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Content Prices, WTF?
I got a mail asking me how many pics I have in my store and what is the price for all of them as whole.
I wrote that currently I have about 75'000 images in stock and the best price I can give is $3500 if he pays with bank wire. It's a x-mas time after all, I thought why to do not give him a good discount...
He wrote me back that usually they pay 0.01 per an image that's $750 and he was ready to send me a check.
WTF? I make more than $750 monthly from AVSs using only portion of that content. And this is when I do not spend more than 15% of my time promoting them.
Do the content providers really sell their content that cheap recently? Or he was just wise ass clown trying to rip me off?
I don't get it. If you cannot sell sites, why buying content at all? Why do not go find some job in McDonalds instead?
This reminds me of an old USSR anecdote. Russian tourist gets in France with the group, and before they leave he goes into local parfume store and looks if he can buy some present to his wife. He sees that he has not money even for smallest present. He asks salesperson - "Can you please cut that small piece of soap on two and sell me a half, I don't have money for a whole piece". Salesperson silently cuts that soap and gives him, but also gives him a pack of condomes. Tourist asks - "What's that?". Salesperson says "It's a present from our shop, we are interested in preventing of procreation of such customers as you".
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