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Something I'm missing here: Amazon will either pay the developer 70% of the actual purchase price (which is set by Amazon) or 20% of the listed price (set by t
by statictype 16y ago
Something I'm missing here:
Amazon will either pay the developer 70% of the actual purchase price (which is set by Amazon) or 20% of the listed price (set by the developer), whichever is higher.
So what's to stop a developer from listing the game at $100 and letting Amazon figure out for itself, what a more sensible price should be (and then collecting $20 which would be higher than 0.7*whatever_price_amazon_finally_sets)?
Will Amazon reject apps on the basis of the listed price?
- danshapiro 16y agoI believe that is allowed, but: - You can't sell it anywhere else. Amazon requires that you give them the best pricing on the app, ever. Per the article, if you even list it for a day on sale for $0.99, you have to price it in Amazon for that amount forever. - Pricing is at amazon's discretion. So they'll price it at $28.57, you'll get $20 when your mom buys it, and nobody else will. - The big win is if you get offered for free, since then a ton of people download you and you still get 20% of your purchase price. That will never happen to you, since the "who gets featured" algorithm appears to be people-making-decisions based. Side note: this model is excruciatingly bad for apps that have per-user costs to the developer. If, for example, you plan for the average $0.99 user to use $0.25 of server storage and CPU, and amazon decides to give your app away, you may wind up in the hole.
- jonmc12 16y agoAmazon requires "developers to guarantee Amazon a minimum list price that matches the lowest price on any other market". So you would have to price your app out of others markets to employ this strategy on the Amazon market.
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