oh , come on!!!you mean that prices at this moment are not down enough? aren’t you aware that there are almost no guys living out of running the marketplace exclusively, already?! i mean apart from elite authors. Well , indeed, that’s what happens and most of us work very hard and hardly get pocket money out of it, so this idea that u come up with is absolutely not legitimate indeed will have only one result: killing creativity and authors … .
Let’s face it , to take just an example, a flyer here this is basically 6$ , that’s hardly the price of a coffee in some cities of the world and that’s definitely not a big deal for anyone who organizes a special evening somewhere , a club owner in most cases would have a return in investment as long as he sells one entry, or one drink or something like this … so what is the goal of this thread and idea that u come u with, that we all end up starving and that we all have to change work in the end because we cannot make money enough to survive?!
U seem to have forgotten something, the marketplace style, like the one that u have in envato , this is based on numbers and volume, which basically implies that authors need to sell very very much of a low-priced items to get to live decently or to make decent pocket money. Actually, the flyer thing, this is just to deal with an example that i know very well , but, let’s face it , as for what u said about website, plug ins or whatever , i guess that u must be aware of the price u would have to pay to have a website created in an agency aren’t u? because if so , even if u buy a template and that u turn out to add some “rather expensive plugins” (and a lot of them indeed), then u’ll be very very very far away from the kind of price that u would turn to have to buy in any single agency of this world …
as for self pricing, i have always personally militated against this … . U know what we will end up with , with having low quality , quickly made items selling much much more than the good quality ones that we all take much time to create, simply because some guys will have great conditions to offer very low prices if compared with all others and will take the option of massively producing rather than offering quality, so that they get all the sales and nothing will be left to the others unless they do the same . Is that what anybody is expecting for indeed? I dare hope this is not …
as for what u judge as simple, i can tell u that, out of almost 13 years of experience in an agency that if u are listening to customers, all what u do is simple, takes no time, all u need to do is to snap the fingers (or u just have to click according to their own words) and we get the job done, which is far away from being a reality to say the least , not to mention that this is also disregarding out time, experiences, skills / competencies and so on
what i can tell you is that if envato have to do something with prices, this is putting them slightly up, in order to help more guys to survive … and so that creativity and skills are saved and safe in the end