When we opened this site our declared pricing strategy was to follow iTunes. What we ncould not anticpate was that it would be so stable for so many years.
But the dollar a track bulwark is beginning to crack and we have decided to go with the flow.
So we have now implemented a new structure based on track duration.
5 minutes or more 0.99$(US)
4-5 minutes 0.69$(US)
3-4 minutes 0.49$(US)
<3 minutes 0.29$(US)
The PayPal processing fee has been retained for orders below 3$(US) and the 30% discounts still kick in on orders for 3 or more items.
So far there has been no response to these massive price cuts - perhaps price never was an issue and music buyers are not as rational as all that.
Oh and by the way we have bailed out of the Ring tone game but they might come back as freebies I suppose because they are quite nice. It was fun to do but never caught on commercially possibly because they only work on phones that can download the MP3 file from the PC.
But the dollar a track bulwark is beginning to crack and we have decided to go with the flow.
So we have now implemented a new structure based on track duration.
5 minutes or more 0.99$(US)
4-5 minutes 0.69$(US)
3-4 minutes 0.49$(US)
<3 minutes 0.29$(US)
The PayPal processing fee has been retained for orders below 3$(US) and the 30% discounts still kick in on orders for 3 or more items.
So far there has been no response to these massive price cuts - perhaps price never was an issue and music buyers are not as rational as all that.
Oh and by the way we have bailed out of the Ring tone game but they might come back as freebies I suppose because they are quite nice. It was fun to do but never caught on commercially possibly because they only work on phones that can download the MP3 file from the PC.