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orclover
Mitglied seit in Jun 2012
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28. July 2023, 209 antworten
I hope it goes well, others want it to fail 😟^|And just how backwards is that... Wanting the project to fail?If it fails, maybe Totem Fails with it...Why the Heck would anyone want to wish something like that?Shows you how disrespectful many of the members here are.Disgusting, absolutely Disgusting that we have members that would wish this on the company !

Most anger is associated with not being able or willing to access all the content because of price walls. This makes people feel poor and inferior to others who are able or willing to spend hundreds and thousands on istripper perks. This by nature pisses people off. It takes humility and thoughtfulness to understand that totem is creating tiers for all kinds of customers and figuring out as we speak how to leverage the wealthiest. This new decision is one of the few that ***** the main buyers, especially new customers...most of the time us "poors" just have to deal with not getting a special event card, or a dolz set, now we see our prices rise, which is a big deal for people who do not have a lot of disposable income and are not gamblers by nature. I imagine totem can't survive long term without new customers and maintaining the hundreds or thousands of selectors that pick and choose, but in this new age of people spending 500-1000 for a dolz card, who the hell knows. Maybe seeing the wild spending on dolz pushed them to not worry as much about new or lower level customers. A risky game it seems.

It is also really bad optics to announce week after week thousands of dollars spent on dolz cards, and a new VR project just as they raise prices on istripper. I think the idea that istripper would be supported by dolz and would be maintained at the same price point kept people from boiling over.
TheEmu
Mitglied seit in Jul 2012
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28. July 2023, 209 antworten
They are making cards and not putting them in the catalog .. the catalog is incomlete or not to full potential.

True - but that is not what you said before which was that they were shrinking the catalogue. They are not, they are making exactly as many cards for the catalog as they would do if the SECs did not exist and if they did not exist the extra cards would not have been made.

They could, of course, release more than seven cards a week but it is not obvious that that would result in increased sales.

'average' price is not what I meant. I'm talking about income or revenue.

So was I. What should be maximised is indeed, as you say, the total income which is

    Income = Sum for all i ( P(i) )

where i runs from 1 to N where N is the total number of cards sold, by any method, in whatever period we want to evaluate the income over and P(i) is the selling price of the i'th sale, Note that the i'th sale may be for a different card to those before and after it, I am not limiting this to the sales of a single card. Also note that by "selling price" I am not restricting myself to those sold normally via the store but the cost to the customer of obtaining that card no matter how it was acquired. The values of P(i) will vary depending on the card,how much it was discounted and how it was acquired, but the total value given by the above expressing will be equal to N * P' where P' is the average of all the P(i) values.
dar2112v
Mitglied seit in Dec 2007
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They are taking many of the best cards out of the catalog
I do not think that less than 1% of the available cards can be regarded as "many". .

I believe I've heard 70 or 1.5 years worth of DOLZ plus several IS game exclusive cards a month.. That may not be many to you but to me it is.


and shrinking the catalog.
No they are not. Every week 7 cards are released for sale, if the SECs had been released as regular cards then an equal number of other cards would not have been released. .

They are making cards and not putting them in the catalog .. the catalog is incomlete or not to full potential. You are correct it is not growing smaller but ***** none the less. And I think they are ***** the time value of the card by making them exclusive. I don't have any facts but I think the cards lose value (less interest/less urgency/etc) as they get older so members will be less willing to jump through hoops to get the cards.


Totem has to figure their way on the curve selling the max number of cards at the max price.
Not quite correct but I understand what you mean. They don't need to seek to maximise either the number of cards sold nor the price per card but to maximise the product of the number of cards times their average price .

'average' price is not what I meant. I'm talking about income or revenue. As the prices go up there will be fewer buyers but more income per show sold (what I think you are calling 'price'). So what Totem wants to do is get the max price while maintaining as many buyers as possible. I think the term is price and demand elasticity. Let's look at in reverse; think of a curve graph showing more buyers coming in as the price drops. You want to stop lowering the price at the point there number of new buyers are not offsetting the lost revenue. Again using my $1 vs $10 per show you have to sell 10x of the $1 show to generate the same revenue. I would buy zero shows for $10 and as many shows as I want at $1 my personal threshold is somewhere in the middle.




dar2112v
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but if more are "sold" as a result of the SECs then that makes them profitablet. Of course if the average cost of winning a card is greater than that for buying one the effect of SECs will be even higher.

I think we agree

I look at very simply. It's not about the price of the card sold or the number of cards sold; it is about the revenue a card generates and the time it generates revenue. In other words you can sell 10x of a card for $1,000 and have $10,000 in revenue or sell 100,000 of a card at $1 each and generate $100,000 in revenue. Totem has to figure their way on the curve selling the max number of cards at the max price. I'm not sure what my max price would be but it is well below $1,000 and even if the cards were $0.01 (1 US cent) I wouldn't buy the all because I don't want all of them. That's just me, quite obvious everyone will have their own limits.

And really it has nothing to do with the shows themselves but the credits required to buy them. It's not complicated if they are adding buyers and current members are still buying then revenue is increasing organically and if not then revenue is declining or stagnant and possibly not keeping pace with increased expenses .

I don't care about the price increase; in fact if it made the exclusives go away I would welcome it. As it is for me now, it simply means I'll skip a show or two I might have bought or spend a small precent more to get all the shows I want. The exclusive cards do annoy me so I'm not buying anything right now.

Getting back to the topic, why would Totem keep doing exclusive content if it's not generating enough revenue to avoid having to raise the price which if obviously is offending more than a few members. They are taking many of the best cards out of the catalog so those of us ***** to participate in the 'games' (for lack of a better or nicer word) can't buy them at all and shrinking the catalog. Loosing members and limiting the catalog probably isn't good for revenues so one has to hope the exclusives can compensate,

I have no insight to the balance sheet so maybe loosing a few members or some members buying less but getting more per card will work out. What is offensive is the possibility they need more revenue to pay for its latest 'game'.