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Even the payfiles on WMM are quite cheap compared to most of the stuff out there, which is often more around $50.

I think particularly many of the hypnodommes price their files high because they have few, but loyal customers. It's not an easy service to market, so they don't attract many new customers on a day-to-day basis, but the customers they do manage to lure in will often stay loyal and be willing to pay the somewhat high prices. By this I'm also implying that many hypnodommes make their customers more loyal through their files.

I also agree that it's a little hard to justify the purchase when you don't know the exact contents of the file. Just with free files here on WMM, I've experienced many files that were a little off from how I imagined them when reading the description, which, in the case of a payfile, could mean that money was wasted on a file I wouldn't be interested in listening to.

My thought on such things is to price it by the file. Ones that are more niche I put higher in price, ones more general are lower(and ones that are very general are premium/free). Still, I try to keep most at 15 dollars(which drop down even more when a sale happens).

If it sounds like I'm bitching, I'm not. It's an honest question about hypnosis in general.

I can see some reasons why somebody would price their files so high, such as a feeling that there's no way to turn back, a way to add subliminals to keep your customers, or to add to the illusion that it's of better quality than the cheaper stuff. Kind of like how bottled water is priced. People swear that the higher priced stuff tastes better, but in the end, it's just water. Not that you can't put genuine effort into making high quality water, but people tend to take the easy shortcut.

When talking about hypnosis, many people tend to compare it to things like movies, but if you want to see a movie, you expect to pay about $20 to see it. Imagine if you had to pay a separate price to see each individual movie depending on quality or effort.

I guess instead, you could compare it to book prices instead. The more effort and quality put into a book, the higher it's priced. A book will put you into a better trance than a movie will and taps into your subconscious so you can learn from the information given.

However, even books tend to employ strategies to gain a bigger following, like libraries, or dropping the price if it's not selling.

EMG is actually fairly smart when it comes to gaining a following. I don't think I would have gotten as far into hypnosis as I am if it weren't for this site.

There is a secondary issue here. Market size. If I write and publish a song my potential marker it millions of people. If I do an erotic fetish file my marked is probably in the hundreds. I need to charge more to get a return on my investment of time and energy. Still, some authors do charge $10-15 while others charge more. That decision is mostly their own choice.

That's true. I can understand the supply/demand dealie.

The answer is that the authors want to make money. It would be an interesting experiment to create two similar files and price one very cheap and one very expensive and see which one makes more money in the long run. Now, for this to be successful, people couldn't know that the two files were part of an experiment and be able to impact the results.

When it comes to a song, the recording artist potentially has millions of fans who can buy the song, but for hypnosis, there may only be 100 people who would download any given song. A recording artist could be paid $.70 for each song sold and still make millions while the person who creates a hypnosis file may struggle to make $100. It doesn't mean that either piece of work is really more valuable to the individual customer.