"Price goes up with EVERY sale!" (then) "Hurry! Only 6 left at this price!" (???)

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Saw that on a wso.

Makes no sense, right?

-- TW
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  • Profile picture of the author wfhblueprints
    Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

    Saw that on a wso.

    Makes no sense, right?

    -- TW
    Timothy its quite common for people to bump the prices up after a few sales rather than on everysale....this might be a case where the OP may have decided against hiking the price up every sale and changed the settings last minute, whilst forgetting to do it on the WSO.

    Benefits those who want to buy though.....at the cheaper price

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  • Profile picture of the author ArwenTaylor
    That is confusing and I think the person should go back and make the necessary changes. Otherwise, they risk looking like they are trying to pull a fast one.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Legitimate scarcity is a powerful marketing tactic. In fact, most of my WSOs
      have a limit on the number sold or price increases after a certain number sold.

      Instead of bashing things you don't understand with no basis of fact as regard
      to how effective or not effective something is, how about studying what people
      do, try them out for yourself, and THEN come to conclusions?

      And people wonder why they fail as marketers. :rolleyes:
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      • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Legitimate scarcity is a powerful marketing tactic. In fact, most of my WSOs
        have a limit on the number sold or price increases after a certain number sold.

        Instead of bashing things you don't understand with no basis of fact as regard
        to how effective or not effective something is, how about studying what people
        do, try them out for yourself, and THEN come to conclusions?

        And people wonder why they fail as marketers. :rolleyes:
        Hi Steven -- you may be missing the point. I know about scarcity, etc. This is illogical + paradoxical scarcity (+ therefore not to be believed).

        Can't say price rises with EVERY sale, then say there are 6 remaining at this (SAME) price.
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        • Profile picture of the author Trapped
          Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

          Hi Steven -- you may be missing the point. I know about scarcity, etc. This is illogical + paradoxical scarcity (+ therefore not to be believed).

          Can't say price rises with EVERY sale, then say there are 6 remaining at this (SAME) price.
          If it has reached the top price and the amount of copies the seller wants to sell, it might even make sense. Unless it is just a loosy attempt to get few quick more sales before the sunrises ...
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          • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
            Originally Posted by Trapped View Post

            If it has reached the top price and the amount of copies the seller wants to sell, it might even make sense. Unless it is just a loosy attempt to get few quick more sales before the sunrises ...
            There's no way that can make sense. After I buy, what is the price for the next person? The same price (5 left). So, how did the price RISE after EVERY sale? It didn't.
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            • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
              Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

              There's no way that can make sense. After I buy, what is the price for the next person? The same price (5 left). So, how did the price RISE after EVERY sale? It didn't.
              I'd have to look at the actual WSO. Perhaps there's a typo or you misread it.

              Because if it's as your claiming, no, it doesn't make sense.

              You can't post links here so if you want to PM the WSO to me, I'll take a look
              at it.

              I'm sure there is a logical explanation.
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      • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Legitimate scarcity is a powerful marketing tactic. In fact, most of my WSOs
        have a limit on the number sold or price increases after a certain number sold.

        Instead of bashing things you don't understand with no basis of fact as regard
        to how effective or not effective something is, how about studying what people
        do, try them out for yourself, and THEN come to conclusions?

        And people wonder why they fail as marketers. :rolleyes:
        Damn, Steven.

        Did someone wiz in your Cheerios or something? Your reply is totally uncharacteristic.
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      • Profile picture of the author JieLim
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Legitimate scarcity is a powerful marketing tactic. In fact, most of my WSOs
        have a limit on the number sold or price increases after a certain number sold.

        Instead of bashing things you don't understand with no basis of fact as regard
        to how effective or not effective something is, how about studying what people
        do, try them out for yourself, and THEN come to conclusions?

        And people wonder why they fail as marketers. :rolleyes:
        I agree with Steven that legitimate scarcity is a powerful tactic. The real key is that you keep your integrity and you keep true to your words. So if you say only 6 spots left, you better be sure you close the offer after those 6 spots, otherwise your reputation and honesty would be tarnished. People would just see you as an dishonest sales person and wouldn't trust you in the future.
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  • Profile picture of the author sal64
    It's a conspiracy man... all the gurus are out to rip you off.

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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
    Doesn't really bother me -- I'm sure the person is not trying to do anything shady. It just represents a mental bump in the road when reading the sales copy. A thing that makes ya go Hhhmmm?
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  • Profile picture of the author ArwenTaylor
    @Steven Wagenheim

    Um, I don't think anyone was bashing anything. The OP and I were simply pointing out how confusing the text was on the offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    I see what you are saying Timothy that the fact is the price should increase after every sale like the headline mentions but its not; it increases in bunches.

    This is just poor reflection on the sellers part really cause I for one will not to buy that. But then again, thats just me and there many others who don't really care.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
    Hi Steve...

    I'm not here to bash a wso (so I'd rather not post the link). Let's just say it is a very popular wso at the moment. I'm sure it's just an oversight. Purpose of this OP is just to point out how illogical/paradoxical copy can give people pause when they are assessing an offer.

    Cheers.

    -- TW

    PS: Better way of putting it -- "Price will automatically increase every so often -- The only way to GUARANTEE you can get it at this LOW PRICE is to BUY RIGHT NOW!"
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Although I can see your point and the wording is a little off, it does actually make some sense. The price is technically being raised by every sale. The price increase may not be an actual price increase for every sale but every purchase made is pushing up the price eventually. Every person who buys, regardless of whether or not they are the 5th person or 6th person is getting the offer one step closer to the price increase. So technically every sale is affecting the price of the product.

    I do think they could make things a little clearer but hey, it's not something that would stop me from buying a product I really liked. Clearly it's just a little oversight by the product owner.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

    Makes no sense, right?
    Sometimes people edit their sales copy and miss something.

    They have price going up with every sale, and get complaints that when a $5 buy button was clicked the product was $5.40 instead.

    So they change the parameters of the sale to go up $1 every 10 sales instead of 10 cents every sale, but forget to edit the part where it says the price goes up with every sale.

    Mistakes really do happen. We're not all perfect all the time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Vraibel
    I'd presume that that's a mistake.

    If he's an honest guy around here, I hope he takes note of this thread and gets it cleared up.
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  • Profile picture of the author zamzung
    Hm, does it really matters? Price will go up, that's for sure... OK, OP probably made a mistake, or it was intentionally, although I don't see why... but it's not really a question for so much discussion... but it somehow interesting how deep you went with checking that WSO I never get to those details... I go through sales copy, if I like it I press buy button... where would I get for checking each and every sentence of each WSO...
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  • Profile picture of the author bkat52
    Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

    Saw that on a wso.

    Makes no sense, right?

    -- TW
    Right. I'm with ya on that. Probably just a simple oversight by the seller. Maybe a good thing to pm the seller and let them know so they can correct. That'd be the warrior thing to do
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