that I and my partners do pretty nice work. It sells reasonably well, and we get compliments. But hey - On a good month, my sales, and other professional work within this community will pay my internet bill and buy a few items with instore credit. A bad month - it's a couple of cartons of ciggarettes... To be honest, I don't work hard enough at it to expect to make a lot of sales. Not nearly prolific enough. Where I make money with poser and other apps is when I sell a framed print to a client, or an illustration to a magazine or other buyer. That's decent bucks. One framed one off print can equal several months worth of marketplace income for me. shrug The fee from a single high end workstation out of my shop can equal a half a years worth of poser sales or more. The marketplace is supplemental income - it helps keep my two cats in the style they wish I'd let them become accustomed too. ;] It wouldn't occur to me to blast say, Schlabber for lack of sales. My mind doesn't work that way. If my sales are down, it's time to sell another print, or build a few more worstations or gaming rigs, or write an article for publication - not find someone to blame for it. Sorry schlabber, I don't think you can take the blame for wrecking the pose market. What it does do, speaking as someone who markets poses, is make a need to offer something a bit unique. But good stuff will sell, even if there's a lot out there. What you manage to do is push me to work a bit harder at it, and work harder at designing something someone will want to part with their beer money for. ;]
"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"