People who don't do graphics design have no way of knowing what goes into it; you have to educate them.

It's not a real skin unless you made it one pixel at a time in MS paint...

I once made a skin in MSpaint some years ago. It was for sysmetrix and one of the responses I got when I posted the pic was "It would be a nightmare with all the curves" The name was Emerald.

None of the skins is 'goddamned' <-  whatever that is attempting to pass as communication.

If you do not want to pay $7 for a skin... do what others of similar mind do...and don't.

None of the skins is 'unstable crap'.  What CAN BE SEEN as such is the public Beta that is [still] Windows 10.

Also do what others do...and don't come and complain like a spoilt child as if you can influence the price.

CHEAP BASTARDS ...

BASTARDY BASTARDS

It's attempting to pass frustration, which I believe it did. If you're too stupid to understand that then maybe you should look up what context is.

Maybe google the definition of an exclamation and an expletive? Conveying feeling is part of communication but I don't suppose you're intelligent enough to understand that. 



I won't and I will continue to make sure that every other windows user I talk to don't either.



Even on Windows 7 most of the skins work appropriately. Text is missing, sizes are completely random, some fonts aren't even set by the skin. Elements misaligned in the UI.

Just because you don't want to get your head out of developer vagina long enough to look at them doesn't make them flawless, seriously get the fuck over yourself. A lot of the skins simply are not nearly of high enough quality to warrant such absurd prices, and unless I get a written guarantee that they continue to work for the entirety of WindowsBlinds 10's lifespan I have no intention of paying for them.

As it stands you get a skin which:

• probably doesn't work
• Isn't guaranteed to continue to work in any capacity that it currently does (if it works at all)
• Costs $7 per skin talk about expensive trial and error.
• Is in no way demo-able prior to use.

Fuck you, I paid for a goddamned subscription and I can post here just as freely as anyone else. I had no intention of adjusting the price just wanted to let them know that their running a racket. I have as much a right to a voice as anyone else, I'm sure that people calling this dying community a racket upsets you but silencing these voices isn't the solution.

Enjoy your dying community.  

I'll leave your comments...

...and post mine....---->

Go away.

Consider yourself 'silenced'.

I'm not a Master Skinner but......I DO KNOW! (exclamation intentional) that the skins work. Next month I'll be here 10 years. In 10 years I have had exactly....exactly one issue with a Master WB I skinned for. The very same day the problem was solved. You're here less than a year and you don't know anyone...not really. Throwing obscenities around only hurts your position. Give it some time, run all the skins you want...or not...but begrudging those who have earned they're position is wrong. No one is twisting your arm dude.  

I get were he is coming from, to bad most of you can't, nor can you seem to carry on a constructive conversation about the pricing. You all resort to ignoring what is said and post the same "it's art" mantra all the while insulting anyone who questions the individual value of these skins. Maybe you all are the ones that need to go see a therapist.. It's pretty clear we are dealing with a bunch of Apple like elitist types here which means they are unreachable. Guess what boys, your shit sticks just like all everyone else..

might as well give up on trying to have an adult conversation about it Raymond as it will never happen.. I get your frustration.

I will only add this because of your statement.

Did you happen to see your friend Raymond's first post on this thread? reply #56. I call that as far away from an adult conversation one can have and that was his first post on here as I said.

A Master can't sell a skin for a dollar if they wanted to. Read reply 24 and 31. That just about explains it all. Also there are overhead cost to Stardock. That is why the Master Skinner doesn't receive the full selling price. SD has to have accounting keep track of the downloads, send out checks, do the paper work necessary at the end of the year in order to send out W2 forms. Now the skinner has to add the years total sales amount to their income. If they are at the amount where they have to pay taxes then the skin total also gets taxed.

So, it's not as cut and dry as many may think. I'm pretty sure I said this in an adult way. 

Stardock and Wincustomize.com [and the skinners, Masters included] WELCOME "adult conversations".  In fact not only do we encourage them...we REQUIRE them.

What we do have in this thread, however, are decidedly IMMATURE [not just naive] comments and contributors who have paid the price of failing to comply with Stardock's T.O.U. and are thus no longer welcome.

 

Getting back to basics.... yes...mass market price-points can see low prices for volume.  Japan proved that, and subsequently Taiwan and next China.  People like Harley Davidson in the US had to appeal to the US Govt for protection for low-priced mass-volume imports..... proves there is more than one side to 'volume pricing'.

Skins, like it or not are an art-form.  Something 'created' by man whose intrinsic value is GREATER than the material used in its manufacture, just like a painting.

They are also a commodity that has the potential to be sold, that like all other commodities actually does have overheads.

Saying something is NOT worth the price asked for it is simply the consumers' "freedom of choice".  No amount of argument/complaint or even facile abuse is going to affect the situation.  I personally think anything made by Apple is over-priced crap compared to the alternatives.  That's my opinion...and my choice...so I do not buy Apple products.

That's my exertion of my influence on the status quo of current commercialism.

It hasn't and never will affect/upset Apple...not one bit.

 

Are the Master skins too expensive?  Yes, they are...for some people.  Others are willing to pay for them as they appreciate the effort involved and/or intrinsic quality... or they simply want to give something back to those in this community who do more than just bitch-and-moan because it's kewl to bitch-and-moan.

 

Currently Stardock considers the Master Skin pricing to be about right.  If there were a 'magic switch' that could be flipped to make both the skinners and Stardock a shit-load of dosh and we could all retire to the French Riviera I'm pretty sure it would have been flipped long ago...

 

I want to emphasize that an important part of an adult conversation is treating others with respect.  That means not insulting people with "four letter" words among other things.  On many forums RaymondLC92's posts would have been immediately deleted and his account banned, and that's exactly what should happen IMHO.