I had no issue with the theme price because I think creators should be paid for their work. But many of the features presented in the UI are behind a paywall and it's very frustrating.
My unverified personal assumption is that the sales approach this company uses is to reserve features from all themes and sell them in companion products by the same developer, such as QI Add Ons. This may make it possible to say "you got what you paid for" with the theme purchase.
But between the theme/QI features behind a paywall, and the editor (Elementor) features behind a paywall, it's really irritating that you have to pay SUBSTANTIALLY more than the initial purchase price to use what's there. I usually try to evaluate this type of thing carefully because this seems to be the whole WordPress business model, but you can't really see what's included and what's an add-on until after the purchase.
Author response
Hi there,
We are sorry to hear this but the themes feature everything you do see on our demo website and we are not sure what you refer to since this has nothing to do with the Qi Addons that is included within the theme.
It additionally offers different widgets and there is a free and premium plugin but this has nothing to do with the theme it self as everything you do see on our Pellicula theme demo will be included once you import demo content.
If you need any assistance with this you are more than welcome to turn to our support team and we would appreciate it if you could submit a ticket to our Help Center where one of our support agents will assist you.
You can always read more about the refund policy here but we do hope that once this misunderstanding is resolved that you will reconsider your rating.
Best,
Edge
