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Honestly, I haven't been able to make a single penny on this site yet nobody seems to want to buy from my shop because I can't afford to spend hours carefully breeding custom pokemon by hand for 20PC and therefore have to raise my prices a little. Honestly the economic vibe I get around here is somewhat reminiscent of a sweatshop. People working hours upon hours for pennies.
If you have 0 sales at 20 a piece and you raise the minimum price but still have 0 sales you still have 0$.
Some people think raising the minimum transaction limit will help them get sales, this isn't a miracle rule, I don't see the correlation between your sales and the minimum transaction rule. Of course if you had sales at the minimum price you'd be making more but then again you can also sell for more to begin with. You're also being hypocritical by running a new shop selling at 20 PC, if you want to make more raise your prices and add to the change, By selling for the price you disagree with you're hurting yourself and your cause. It's like if I were advocating for higher prices then undercutting everyone else for sales.
But we've already tried making them realize 20PC sales are a bad idea. The problem is, their neighbor is ready to chuck out 20PC pokemon, and newbies are coming in with these prices too. They feel they need to bring prices down so they can compete, which makes the entire situation even worse.
And buyers are already used to providing a minimal 20PC for their pokemon. It's bad. A forced sale price would be much better than spreading information at this point, since it's already been too rooted into the people of this site.
The only reason we budged and implemented a rule for the economy at all like this was out of necessity and had more of these people speaking up been there they would see the relative lack of necessity for a raise. I know it's bad for some people but some of these users are new and still have to establish a reputation, we've all been there, there's no shortcut.
That being said some established sellers are also losing sales but raising the price across the board would skew things such as dex fillers and other cheap products, what would they sell for? I understand you're referring to custom pokemon only as you said which is just too specific to a certain group to be implemented. It would be across the board, why would it make sense to only benefit users selling custom pokemon?
There are a lot more sellers than buyers, everyone wants something and the reason the poll may not be the best representation is because sellers are often here for the long haul while a portion of the buyers come and go for one time purchases, I think it's hard to gauge the entire site in a small thread like this,
I might be alone on this one, but I think the minimum on Pokemon should be a lot higher. Somewhere in the 100 range. It's attainable, but you need to stay for a bit to make up that kind of money. Unfortunatley, it can go either way. It might drive people away from the site, or it encourages people to stay to save up the PC, giving them a chance to see what a nice place this site is. It's enough to still make money though. Thoughts?
What pokemon? All Pokemon? Battlereadies? Dex Fillers? There are a lot more specifics that go into things and it isn't as easy as saying go ahead raise the minimum price to 70 PC, there are details, exploits, things that have to be thought about and I don't think this is a complete proposal. If you feel this strongly about the idea then it could use some more work as mentioned above by @sebesmos .
I completely agreee with this. Way too many people buy for 20PC.
EDIT: Oh yeah, look at the price of this example post doulie made, and compare it to 20PC
http://perfectpokemon.com/threads/5iv-fletchling-adamant-gale-wings-450-pc.8/
Please throw this out the window, this post is irrelevant, I've been here for over a year and I have sold event legendaries for 1000+ PC when I first joined. That was a different time, things change, Of course the prices plummeted with the implementation of powersaves, genning, and bank around every corner. This isn't a valid reference post.
People don't realize just how long it takes someone to breed by hand, especially if you're having to juggle ability, egg moves, gender, (most of all)perfect IVs, ect all at the same time. I'm on about eight hours of work on trying to breed a 6IV female hidden ability egg move dratini. I havve a 5IV dratini and a 6IV ditto w/ dknot. and even then if/when I can hatch one I still need to Ev train, and level it up.
Raising prices won't revive breeding. Breeding is being done in by genning and cheating. Raising the prices won't make people choose long tedious waits as opposed to instant products. Also you don't breed anymore, you invested in a genning device iirc.
As you can see by the newest PC rule we have implemented, we are heading in the right direction, this rule was implemented due to being suggested several times and brought up to doulie by myself personally. I'm not going against you or arguing with you and i'm not choosing to take a stance on this issue currently, I'm just pointing out that there are always more complications than you'd think it isn't simple and a more detailed pitch would be appreciated.