My files gets cheaper

Hello every body

Today i see that at least two of my SFX files get half-price !!!

Imagine how this…

You working hard creating and uploading sounds and then TA-DA !!! more you upload less you get

Can somebody explain please ?

And by the way – where can i see AJ pricing policy ?

Thanks

Looks like all sound price been revisited or just my ? Any way… some file half-priced some 30% off I’m really rooted, don’t even expect that from AJ…

disappointing. period.

Slavador,

all AJ pricing is done by the reviewers who verify your songs and effects. It’s true most effects have been reduced, but songs have been increased in value and this is done so AJ can stay competitive. $3 for an effect or sound effect is the average compared to what the other licensing sites are also selling it for.

If AJ sold the effects for more, you’d get a lot less sales.

At least this is my thought

MaestroRage is correct — after the repricing we realized that we were selling effects and music for the same prices. This means the sound effects were being sold for far more than they are worth, and could have possibly lead to a reduction in sales if left unfixed. Now all effects are priced at amounts that are fair to the author and the buyer and sure to encourage purchases, and the value of music over effects has been maintained.

First of all i think its be nice if AJ Team make some announcement about important for contributors changes, isn’t it ?

Now looking down this page – 3,086 Music 1,295 Sound we see music dominating over SFX twice as large !!! Why upload SFX for 0.25$ rise, better sell music and get 2.5 $ !!!??? as consequence contibutors get out of mind Sound FX and switch to Music (...i will ) then buyer came to site for good one zoom, bang, clang, woosh sound and see only music and only couple of SFX they lookin for, and go to other audio stock with large SFX base… result – we lost SFX money at all !

So where can i see AJ pricing policy ???

They did actually http://blog.audiojungle.net/site-news/changes-at-audiojungle-new-categories-new-pricing/

it’s fairly old news, but there it is.

Also with all due respect Slavador, imagine yourself as the buyer here. You have $20 to buy a song and a couple sound effects. You see

Water drop: $5 this 1 minute track loop: $6

are you really going to use $5 for the water drop? I mean there are so so many free sfx that include common effects like waterdrop/zoom/rush sounds it’s hard to stay competitive. As for the fact you’d get only 0.25cents, I hear you there, I don’t quite agree with Envato’s payout system myself.

The way I see it AJ’s having 1/3rd the amount of sfx as it does music can only mean your sfx is found easier, and therefore chances of being bought are higher.

As for pricing policy, i’m only somewhat familiar with the song policy, forgive me Joel if i’m mistaken here.

1< minute: $5 1:30ish $6 1:30-1:59 $8 2: 00+ $10

at least these are things I noticed while uploading audio myself. I have no idea if it holds any merit.

what’s up maestro??? see you’ve been giving this site a shot! cool logo btw. anyway…

I think it really works itself out in the end either way…with cheaper files – more people will buy them. With more expensive files less people will buy them but you make more money. Imagine if every file on here was $3! How many people would be purchasing licenses…probably a heck of a lot.

I’m no marketing or business major but I noticed the moment all the prices jumped to $10 I made about half as many sales…so heck. Made sense to me.

Slavador, the ratio of music to sound effect files doesn’t make it harder for people to find. If they’re after sound effects, they go to the sound effects section and search within it.

As Josh mentions, it all works out — it’s really hard to sell an effect at prices as high as music files, and the cheaper effect files are much easier to sell. They’ll make you more money this way than before, despite being cheaper.

There is no public pricing guideline. We have some loose guidelines amongst the reviewers, but because there is some subjectivity in how music is judged no matter how well you plan pricing guidelines, we have to vary prices based on quality. The other major factor is length. If you want a higher priced file, submit something of high quality that is longer and more complicated — if it is longer but not of sufficient quality for that length or too much of the content is looped, it will not necessarily be priced any higher.

Of course, if we had public pricing guidelines, we wouldn’t be able to judge each file on its merits; we’d have to stick to stringent rules that will not always be relevant. This does a disservice both to authors and buyers. Our reviewers are very talented people, though, and every file is priced in a fair way that is competitive with other files of a similar nature based on its quality.

joelfalconer, it’s hard to find SFX wich wasn’t uploaded

Thank for explanation.