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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 7651928" data-attributes="member: 12037"><p>Subconsciously, or sometimes consciously, people will associate higher prices with better quality. That's just the way things are. If you're shopping for air filters and you see one at $12 and one at $20, you can't help but think to yourself that the higher priced one must contain more quality products or that the cheaper one cut corners on production. Maybe you research it, but maybe not.</p><p></p><p>The same thing applies to other products when it really shouldn't. If somebody standing on the corner hands you a free book, then you wonder why they can't sell it. If you see a free download on drivetrurpg.com you wonder why they can't make money off of it. It rarely enters the head that maybe they don't care about making money off of it, that they did it for the love and hope you pay later, or that they're trying to build business for a larger suite of products.</p><p></p><p>I will say, though, that free is becoming more common, and more commonly accepted. Pay what you like is also kind of like free but without the stigma. It lets people know that, hey, they think their product is so good that they can offer it for free and expect people to still pay them! It's mostly experimental right now, and its hit or miss, but it should be interesting to see where that goes.</p><p></p><p>Then of course there are products people expect for free. Things like message boards, search engines, flash games, online news, and other things of that nature. In those cases, most people will not pay for them but they still expect business quality.</p><p></p><p>People are weird.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 7651928, member: 12037"] Subconsciously, or sometimes consciously, people will associate higher prices with better quality. That's just the way things are. If you're shopping for air filters and you see one at $12 and one at $20, you can't help but think to yourself that the higher priced one must contain more quality products or that the cheaper one cut corners on production. Maybe you research it, but maybe not. The same thing applies to other products when it really shouldn't. If somebody standing on the corner hands you a free book, then you wonder why they can't sell it. If you see a free download on drivetrurpg.com you wonder why they can't make money off of it. It rarely enters the head that maybe they don't care about making money off of it, that they did it for the love and hope you pay later, or that they're trying to build business for a larger suite of products. I will say, though, that free is becoming more common, and more commonly accepted. Pay what you like is also kind of like free but without the stigma. It lets people know that, hey, they think their product is so good that they can offer it for free and expect people to still pay them! It's mostly experimental right now, and its hit or miss, but it should be interesting to see where that goes. Then of course there are products people expect for free. Things like message boards, search engines, flash games, online news, and other things of that nature. In those cases, most people will not pay for them but they still expect business quality. People are weird. [/QUOTE]
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