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09-08-2005, 01:05 PM
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they can take e percent from the money you earn on their site selling templates. Just like rentacoder.com . If you don't make money they don't take you money.
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09-08-2005, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Ioana
instead of that fee i would put a person to sort the templates. This way a good design gets into the site even if the author can't afford to pay $5, and an ugly one will be out of the game even if the author is bill gates ![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Who'd this person be? Moderator? Imagine the number of posts like "This #@$%@# Mod said my template sucks! And my friend said I am the best! WTH is wrong with this stupid Mod?! I'm off to other forums!"
Originally Posted by Ioana
they can take e percent from the money you earn on their site selling templates. Just like rentacoder.com . If you don't make money they don't take you money.
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But there is also the exposure You get, unlike on RAC - this is also worth "some" money.
[ot]Funny, how a change on one forum has the impact and reply on another one... It show the meaning of that to the freelancers community.[/ot]
[edit]No "offtopic tag ![Frown](images/smilies/frown.gif) [/edit]
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09-08-2005, 01:08 PM
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They can sell them on semi-pro ones and when they get professional level and know what to charge for professional work - they'll easilly afford the $10 fee, and it will be much less then 10% of the price they'll sell their work for.
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Just because people are selling their work for less than $50 doesn't mean they're not professional.
I could make a template and sell it for $25, does that mean I don't value my work?
I've seen work posted on forums priced at $500-800, work that isn't even worth the listing fee.
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09-08-2005, 01:10 PM
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they can take e percent from the money you earn on their site selling templates. Just like rentacoder.com . If you don't make money they don't take you money.
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Great idea Ioana, but as i've said...they're obviously just interested in making more money for themselves....this could have been done a number of ways and each of those would have been a better solution than a listing fee.
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09-08-2005, 01:11 PM
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if I was the Moderator i wouldn't care that a bad designer gets angry at me and decides to live my forum. I don't want ugly templates anyways....and MY CLIENTS don't want bad templates too. And if the client is unsatisfied he won't buy, and if he won'y buy then i don't get any money. So here the clients are important...not the designers.
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09-08-2005, 01:12 PM
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Yes, I mean....I simply can't understand the real reason for this listing fee other than making money...it's not as if someone will buy a template if it's crap?
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09-08-2005, 01:12 PM
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As I wrote - this isn't a rule. I can give my house for nothing or sell my car for $1 - and it doesn't mean that they're worth that low. It takes some time to learn how to value one's work and may be sometimes painful - in both cases (overpricing and underpricing).
If You make professional template for $25 - make 10 of them, list for $10 and set the price at $26. They'll sell in a few days for sure.
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09-08-2005, 01:14 PM
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I think it's a load of ******** myself, it's another way for Sitepoint to profit from the sale or non-sale of others work. Don't think of it as a commission, it's just a frickin rip-off.
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09-08-2005, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Ioana
if I was the Moderator i wouldn't care that a bad designer gets angry at me and decides to live my forum. I don't want ugly templates anyways....and MY CLIENTS don't want bad templates too. And if the client is unsatisfied he won't buy, and if he won'y buy then i don't get any money. So here the clients are important...not the designers.
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But if it was YOU who'd hear that "Your templates are not professional and ugly, and we care about clients, not designers here?" ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
Moderator can have different taste of the template being "professional".
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09-08-2005, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Robson
Yes, I mean....I simply can't understand the real reason for this listing fee other than making money...it's not as if someone will buy a template if it's crap?
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well if you have to choose one nice template from that site and there are 50 ugly designs for every 1 beautiful design then there is a problem. The client gets bored searching through all that crap. He will search another site to buy templates from because this is becoming an 'ugly templates' site
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