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Their "Permanent 3-for-1: Buy any one of our WP themes, and get two more FREE!" and "Can't choose a single theme? Join our theme club and get them all for only

Their "Permanent 3-for-1: Buy any one of our WP themes, and get two more FREE!" and "Can't choose a single theme? Join our theme club and get them all for only $125" deals make this seem like such an undesirable business model. It's like the constant sales at low-rent retail stores.

patio11 16y ago
undesirable business model In which sense of undesirable? Their club pricing model convinces a non-trivial amount of people to pay monthly for GPLed bits, which is so astoundingly desirable that I would be inclined to file it away mentally next to unicorns and bug-free software if they weren't actually showing evidence of succeeding with it. Disclaimer: customer.
- adamhowell 16y ago
  "In which sense of undesirable?" In the sense that it's not much of a longterm business. There are thousands of other people offering both a similar service and even WooThemes's own services resold for less. Also, just because they're "GPLed bits" doesn't mean they don't cost money to produce. They have both fulltime employees and high-profile designer contractors working to sell designs that are then immediately repackaged by others.
  - bad_user 16y ago
    In case you've never dealt with real people before ... WP designs are hard to modify in case you want little modifications here and there, and you have to be a developer to do it. WooThemes can assist you with customizations, and knowing they can do it matters. And people in general always have ideas ... especially when they don't know shit about publishing (like when some people, everything they do or write on that website has to have a visible place ... ever tried to explain to such a person that the site's readability will suffer? good luck with that). Also, when you're setting up a website, it's great the first time ... and many people want more. I have a friend that's a psychologist, and she has something like 5 blogs (I shit you not ... it's like she's setting up a new blog every 3 months). She also bought something like 30 shitty stock designs that she never used (thinking that she will someday). Having a central place where you know you can find good stuff when you need it is valuable ... instead of searching for it all over the web (you can find gemstones for free, but you have to go through shit to find it).

patio11 16y ago

undesirable business model In which sense of undesirable? Their club pricing model convinces a non-trivial amount of people to pay monthly for GPLed bits, which is so astoundingly desirable that I would be inclined to file it away mentally next to unicorns and bug-free software if they weren't actually showing evidence of succeeding with it. Disclaimer: customer.

adamhowell 16y ago
"In which sense of undesirable?" In the sense that it's not much of a longterm business. There are thousands of other people offering both a similar service and even WooThemes's own services resold for less. Also, just because they're "GPLed bits" doesn't mean they don't cost money to produce. They have both fulltime employees and high-profile designer contractors working to sell designs that are then immediately repackaged by others.
- bad_user 16y ago
  In case you've never dealt with real people before ... WP designs are hard to modify in case you want little modifications here and there, and you have to be a developer to do it. WooThemes can assist you with customizations, and knowing they can do it matters. And people in general always have ideas ... especially when they don't know shit about publishing (like when some people, everything they do or write on that website has to have a visible place ... ever tried to explain to such a person that the site's readability will suffer? good luck with that). Also, when you're setting up a website, it's great the first time ... and many people want more. I have a friend that's a psychologist, and she has something like 5 blogs (I shit you not ... it's like she's setting up a new blog every 3 months). She also bought something like 30 shitty stock designs that she never used (thinking that she will someday). Having a central place where you know you can find good stuff when you need it is valuable ... instead of searching for it all over the web (you can find gemstones for free, but you have to go through shit to find it).