Vector Pricing Survey

Just a note as per the first part of your comment, notice I say I would purchase, as it’d save me time for the sakes of $3. I’m not saying I would do it myself in that case, but when it comes to paying $45, that’s when I’d reconsider.

And regardless of whether I have a Mod badge or not, I do understand what an Extended License is. I’ve purchased several of them.

I’m just giving my opinion as a buyer and what it’d take to get me buying extended licenses on vectors. Of course as a buyer, naturally I’d want things cheaper, but please don’t go accusing me of piracy, I do actually prefer to spend money and support the community

I see you have good experience of being a buyer

I believe cidepix has a point. Though I do not create vectors to have a good estimate of the amount of time needed. But generally there is an underpricing issue in almost every category. If you take rendering mockups for example which have many functionalities and even additional views are often priced as simple static renders. I believe it would be a good start if authors could propose a price for their item giving several reasons!!!

quickandeasy said
“The whole point of buying stock vectors (something that is more of a professional designer’s tool, unlike themes for example, which are a product built for non-designers/developers) is to save you time.”

quickandeasy said
I see you have good experience of being a buyer

Oh, I am way more experienced in buying than you think.. having a paw here doesn’t make you a better buyer than me.. remember envato is NOT the only place to buy..

I usually only buy photos for graphic design projects and this is not a place to buy for me, because photographers are paid only %33.. photodune community is heavily non-exclusive.. I prefer buying from sites which pay them %50 or more.. this is out of respect for image creators and myself as well..

I even use google to see if the artist has his/her own site, so that I can directly purchase from them to avoid paying the middle-man.. if they don’t have a site, then I prefer middle-men who pay them better..

obviously I don’t buy vectors because I can pretty much draw whatever I want..

and I don’t buy themes because I am good enough to edit a free wordpress theme into anything I want to transform..

cidepix said
Oh, I am way more experienced in buying than you think..

It’s a skilled craft.

By the way, this survey is not the ONLY route we’re taking to solve this question. We’re sorting through heaps of data, talking to specific authors, talking to buyers, etc. Author opinion, which is mostly what we get in the forums, is just one important factor.

cidepix said
Hi Shane,

I hope the buyers won’t see this post.. You know, they would choose “FREE” if they can..

imo, none of these matter: - Technical - Ability - Complexity - Originality - Simplicity - Detail - Characterization - Style (Consistency) - Clarity - Layout

The most important of all is “SALES POTENTIAL ” and that is the only thing that matters.. the simplest vector could be the best selling one and pricing it for $2 just because it is simple is the worst approach ever..

If a customer needs it, it will sell no matter the price.. I have got files that are consistently selling for $30 dollars on many of my agents.. Some of which you abysmaly priced for $2

You are losing me money, but most importantly you are losing YOU money because you get %66 of the total revenue.. Just check out my port and you will get the idea.. Some sold hundreds of times.. They would have still sold hundreds of times even if you had priced them at $10, instead of $2

If you are going to price vectors based on these factors: - Technical - Ability - Complexity - Originality - Simplicity - Detail - Characterization - Style (Consistency) - Clarity - Layout

then you should also price photos using this approach.. IF a large size JPEG image costs $9 no matter what, then any vector (simple or not) must cost at least $9 since a buyer who buys the vector can create a HUGE SIZE jpeg with it..

If your high res jpeg was $20, than I would price the vectors for $20 and upwards..

I agree and disagree with some of your points here. I believe that there are many vector items that are under priced, but that’s exactly why I purchased them in the first place

For example, there are many vector style icons on the site for $2 – $3 dollars that I purchase. I don’t believe these prices should be increased because many times the files come with 9 icons and I only really need 1… if the price was any higher then $5 I would just create my own icon and move on.

However, there are some really nice vector items on the site that I feel the prices should be increased.

I hope this helps and survey was filled out as well

Edit: I just looked at your portfolio and I actually purchased your zodiac signs vector… but I only needed the bull one. Perhaps you should think about taking some of your vector packs and turning them into logos, that way you could have a bit more extra cash flow. This is just a suggestion of course!

I am so reluctant to post vectors here that I haven’t post any yet Who am I to tell well known fact that “other sites” are pricing much higher?

Extremely cheap prices are only good for fighting piracy.

I have filled out the survey, be really interested to se what the results are.

There are a lot of great files on here and will my work account I buy a lot of items, as before I came they used I stock a the files there were very expensive, so it is great to have a place where they are cheap, my bosses at work could not be live how cheap they were often 10 times.

Problem I have is the pricing consistency as the quality of files is often very diffent, it would be better to just not accept the poorer items rather that give them a low price

xstortionist said

I agree and disagree with some of your points here. I believe that there are many vector items that are under priced, but that’s exactly why I purchased them in the first place

For example, there are many vector style icons on the site for $2 – $3 dollars that I purchase. I don’t believe these prices should be increased because many times the files come with 9 icons and I only really need 1… if the price was any higher then $5 I would just create my own icon and move on.

I have them available on some other sites for $30.. I’d rather sell it on that agency where I get %50 of $30, than %33 of $2.. That’s just silly.. That is the reason only %15 of my portfolio is here.. and as things stand I am not happy to keep that %15 here as well.. The only reason I just don’t withdraw my vectors is the effort I spent uploading here, and this is the site with the worst upload procedure out of 18 sites that I am submitting.. So imagine the effort!

Also: You are actually not doing “you” a favor too, because if the prices were fairer, you would have more vectors offered here.. I am not asking for $30, but it should start from $9 and go upwards.. Trust me there aren’t many people who can just create them themselves.. I am pretty sure I will still sell like hot cakes because that is what I do in those $30 agencies as well.. My experience proves my point.. My vectors are just given away here..

xstortionist said
Edit: I just looked at your portfolio and I actually purchased your zodiac signs vector… but I only needed the bull one. Perhaps you should think about taking some of your vector packs and turning them into logos, that way you could have a bit more extra cash flow. This is just a suggestion of course!

I am planing to actually withdraw all my vectors if the price is not increased significantly.. Yes, turning some of them into logos has been in my mind for a while now, but I need time to do that.. I will definitely stop giving them away for peanuts if I don’t like the new pricing though..