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The only way to compell someone to overpay for something that is cheap to distrubute is to develop a personal relationship with them. Customers must understand
by anoncoward111 8y ago
The only way to compell someone to overpay for something that is cheap to distrubute is to develop a personal relationship with them.
Customers must understand that if they don't support creators, eventually the stuff they love will either go away or never come into existence.
It's a tough sell. 99% of people don't think like this. They want to buy things off the shelf for next to nothing and be done with it. And people have a hard time saying no to "gratis".
- aviaryan 8y agoYou are right. Selling, when done by an individual is considered evil, especially when the cost to the seller is so low (i.e. not sitting everyday in a physical shop, not coming door-to-door to one's house, not managing a factory with unsatisfied employees). I guess this is something that can only be fixed with time.
- anoncoward111 8y agoThanks for writing :) I see the tides turning. The internet is allowing a lot of people to draw an income from crazy niches. Patreon proves this. But, it's not stable, and walled gardens are always a problem.
- aviaryan 8y agoIt can be quite stable if you have multiple sources of income. And that is not that tough with the Internet. In fact, I think it will be more stable (~reliable) than having a single traditional source of income.