(02-02-2019, 08:57 AM)maxx55 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-02-2019, 08:23 AM)terry44 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-02-2019, 08:05 AM)racktree Wrote: [ -> ]It is obvious that some will find the price huge and others a bargain.
Ask someone living in a country that gets a $400 monthly wage, someone that gets $3k monthly wage and someone who pays a performance coach for $200 a session and you will get three different stories about how good or bad the LTU price is.
Even if you go further some people value self-development more and some others not. I paid $500 for AM, run it twice already and did a hundred changes in my appearance, lifestyle and character in general. If I was to do this with coaching I would definitely need a team of different people to coach me, a lot of energy and focus and would still not have the natural smooth changes I experienced. Now if someone would take all these back and make me pay again I would pay at least $5k to get them back.
It is also obvious as terry44 mentioned that an ideal price (which I am not sure how it can be properly determined) will make more profit to Shannon. Yet again Shannon might have other things in mind. For example keeping a specific price and delivering results-value to customers might attract the right audience that can pay.
Yeah, I suppose that would mean that subs have gone from something anyone with an open mind and a modest income could afford to try, to something only those with a much larger amount of spare cash can afford.
From Shannon’s earlier post, it sounds like he plans to offer 4G and 5G products at lower price points and keep 6G higher priced as a way to offer different sub levels for a wide variety of consumers. Somewhat similar to the way a new smartphone comes out each year and the last year’s gets cheaper.
It’s a smart approach imo but the big issue I see is the limit of 4G and 5G subs. From what I’ve seen, it could be that a 4G and a 6G version of the same sub exists and someone would be more than willing to pay the price for the 6G but they never tried subs so they try the 4G one out but they “resist” the entire sub and decide they just don’t work. Whereas if they had used the 6G one they’d get the results and stay a long time customer.
I think it’d be great though if at some point 4G and 5G received some kind of “anti resisting” upgrade so that doesn’t happen. Or maybe something where you take an online quiz that tells you the minimum sub generation you should use. Just something that crossed my mind.
We are eventually going to be phasing out 4G and 5G and possibly even 5.5G subs over time, to keep our product offerings and quality consistent across the entire product line. Partly because lower levels of tech will not represent the higher levels and people will assume that they do.
My programs are and almost always have been a top end level of option in the field, a luxury product. In order for me to use this to fund my real goals, I can't be selling them at the prices other charge. So I have worked for ~26 years now to develop the tech and the product into something worth paying these prices and more for. As a result, people can, will and do pay what I ask for them, even when they run hundreds and thousands of dollars.
If you look at any market where there are different price and quality levels, you're always going to see that there is a low end market, a mid level market and a high end market. The high end market is the luxury brands, and they are typically the best you can get and the most expensive of whatever they are. We are really the first and probably only luxury subliminal brand in the market.
The highest end products have the best quality, cost the most to make and are the most valuable. They have a corresponding price tag. There are other options available, and there will be even after we have removed everything but 6G or maybe 5.5 and 6G. You will be certain to see others trying to grab our market share by offering the closes thing they can come up with for a significantly lower price, and in fact that's already started happening within the last couple years at least. Those alternative offerings by different producers have various levels of value, but they are there.
If you want a Rolls Royce, you can either save up, make yourself able to afford one, or maybe get one used or rent one. Otherwise, you don't have it, because quite simply it has that level of value and requires that level of value to remain constant to support the production of such a car and the continued existence of the company making it.
If you want a genuine Clive Christian fragrance, or a genuine Creed or an genuine Amouage, it is much the same story.
If you want a genuine Coach purse, or a genuine Tory Burch or a genuine Kate Spade, same deal. You pay what they ask, or you get it used, or you save up or get a less expensive competitor.
I happen to think Creed's prices are insane, but that's not because they don't have very good fragrances; rather, it's because I have the means to eventually be able to make it myself, at least as good, and for a fraction of the price. The time and effort that go into me educating myself sufficiently to do so, and the aroma chemistry and components and labware required to do it are still a cost; and in the end, unless I want to make a huge batch, it will actually be cheaper for me in the long run to buy from Creed. One way or the other, if I want that level of quality (in those cases where I think the fragrance is high quality; I don't think well of all of what Creed has to offer), I will have to pay for it.
I can't make high end stuff and then charge low or mid range prices and stay in business, it takes too long to make each one. It also devalues the time, energy, skill and expertise required to make one, and it kills my ability to make enough money to achieve my real goals, funding of which will require literally hundreds of millions of dollars.
