I rarely complain about the price of an RPG product but . . .

[Incenjucar]

Well Phillip, I hope I don't disprove your theory but you have at least 1 sale as a result of selling your "101 Collections" for $1. I had thought about getting it on a number of occasions in the past but discounting it to $1 made me finally decide to buy it. Depending on what I think of the 101 Collection I may go back and purchase some more Ronin Arts products.

Olaf the Stout

P.S. I must say that I felt like a real cheapskate buying the product because it was reduced to $1. I did think though that it was Phillip's choice to price it at $1, nobody elses. I hope that thought will help me sleep tonight.

Reminds me of how Pepsi and Coke do it: The official prices are, like, 4.50 or so. The sale prices go down to 2.50 (and the two alternate for some reason...). Just low enough to get you to try one and get hooked... muhah.

 

[philreed]

P.S. I must say that I felt like a real cheapskate buying the product because it was reduced to $1. I did think though that it was Phillip's choice to price it at $1, nobody elses. I hope that thought will help me sleep tonight.

Don't worry about it. The price was my choice to make -- I wasn't pressured into it. I do hope you enjoy the PDF, though.

At first glance I may have been wrong in my estimate. 5 people have already used that special coupon. This should prove interesting.

 

[Voadam]

And, as a demonstration of why lowering costs drastically has no real impact on revenue, I'll step up to the plate.

Using the following link will let you buy my "101 Collection" for $1. That's over 100 pages of material. This expires in a few days.

http://www.rpgnow.com/?coupon=55726

I predict that fewer than 5 copies of this product will be purchased using this coupon. Granted, this is a very limited experiment since only people that see this thread will know of it. I'll be sure to post the number of people that used this coupon so that everyone has the data.

If there were some proof that such a drastically low price would greatly increase sales I would price all of my PDFs extremely low. To show numbers, this product has been brought me $1,773 after 324 sales. That means that I'd need to sell over 6x the number at $1 to make the low price worthwhile. I just don't think that many people would buy it even at $1.

I think I already bought this when it was on sale before, but now I'll double check. I love these offers and take advantage of ones on things I like (I think I got 17 pdfs when ENpub did their $1 sale).

Yep, I got it when it was on sale for $3.95, dam.

 

[PJ-Mason]

Don't worry about it. The price was my choice to make -- I wasn't pressured into it. I do hope you enjoy the PDF, though.

At first glance I may have been wrong in my estimate. 5 people have already used that special coupon. This should prove interesting.

Well i took advantage of this generous offering. Its not something i would normally buy, but for a $1 i can't go wrong. You'll get a boost to your sales i'm sure. Don't know if it would be worth in the long run. But it might persuade you to alter your schedule for reducing prices on older products, or convince you do do that if you don't already. I think there are a lot of sales to be made via this route, the trick to find the perfect balance between full price/new products and old products/deminished returns.

It didn't hurt that the $1 pushed my Wish List over the edge of Rpgnow's minimum purchase!

 

[diaglo]

for me... there hasn't been a d02 book printed that is worth the trees it killed to make.

but my hat of d02 knows no limits.

 

[Turjan]

Nice! There aren't many of those out there. I hope you've managed to get some good use out of it.

Yes, thank you, Sir ! I got some completely new aspects for my game out of this book .

for me... there hasn't been a d02 book printed that is worth the trees it killed to make.

but my hat of d02 knows no limits.

Thank you for this rather unexpected contribution !

 

[Breakdaddy]

Do you know what my insurance plan is now? I call it "don't get sick." .

I know its not meant to be, but that was so funny I spit out my coffee. The reason, I think, is because Ive been there. I had my own little business going for a while and I feel every bit of your pain. I'll give you a big pat on the back though, Chris, as you guys are one of the most consistently high-quality outfits in this industry. Kudos!

 

[JoeGKushner]

Looks at numerous posts talking about the same thing as they've talked about for years.

"Well my uninformed opinion is blah blah blah..."

"Well my experience in the industry is blah blah blah..."

I give this thread a solid "Meh."

Phil's post was on a specific book and others have hopped on to broadcast their opinions about the cost of other books prompting others to jump in with their opinions about how underpriced the books are.

Gentlemen, in my opinion, "blah blah blah..."

Back to the pointless bitch session.

 

[philreed]

Looks like I was wrong. 10 copies of that PDF have now sold. Of course, 10 is in no way enough to make me think I should reduce my prices but it is more than I had expected.

 

[Turjan]

Phil's post was on a specific book and others have hopped on to broadcast their opinions about the cost of other books prompting others to jump in with their opinions about how underpriced the books are.

Gentlemen, in my opinion, "blah blah blah..."

Back to the pointless bitch session.

Ah, now I know: Phil is performing his little experiment, because it's so pointless. Thank you for this valuable contribution. Maybe you should meet with diaglo for a nice cup of tea .

Looks like I was wrong. 10 copies of that PDF have now sold. Of course, 10 is in no way enough to make me think I should reduce my prices but it is more than I had expected.

Well, we don't want this test to find a premature end then .