Since the topic of pricing has been come up a few times, here is a little explanation why we are going to increase the price:
The income we generate from GarageSale license sales for the last few years only covered around 20% of what our company of three needs to stay in business.
We believe thats mostly due to factors beyond our control: Most causal sellers (the user we initially targeted) are fine with eBay’s mobile tools and the eBay website isn’t as bad as it used be. Also, many sellers moved to other platforms (various classified sites, Amazon, etc.)
To keep this company alive, for the past few years Paul, Kristian and me have been contracting at day for other companies. At night and during weekends with been working on GarageSale: continuously integrating eBay’s and Apple’s changes, handling user support, fixing bugs, etc…
But at some point we came to the conclusion that the amount of work has become too much to handle for us and our families.
So, either we are able to increase to amount of money we are making with GarageSale, so we can cut back on consulting jobs – or we discontinue GarageSale entirely. Hence the price increase for GS 8.
Keep in mind, that GarageSale is a niche application, with only a few hundred active users (some of which a very demanding). That means the cost of maintaining GarageSale has to be split among only these few users. Naturally, you might need to pay a little more compared to non-niche mainstream applications.
To summarise we are not trying to rip anybody off, “slapping our users in the face”, or “blackmailing our users”. We are just trying to stay in business without working crazy hours.
Knowing this, you should ask yourself if the value/time saved that GarageSale provides to you really isn’t worth those $15/month we are asking for.
PS. It’s 10.30 PM now. Arrived at the office at 9 AM this morning.