Hey guys. I've tested it and it's doing well, so I've made the Name Your Price option available to all UMD store producers.
If you enable it for any new or existing download, customers will be able to decide what to pay for it, whether that's $50, $3, or even free. Just edit the download and the new option is there under the Price field.
You can already give vids away for free on the Videos page, or charge for them on the Download stores, but this in-between option is probably for producers who were always kinda on the fence about how commercial they want to be with it all. Now you can let your fans decide.
Also, I think the option would be useful for established producers who want to use it in a strategy to bring renewed attention to some older areas of their catalogs (we'll have a special "Name Your Price" section very soon).
For producers who do use this feature: Let's decide to not to get all upset if a lot of users inevitably do download a lot for free. I don't think that will happen, based on the numbers so far, plus the fact that there is still a $5 minimum purchase and a limit to how many freebies they can buy at a time. But whatever happens, I'm the one swallowing the bandwidth charges, so you don't have to worry about that, plus you can remove the status at any time.
Now who's gonna be the first to offer up some Name Your Price stuff!!?
Will you be offering a breakdown of how this works out for producers? (aggregated so as not to reveal who's selling how many at what price) I'd be interested to see after a few weeks if this works out better for producers than a fixed price, as it's in everyone's interests to keep the producers able to afford to make more videos!
wtfdownloads said: Will you be offering a breakdown of how this works out for producers? (aggregated so as not to reveal who's selling how many at what price) I'd be interested to see after a few weeks if this works out better for producers than a fixed price, as it's in everyone's interests to keep the producers able to afford to make more videos!
Would be very interested to see this as well. Having discussed the concept at a splunch we tried something similar with our 75% and even 95% off sales with reasonable results. I'd be curious as to how many just want the videos for free though. It could well be a way to help producers being able to carry on making videos.
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