Ripping individual authors is abominable. Did they not pay you for products they admittedly delivered, or did they deliver more products than they admitted to?
Regarding the margins: Just my two cents, but we have been a software reseller/developer since 1982 and expect a 40% to 50% margin on the products we resell and support. I can assure you, with the costs of doing business as a brick and mortar, an average gross margin in the 40-50% range does not allow more than a 9% to 12% bottom line (that's if you do everything right). As an ESD only, those numbers may improve, but 30% does not seem greedy. However, 100% is out and out thievery. I hope you recover from them and trust there is an ethical ESD publisher out there. Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael-Clarke Company, Inc. Since 1982 825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904 (239) 945-0821 Voice (239) 045-1112 Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Living well as an independent PalmOS developer > > But I did get an e-mail from Palmgear saying that there are people > > who develop exclusively for palmgear. > > um.. thats a load of crap. > > we used to exclusively *sell* on palmgear - until they screwed us > big time and didn't pay (yes, you can ask many developers) - we were > screwed extra because we actually went *exclusive*. > > as such we refuse to sell on any ESD site - mainly because they > are all run by a bunch of creedy pigs; thinking about how to make > a quick buck instead of helping the developers who actually gave > them a reason to exist in the first place. > > 30% commission? for what? credit card payments are 30c + 3%. > if you do the math, even after taking out costs of bandwidth > etc - 30% gives them quite a chunk of change in their pockets. > > we actually have our own webstore using www.esellerate.net > = great service, and we also accept payments over paypal. unless > you are prepared to pay for advertising on ESD's - there is > no real point to even listing your software there; people wont > even find you. > > --- > Aaron Ardiri > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php [profile] > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
