Comments on: What I Said to a Guy Trying to Charge 30 Bucks a Month for Software

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:37:57 +0000

Hi Chelle glad to hear from you!

But right; to just pick a price out of the air without looking to see if what you have isn’t already out there super cheap or free is sloppy in a best case scenario, and rip-offy in a worst.

And yeah I can’t stand reading or participating in internet battles..

By: Chelle

Chelle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:23:21 +0000

You told him the right thing! You are so very right about the best things being free.I am a huge fan of open source platforms. I like your 2 drink philosophy on comments I wish everyone would follow suit on that one!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:54:06 +0000

And even in my email to the original guy I don’t advise TOTALLY free. If you have something with true value you can always have a price structure.

Hell, I sell pricey t-shirts on this site. But people expect a certain price for t-shirts. And every arena has certain parameters. And in the realm of software right now you’ve got to look around and say “ok, given what I have and given what people are paying, what’s a fair price to me and to the user.”

And I believe what GC is doing is fair. They’ll take a cut , but still leave the option for you to get those services “free.”

By: JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes

JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:32:25 +0000

@Olivier – look again, there are a couple dozen merchants that are completely free and DON’T take the 4th click on at all (you keep all the traffic) because the merchant pays for the funding on the feed in hopes more people will promote it.

The rest of the feeds are funded by the programmer of GoldenCAN himself, and that’s why he takes every 4th click. It may reduce your income, but you will have no income at all unless you have the programming skill to do what GoldenCAN does on your own. There are all kinds of feeds available for free – if you can figure out how to format them without using a service – there’s your “free” solution.

Free would be nice, yes – but you can’t always get it…