I will explain my position a little more then.
When we have a subliminal that is released, and it has imperfections, I try to correct them and improve the product. In some cases, I will keep an older version of the product; for example, you can still buy a few titles in more than one generation. But in most cases, we deprecate the older versions because they are not as effective, and therefore do not reflect as well on what we are capable of doing.
5.5G and 5.75G subliminals are "in medeas res". They're unfinished technology groupings. They're more advanced, but less stable (as in, more prone to have different skeleton scripts for each release) than 5G or 4G or 3G subs because of this. I am learning a lot with each program release in the majority of cases. So if we have, for example, LTU5 and LTU6 for sale, people are going to look at them and say... "Well, why is LTU5 for sale at the same price as LTU6? Why are they different? They're both 5.75G." Every time I have to answer questions like this, it's time spent answering questions instead of making new programs. Since not everyone reads all of the forum, these questions typically get asked multiple times, too.
We have a policy that the latest generation never gets discounted. It can have a lower introductory price, but once the price is set, it never goes on sale and it never gets discounted. Having V5 and V6 in the same generation means one is significantly less capable than the other, but the price may be the same. It makes no sense. We have this policy because of certain pricing psychology principles.
Furthermore, this would result in confusion for our customers. We already have a huge library of titles, and a huge amount of information for people to read, and having multiple versions concurrently only makes any sense if they are in different generations. And then, we prefer to not keep the older generation because it is less likely to achieve the goal in most cases. Makes us look less capable than we are to be selling old technology.
Finally, whenever I build a new version of something, I try to make sure it is significantly better than the older versions, and corrects any and all known issues. Those issues relate to the refund rate for that product. We don't want customers asking for refunds, we want them asking for more subliminals. So leaving up something that will get more refund requests makes no sense.
When we have a subliminal that is released, and it has imperfections, I try to correct them and improve the product. In some cases, I will keep an older version of the product; for example, you can still buy a few titles in more than one generation. But in most cases, we deprecate the older versions because they are not as effective, and therefore do not reflect as well on what we are capable of doing.
5.5G and 5.75G subliminals are "in medeas res". They're unfinished technology groupings. They're more advanced, but less stable (as in, more prone to have different skeleton scripts for each release) than 5G or 4G or 3G subs because of this. I am learning a lot with each program release in the majority of cases. So if we have, for example, LTU5 and LTU6 for sale, people are going to look at them and say... "Well, why is LTU5 for sale at the same price as LTU6? Why are they different? They're both 5.75G." Every time I have to answer questions like this, it's time spent answering questions instead of making new programs. Since not everyone reads all of the forum, these questions typically get asked multiple times, too.
We have a policy that the latest generation never gets discounted. It can have a lower introductory price, but once the price is set, it never goes on sale and it never gets discounted. Having V5 and V6 in the same generation means one is significantly less capable than the other, but the price may be the same. It makes no sense. We have this policy because of certain pricing psychology principles.
Furthermore, this would result in confusion for our customers. We already have a huge library of titles, and a huge amount of information for people to read, and having multiple versions concurrently only makes any sense if they are in different generations. And then, we prefer to not keep the older generation because it is less likely to achieve the goal in most cases. Makes us look less capable than we are to be selling old technology.
Finally, whenever I build a new version of something, I try to make sure it is significantly better than the older versions, and corrects any and all known issues. Those issues relate to the refund rate for that product. We don't want customers asking for refunds, we want them asking for more subliminals. So leaving up something that will get more refund requests makes no sense.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
