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Kaandorpius
Da In Jan 2008
55 post(s)

Estonika 0524

Tutto su iStripper
August 10, 2016, 102 risposte
Hi Guys,

Some of you are wondering why Harley XX card is more expensive and I agree that you deserve some explanations.

Actually this card is absolutely one of a kind :

  • Une lignCosplay has not been cheap! We have created all special pieces of this outfit like the baseball bat and the t-shirt. And you can believe me when I tell you that was hell of a job! e
  • The makeup is quite particular and asked lot of time to our make up artist. And you know that time is money.
  • The card layout is unique and can trully be considered like a collector item
  • We have created lot of artworks with this card like wallpapers, special skin (available soon), etc.
  • And finally we know we have a high demand on this cosplay since the Harley Quinn madness is in full swing.


Cheers :)

I'll adress some pointers.

  • Une Ligne provides class A fashion products for companies. That is not cost effective at all, and i can't even tell what item you got from them to use in this shoot.
  • The make-up is NOT special by any means. Yes time is money, there is also a thing called planning so you wont spent more time or money then planned. This was planned wasn't it?
  • All cards are unique and different, how is this different from being different? With that said, all cards are collectors items, thats what we do here, collect cards.
  • Artworks... *facepalm*
  • You already did know Harley was in high demand, and you exploited it to the fullest, right in time with the release of the movie.

These are all poor excuses, now if you would have to a pay a license to use the DC character, now that would make sense. But i presume you have not, and you might get in trouble for selling the likeness of their copyrighted character. Unless that all has been cleared.

This is bad business on several points, and i hope this will not become common practice.
Kaandorpius
Da In Jan 2008
55 post(s)

Coseplay-Themed Cards

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August 10, 2016, 15 risposte
Hey @Kaandorpius
Harley card has been much more expensive to produce and I give some reasons here https://www.istripper.com/forum#/forum/thread/33675/1

By the way, all cards on iStripper have a price based only on maximum quality but if we would like to be fair, we would put a different price for each card, taking in account multiple factors like beauty of the girls, outfit, overall performance of the show, hotness (dildo, anal etc), celebrity of the girl etc.. as a result you would end up with a different price for each card, with some card under 25 credits and some over 25 credits.

Hence, you calculate your expenditures on a yearly basis, adjust your budget when necessary, raise/lower all prices making sure you cover your costs, not having to play around with individual pricetags. (avoids users from becoming more critical about spending credits)

So to be "fair"... the Harley XX card was more costly in production then a card featuring two girls performing sex including the use of toys?

This makes the girls sound cheap, the costume's expensive, and i'm sure the opposite is true. I could actually understand an increased price for Duo's or XXX cards, that would make sense, but VG/iStripper never did that.

You set out some pointers, and all are open to criticism, i mean Une Ligne Paris doesn't do cosplay, so unless you are a fashion mogul, why would you even...

Just say you want to cash in on the Hollywood hype, and its working. You invested in it, and its paying off like you expected. So if we are going to get more of this, i'd like to know.
gdavis
Da In Apr 2008
37 post(s)

Estonika 0524

Tutto su iStripper
August 10, 2016, 102 risposte
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Those sort of responses are Very Disaapointing to me


Your response is very disappointing to me as you seem to have completely missed the point. At least you took your moderator hat off so I realize it's just your opinion and not an official response :)

I guess I'm in a mood to try and clarify what I feel is the issue for anyone who is interested, so here it is:

When you take a product that has had a very specific and well established pricing structure then suddenly jack it up 60%, people are going to wonder why. Nobody is demanding "full disclosure", but some sort of acknowledgement in the marketing blurb to give CUSTOMERS a reason to pay more than they're accustomed to is nothing more than common business sense. It's basic marketing to give your CUSTOMERS a reason to spend their hard earned money. If totem feels they're truly "giving customers what they have been asking for", they should be shouting it from the roof tops: "Look! Here it is, what you've been asking for, an extra special cosplay..." Instead it came off as, I don't want to say "just another card", but there wasn't anything in the presentation that really made this standout as being so different to justify the price increase.

I don't know, maybe it's a US thing where we're accustomed to vendors trying much harder to convince customers to spend money, but I think this is the root of the reactions you're seeing, not that people expect an internal business justification or don't expect to pay more to get more. People want to know what they're paying for. If I was at a store talking with a sales person, I would ask, "why is this card more than this other one" and expect a description of what makes the more expensive one better and why I should pay more for it. Again, just basic marketing, you've gotta sell it.