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I like seeing the newest positive posts on the front page, too!  Good idea to pop 'em on there.

10 minutes ago, Celestina said:

Howdy!  Bewares > Positive Reviews

Currently we aren't accepting them until we lay down some ground rules to prevent issues with people spamming positive reviews in response to a beware.

Good to know, TY

Good to hear! 

8 minutes ago, Celestina said:

It's different I'll say. I'd approach it the way I'd approach art prices normally:  if clients are willing to pay good for them. If the market considers it ridiculous then the market won't bid.

It's something I personally wouldn't participate in though.

Agree completely.  I'd never buy or sell anything like that, myself.  But if others will pay for it/do it, that's not my business.

This is tiny, but Yay there's a favicon now!  My bookmark is no longer a blank square beside the name, lol.

14 minutes ago, Alex Wright said:

My posts, as well as moderator and administrator posts all have reputation disabled on them.

But I'm able to add reactions to Cel's posts just fine?  Their profile says they're an admin.

I notice since logging in today that it's only showing Cautions on the front page instead of all bewares like before.  I much preferred when it was showing all of the newest bewares at a glance on the front page instead of me having to navigate through several pages to be able to see them all.

6 hours ago, Alex Wright said:

I'm very glad you're enjoying the site! Took a little while to get everything put together just so, and we're obviously still working out a few of the kinks. The Reactions you're noticing extend site-wide as well. They're on bewares, resources, etc!

I'm not seeing the reactions on any bewares, though?  There's never an option for them on bewares.

Also this is odd, but I never get the reaction option on any of your posts, even in the forums section.  I can react to everyone else's posts in the forums but I never get the option for you specifically.

Cel said I could drop this post in the Site Questions forum for now.  I figure if anyone else has similar feedback, just drop it in the comments here to keep everything in one place?

+I like that mods/admins can add a visible Resolved!-type message on bewares themselves, instead of only in the comments.  Here's an example where they did so: https://artistsbeware.info/beware/submissions/kircai-r124/

+Having the site organized so bewares are separate from other posts is really nice.  Quicker and easier to navigate than using all the tags on LJ.

+Having those reaction buttons in the forum section is nice.  I personally always felt weird/lame when replying to a comment on the LJ comm just to say "I agree" and nothing else.  It felt kind of useless?  I feel I can show the same agreement now with the reaction button and it keeps me from cluttering up the replies.

I don't feel it's written super poorly, but part of me feels it's a bit wordy/long in some places?

But speaking as a commissioner, seeing that wouldn't personally make me wary of commissioning you.  It's just a few straight-forward things and wouldn't push me away.

2 hours ago, lunarhallow said:

If you go by the hourly price, make sure you're charging at least your area's minimum wage.

Ah, I would never feel comfortable charging that much...  Because I work with a mouse and not a tablet, I can spend 5, 10, maybe even 15 hours on an adopt.  No one's going to buy any of them for $100+ which 10 or 15 hours would add up to.

Yep, it's been fixed.  TY for that, I had actually hoped myself something could be done about that.

2 hours ago, Bornes said:

I think it depends on what your turnaround time is, which no one else has mentioned.

Good point, that would definitely factor into my decision to buy something at a price point like this.

A good portion of my business is selling adoptables that are made on bases that I've purchased.  [All of the ones I use for this are allowed to be used for adopts/sales/profits.]  Sometimes I edit the base in a small way [I work with a mouse, not a tablet, so I'm limited to simple changes like piercings, jewelry, stockings, etc.], but most times I leave the base as-is and just color it.

I've never really considered the pricing of these adoptables in-depth.  Almost all of my adoptables are Pay What You Want/PWYW where I set a minimum price that I'll accept.  Usually I just slap on whatever price comes to mind that seems fair; there's no rhyme or reason to it.  Generally I price mine between $3USD and $18USD minimums.

But anyways.

How do you guys price adopts?  How much [if at all] do your prices differ between on- and off-base designs?  Do you have any system/rules as to what you set prices as?  Any advice about how I'm doing things?