Price raise

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:41 pm

EDIT: Answer 3 indicates you believe that the books should be sold for 3-5 dollars more than they are currently

I love how palladium tries to keep costs low for the fans, but what is their profit margin? If profits went up, could we expect them to come out of the hole and produce more products?

Maybe prices should be raised a bit more. Not a lot, but I think they are going up $1 this year (on average), would 2 be that much harder for a fan to buy a book?

Juankis · Unread post by **Juankis** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:58 pm

If you wanna cry about price rises go to the GW forums

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:14 pm

I'm not crying...I wish it was more!

By the way...the 3 to 5 dollars is the increase, not the book price.

Dustin Fireblade · Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:04 pm

I'm sure there will be some complaints. I'm not one of them though, heck I told Kevin to raise the cost of the books at the Open House.

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:06 pm

Yep...but if you are the sole supplier (as palladium is) and the buyer wants the product, you don't have to worry about the complaints that much.

Besides...for true palladium fans, palladium has us by the balls. We have invested thousands of dollars in the system. We aren't about to change, even if the prices are raised.

The only thing that would change this is if palladium opened its system up (like the D20), but that won't happen, because we want all material to be canon and none of us would consider that canon.

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:15 pm

Can I edit the poll? It's supposed to be a $3-5 increase, not base price.

grandmaster z0b · Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:05 pm

I'm happy with a small increase ($1 or $2) would only support a bigger increase if they raised their production standards a bit; editing, typesetting etc.
RUE looked a lot better so I suppose I have to wait until I get Madhaven to see if that trend has continued.

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:41 pm

Voted. Number 2. 1 or 2 dollars is fine for an increase. I wish they didn't have to raise prices, oh well.

Nxla666 · Unread post by **Nxla666** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:46 pm

Went with number 2, raising the price by 3-5 wouldnt hurt me much but I do have to get ready for my (3

) kids holiday lists. :lol:

Toc Rat · Unread post by **Toc Rat** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:53 am

I went with option 2.

Dead Boy · Unread post by **Dead Boy** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:16 am

Given that Palladium's prices haven't really kept pace with inflation over the years, a scant one to two buck price hike is still a steal for us.

Mech-Viper Prime · Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:44 am

Palladium Books has always kept the prices down so an increase by one or two dollars isnt all that bad

Arioch · Unread post by **Arioch** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:44 am

Dead Boy wrote:Given that Palladium's prices haven't really kept pace with inflation over the years, a scant one to two buck price hike is still a steal for us.

seconded.

RockJock · Unread post by **RockJock** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:00 pm

I also thought the third choice meant they were only worth 3-5 bucks. A small increase wouldn't be a huge deal, and I would gladly pay it.

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:08 pm

Arioch wrote:
Dead Boy wrote:Given that Palladium's prices haven't really kept pace with inflation over the years, a scant one to two buck price hike is still a steal for us.

seconded.

Big fan of Jennifer Government Arioch?

I voted for option 3. I send Palladium money directly anyway...but their books are worth a lot more than they are charging.

/Sub

Juankis · Unread post by **Juankis** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:09 pm

shadrak wrote:I'm not crying...I wish it was more!

By the way...the 3 to 5 dollars is the increase, not the book price.

Sorry, not what I meant, I was trying nto preemptively shut down potential compaints; again sorry, I should have made it clearer.

I also belive they could afford a sligthly higher increment.

Next time I'll try to make my messages clerar, once more, sorry for the mix up :-(

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:31 pm

Me too

shadrak · Unread post by **shadrak** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:31 pm

Me too

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:47 pm

meh..not even gonna bother voting here.
If he raises his prices, he raises his prices.
If I like a book that's been released, I'll buy it.
Since I have not seen ONE book worth the dead tree it's been printed on since R:UE (and even that was a stretch), I haven't bought any PBooks products, regardless of price.

Don't get me wrong, if anything worth while comes out (here's hoping Mad Haven bucks the garbage trend I've been seeing lately), be assured I'll purchase it, and recommend it to my friends.

Hannibal · Unread post by **Hannibal** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:58 am

I voted for the $1-2 option. With such a heavy core of Palladium fans knowing the financial situation of the company, I think that a small price increase would not generate the usual array of complaints. We've always appreciated the company doing it's best to keep the prices down, and I think Kevin takes pride in that, so I thjink the 1-2 bucks option would be a, well, moral compromise for the company between needing more revenue and still having the pride about keeping prices relatively low.

Marrowlight · Unread post by **Marrowlight** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:50 am

I'd rather have higher prices than no Palladium, but I won't pretend to be happy about spending more money for the same amount of pages. Necessity is necessity, however.

sHaka · Unread post by **sHaka** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:31 am

option 2 - still a bargin, but I'd be happy to pay even more to help Kevin and Co.

Warwolf · Unread post by **Warwolf** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:52 pm

WonderingMind wrote:Madhaven is an excellent book. I got my copy yesterday and I have been unable to put it down. Brandon and Taylor REALLY out did themselves.

Well since they only wrote stuff for the Rifters before, it couldn't have been THAT hard.

From the sneak preview I got of the book at the Open House, the fans are going to love this one. Of course, you can't please everybody. (Yeah, I'm eyeing you DH. :-P

)

runebeo · Unread post by **runebeo** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:16 pm

Well if Palladium goes under it will cost a lot more to start a new game for me, so if a buck or two more will keep my books coming its worth it to me. Just hope they start making their dead lines for a change.

Ridley · Unread post by **Ridley** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:33 am

Ill go with the 1-2 dollar increase.

Palladium makes sure the book is good, and they sell for cheap.
Hell, anything that Wotc writes is overpriced and no where near the quallity of Pally, though i still wish that they added dbees to RUE

And for the cover thing, laminate the covers of your scourcebooks

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