Price should not mater if everything is under $10, and Stardock has a set minimum that a skin can be sold at also. I sell no more skins at $3.95 than I do at higher prices, so price doesn't matter if people just don't want to spend money. Lower prices make no difference at all.

Thanks for the additional info; Re lower prices not making a difference I wondered if that might be the case.  

Anyway, thank you for the quality skins and for gifting the community occasionally as well (Reddish is really good!)  

I can see buying a few at $3.95 but to be honest I feel that anything over 3 is to much. I would have bought many had they been 3 and under but the fact that most are 5 and above have kept me to pretty much just the free ones.

I paid 10 for WB8 and 5 to upgrade it to WB10. It seems excessive for the skins to be priced so high and I feel that if the prices were lower that the Skinners would in fact make more money due to many more sales.. I would have bought ten times the amount that I have at this point. It's a value thing for me..

I don't get the 4 dollar selling price bit. Does Stardock taking that much of a cut the reason the price has to be so high? It makes no sense to me..

You act as if there is overhead involved in creating these styles. Time is the the only investment when creating these so there really is no out of pocket for the most part.. You act as if a product is being physically manufactured. I would get into the economics of sales but I fear that it will mean nothing here..

I create apps and using them as an example, the dollar ones make ten times what those priced at 5 dollars make.. 100 sales at a buck each beats 10 sales at 5 dollars by a long shot.. If you price one at 6 and I won't buy it but will buy 2 at 3, which is better in the long run?

I don't get all the 'hype' about prices for WindowBlind skins. Take for example a price of 7.95 US for a skin created by Neone6 or Kitty. It isn't just the skin but a suite that includes an icon pack, a cursor and a wallpaper a steal IMO. Other skins at 3.95 US or 4.95 US or 5.95 US......these are 'high' prices? Give me a break. I exist on a fixed income that doesn't allow for many extras. At the end of the month I have enough left over to purchase several skins. I haven't yet due to certain obligations. Soon though I'll be in a better position to do what I like. So think about it. At 500.00 US from social security every month, which isn't very much, if I can do it and not even feel the pinch then I'm very sure others can also. I'm also very sure that even buying one skin a month isn't going to break the bank. Every meal you eat every day, three times for most people, cost more than that. So please...stop all the nonsense about prices being 'too high'. If you believe they're too expensive don't buy them! Simple. Complaining about them is just another exercise in futility. My two cents.

Your ignorance is showing...

Someone hosts the skins.

Someone manages payments.

Someone reimburses the vendor.

Need I go on?

If we get pedantic then the skinner has his/her own 'overheads', and it is not "only time".

What exactly is the fee charged these days for a copy of Photoshop?

Or should it now be an annual subscription fee....

I guess my example was too simplistic for some to comprehend.

Master Skin prices skyrocket!:https://forums.wincustomize.com/460532/

Solely on Windowblinds part,the market is small therefore slowing the prices does not guarantee sale boost,so to speak.  

There is always an assumption that if a person thinks a price is too high [for them] then it MUST be wrong.

If you don't like the price, or don't want to pay whatever it is, that does not actually mean the price point is wrong.  It simply means you either are ignorant of the costs involved or simply do not value/appreciate the product's worth.

Back to my simple analogy.  How pray tell is anything commercially viable when the price is 1 cent but the product's packaging costs 2 cents alone?  3 cents means there is still no 'margin'....so you price it at 4.  Along comes someone who claims...but it's only 'worth' one cent....why is it 4?

Answer...

You simply do not see its value...so don't buy it.

....and it is not a commodity...an essential like bread or milk.  it's an art form, and anyone who has made a skin will tell you the work involved is worth a damn sight more than the pricing asked.

When I first started skinning my internet access cost me $2 per hour....every hour....at dial-up speed [33.6].  No-one paid me my overheads for publicly making my skins accessible online.  My most recent 'skin' is a paint kit for an aircraft in FSX.  It has taken several hours per day every day since 15th of Feb, 2016.

 The image is per-pixel high resolution....92 layers and PSP6 sees it at 2966 meg. I'd value its 'cost' at around $20,000.  I won't be releasing the full version at all, only a 'simplified' version that's a 65 meg file with about 10 layers....so others can skin the aircraft using it.  I'd imagine the world-wide market for the full kit would probably be countable on the fingers of one hand, no matter how much was charged for it...so there is no point doing so.  Instead, I take requests for skins. 

But that's my choice, not dictated to me by people who don't appreciate/value the effort involved....

One cool snake. I meant plane. I mean both.

Quoting mrtabby,

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..just thought i would mention here how grateful i am.. Thank YOU to tha artists!! I love windowblinds!

Speaking for myself and I'm sure the others would agree. Thank you.

I enjoyed the early days when there were many more "enthusiast" skinners who offered their skins for free, but it's worth noting that many of those early skins had flaws and I stopped using them fairly quickly.  "The devil is in the details" and what distinguishes the best skins (and makes them worth buying) is every aspect works properly; that makes them usable long term instead of just curiosities.