All of this for me is really strange. My items usually have a price of 1$. Does it matter that people are dropping prices? As i see, good themes are not dropping prices and crap themes are selling like my sfx. So i think crap should have a crappy price. Why? Because it will faster recive 1 star rating and no one ever will buy it even for 1$.
Well, you should check the popular list and you will see that a bit less there 50% of items there are on sale and those sales began to pop up for no special reasons for some time now. In most cases, those are set to maintain the popular list since once the price goes up sales go down again.
However there are some themes that manage to earn much more with 50% then they would use to, but support request pile up I think also.
For example, we experiment with some sales on cyber Monday and with one item now. But in our case, it just does not pay off.
This week overall is 50% drop in sales which in comparison with last year it’s significantly higher.
ADP I presume has a major part in that since we did not offer any intense discounts.
Before all this things there was no good and no bad only one quality was exist and that was the best quality. But now I can see a difference and now we are like a contestant in a competition. This is not we suppose to be and the main reason is that we are not getting proper sale so we tried to make more and more so the quality comes down. So I think it’s harmful for our business and our community members. Because if once the price comes down then we never can charge proper. We have to compete with others so we have to reduce our price.
Those who started on themeforest from 2015 and after, they are screwed up. Very difficult for these authors to even compete now. Pointless.