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I think it's a nice idea and I'm really interested to see how you execute on it.

I mentioned it on the form but I'll say it again here. I think for prices around what you're talking about it makes sense to make them per month $25/year is about $2/month, if you ask me to spend $25 up front for something I might think about it but $2 just seems like nothing.



Suggestion for the OP: offer a no-questions-asked money-back refund (say 30 days), and/or allow people to have a free trial period.

Optimizing a successful business around people who think $25 is a lot of money to spend at one time is a tough road (I'm happy to talk offline about personal experiences here). No offense to @almost, I'm not saying he's being cheap, only that he may not value this niche as other people (similarly, I would be a horrible customer for Pokemon anything). The bottom line is $25/year is about what paper refills cost for cheap day planners; not a lot of money in any objective sense.

I'd try to capture people who perceive more than $2/month of value in what you offer, and tune the product to offer them even more.


Would you feel the same if he had to raise the prices to cover the fixed fee per transaction that most payment processors charge?


I think so, if you doubled it to $4 it just still seems like less to me, I know it's not but that's how it feels...




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