Zboness

Join Date 11/2006

Pricing

I don't normally follow or post here so this will most likely be an "orphan post".

I just want to point out that, inho, windowblind skinners are pricing themselves out of the market!! I just bought a smart watch and I'm looking at buying new watch faces: at .99cents, I don't mind buying 10-15 of them. There is NO WAY in he__ that I, or anybody I know, will pay $10 or even $5 for a skin!!! Yes, I understand that they take a lot of work, but do you want to sell 10 skins at $10ea or 10,000 skins at .99cents each? People making android and apple apps are getting rich and they are NOT using your pricing model; get a grip!! Please!!!

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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And your 'smart watch' is affordable because of third world labour exploitation for corporate greed.

ALL artwork can be seemingly highly priced...and in reality there is MORE work in a Windowblinds skin than Picasso did in any painting of his. Pure man hours.

In the commercial world products are priced to suit THEIR market, not arbitrary alternatives...

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LightStar

Join Date 12/2002

+1597

Speaking as a person who sells his work on this site, I would tell you what I think of your post, but I am not a person that uses foul language! Do you know how much work goes into designing a Master Skin? Until you do, please keep you mouth shut.

The average price for a Master skin is around $4.95 to $5.95, there are some at $3.95 and up to $9.95 too that contain extras. There is a LOT of difference between buying something that is mass produced by robots on a conveyor belt for the most part, and designing a Master Skin spending many hours and hours on it.

This has been brought up many times on this site, and what you don't realize is that about 35% of the sales price goes to Stardock, so we don't make that much. There is also a minimum price set on the site that we must be at or above.

I think I speak for all Master Skinners. Man I feel like SCREAMING!

I hate dealing with people like you, GET LOST!

Please apologize for posting this crap too!

Better yet, can a moderator please delete this thread!

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Nimbin

Join Date 01/2006

+118

The solution is quite simple. If you don't wanna pay that price for a theme/skin... the don't, your choice but don't piss and moan about it. Some of the higher priced themes contain skins for multiple programs and while i wish i could just buy the WB theme sometimes that's not how the skinner sells their work, That's called freedom of choice and wars have been fought about it (pick up a history book sometime). But to come here and act like a petulant kid crying over the cost of particulars themes is baffling. Yes you can buy "watch faces" for your smart watch for 99 cents but i guarantee you the "work" that goes into the "face" is 10 times less than what goes into a complete theme. So to echo Lightstar...... Go away

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bluedxca93

Join Date 07/2014

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Hi,

well nearly all commercial skins here are worth its price. And the problem is not related to stardock at all.

I get 5 dollars for full 3 years of development of a theme on another sites, and for another i spent 5 minutes and got 45 USD.

Why? Cause people pay the amount they want to pay or don`t buy. You Zboness can decide on your own if you do buy or don`t buy it.

Well, people like me (neither masters and laso not n00bs) need at least two weeks with much freetime to get a free skin working.

Now imagine how much of a lifetime spends a wincustomize master on its skins.

Its indeed harder than painting abstract paintings with oil ( tried myself) . But Jafo Picasso was a great genius and artist too please don`t forget that.

regards bluedxca93

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