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Originally Posted by jgaiser
The only people that manufacturers care about are the people that pay the most money?
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Another way of putting it is: not everyone is a member of a company's target market. Gucci could care less what _I_ think about the price of their purses, as I would NEVER pay anything close to what they charge. They aren't going to change their prices based on emails I send them and ratings I put on their products online.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
You're angry because of complaints about the strange pricing (ebooks more expensive that their paperback equivalents) that the publishers are attempting at the present?
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Angry? No. Amazed at folks who can't grasp that "cost to produce" has very little relation to "price" no matter how many times they are informed. Sure.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
That somebody thinks your $50 prints are overpriced?
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Nope. It's just MY "shoe on the other foot" scenario. I am far from the most expensive photographer, but I'm not the cheapest either. No matter how little I charged (when I was starting out) -- there was always someone who thought it was too much. You learn that you don't need to worry about folks who think you charge too much. They aren't your customers. They don't value what you do. You market yourself to folks who DO value the service you provide.
Folks here seem to think the publishers are doing them some kind of wrong. As if the publishers have some obligation to provide their products at prices those who don't value their products very much would set for them.
Lee