Yeah, I know, Rich. Probably a lot more than the number of people that DO want to buy at that price.
I believe that my previous Negro League Baseball Collectibles Guide was priced very fairly at $29.95 and I never had one person indicate that they thought it was too expensive for the material that they received.
This 4-Sport guide is approximately 70 pages longer and thus will cost me an additional $5.00 per copy from my printer, which is very fair, and left me with a planned price point of $34.95, which I don't think anyone would mind paying for all that they will receive with this guide.
Having not been able to raise the necessary advertising money to fund this project, it was requested by several potential buyers that they would be willing to pay well over my advertised sale price for the book and maybe many others would as well in order to make up the lost funds.
Based on the poll and feedback that I have seen thus far, there is not enough interest at the $49.95 price point to make things work. So, it appears that I must continue to solicit more advertising pages and the release of the book will remain on hold until enough funds are raised.
Another issue that I will run into, probably sooner rather than later, is when I exhaust the number of sales at the higher $49.95 price and still have many, many copies of the book left, I will have to reduce the price to sell more copies and that's really not going to be fair to those that paid more for it and I'm probably going to receive undue criticism for that as well.
Last edited by bcbgcbrcb; 05-11-2015 at 09:12 AM.
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