Prices

grouchy · Post by **grouchy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:34 am

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.

JD · Post by JD » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:38 am

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?

grouchy · Post by **grouchy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:44 am

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)

Celeste Stewart · Post by **Celeste Stewart** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:47 am

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.

grouchy · Post by **grouchy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:52 am

On second thought, 65 cents is nothing to sneeze at. Oh, wait....

AAAAAAAAATTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(Guess I was wrong.)

Celeste Stewart · Post by **Celeste Stewart** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:56 am

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.

Elizabeth Ann West · Post by **Elizabeth Ann West** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:15 pm

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.

grouchy · Post by **grouchy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:24 pm

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.

Celeste Stewart · Post by **Celeste Stewart** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:28 pm

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.

Elizabeth Ann West · Post by **Elizabeth Ann West** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:59 pm

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.