IO4 opened this issue on Aug 25, 2011 · 10 posts
IO4 posted Thu, 25 August 2011 at 12:57 AM
The new site design works really well in terms of advertising as I notice far more than in the old design the latest models for sale at Rendro. What this has also highlighted to me though is how cheap (price) alot of models are - I'm not complaining as a potenetial customer as it benefits me, but thinking from the creators point of view do they really make any money at all and is it worth doing such great, detailed work for very little? For example the antique typewriter that has been advertised recently looks fantastic. It certainly looks of a high standard and very detailed, so I'm assuming it took some time to create, and then some for the texture maps. But it only retails at $7.00...I was so surprised when I saw that - that means the vendor is only making about $3.50. Is the traffic and resulting sales volumes at Rendro that good that the vendor would actually see a decent return on their creation? I'm thinking they could charge more at some other sites I'm not knocking Rendro or suggesting they should..but it puzzles me.
Or maybe such a model really takes no time at all for someone experienced (teach me how you do it lol!) or is not as difficult as it looks, and therefore the price is a reasonable reflection of the time taken to create it,or skill level...?
Just some thoughts....am I missing something? Would love to hear thoughts from some other.