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Prices

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:34 am
by grouchy
I'm going to stick my neck out here (what's new) and say that IMO, our site is cheapened by writers selling full rights for $1. It oughta be illegal. :x

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:38 am
by JD
I've just seen those sales and had the same thought. Maybe the author wants to bump up their stats to get on the author's list or something... Wasn't the customer willing to pay a lot more for those articles, too?

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:44 am
by grouchy
Yep.

This person could bump up his/her stats if the price was $10!

Guilty party, are you listening? Or are you new to CC? We have an image to maintain, even for silly little things like recipes. (haughty sniff)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:47 am
by Celeste Stewart
I don't get it either.

I'd love to see a minimum. $7- $10 for usage seems to be a successful baseline usage price for customers and writers alike - still cheap enough for bargain hunters and yet still enough that if you could write 4-5 of them an hour, you'd net $20-$32 an hour for your efforts plus resell them over and over.

$1 just doesn't make sense to me mathmatically.

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:52 am
by grouchy
On second thought, 65 cents is nothing to sneeze at. Oh, wait....


AAAAAAAAATTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



(Guess I was wrong.)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:56 am
by Celeste Stewart
Looks like she's an experienced writer here with regular pricing in general. Maybe she meant to type in $10? Or maybe they only took her one minute to write -- though I'd still charge more regardless.

Besides, the upload process alone is takes enough time that it's not worth doing unless there's more money involved.

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:15 pm
by Elizabeth Ann West
That requester wasn't willing to pay more per article. I went down to $10 a recipe, and that was still "out of their budget." I suspect the requester thought they were pricing the whole project for 20-30, or $1 a recipe.

If they found a writer willing to do that, great. I'm just not that author. :)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:24 pm
by grouchy
I can see how that would happen - the request was not worded as clearly as it could've been But why would this writer submit several recipes separately, instead of as one collection of 30?

It just doesn't "look" good.

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:28 pm
by Celeste Stewart
Maybe she priced them higher originally and through negotiations came down to $1 figuring it's better than $0? Guess we won't know until she weighs in.

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:59 pm
by Elizabeth Ann West
My guess would be that with all the competition in the recipes, it was thought the requester would just buy the 30 he or she liked. That's what I thought, it's why I only posted one, and it happened to be my lunch yesterday! :)

The trouble to take them down, resubmit as a bundle, it's time she obviously was not getting paid for...

I can't really blame the author, it's not like a ton of recipes sell on a regular basis here.