Topic: Proposed Pricing Schedule
Each adventure will be 32 or 48 A5 pages, as text and format and layout dictates.
Each adventure will have a target of $6,000. The budget for each project covers professional writing + art + editing + layout + printing and is the same for every project (I am assuming 48 pages when budgeting the printing). Remember that fees associated with crowdfunding eat just under 10% of all money taken in. That $6,000 is right about break-even depending on how currency fluctuations turn out at the time I need to pay everyone.
$1.00 The Upsell
IndieGoGo doesn't allow changes to your contribution after you've made it. If you'd like to increase your contribution level, just pay in the difference using this option (on the same project you made your initial purchase, please!).
This is necessary because of the way IndieGoGo's interface works.
$10.00 PDF
PDF Copy of This Adventure
This does includes all the bells and whistles - bookmarking, layers you can turn off for printing, all that fun stuff.
600 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$20.00 Print + PDF
Print Copy Shipped First Class + PDF Copy of This Adventure.
The retail price for each adventure will be 11€-12€, and each adventure will be shipped to you first class. With the dollar vs euro exchange rate constantly fluctuating, you'll come out either a couple dollars ahead or behind with this as you would if you ordered the adventure after its release.
300 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$30.00 Adventure + Extra
Help out the campaign! You get this adventure in Print + PDF plus a separate "What I would do with this" sheet by James Edward Raggi IV.
The "Players Secret Advantage" thing was such a surprise success I'd be really dumb to not offer something similar. Of course this is more of a "I want to support this campaign!" gesture than getting something that's really worth ten extra dollars.
200 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
This is where things get interesting. If you are just interested in one or a few adventures, you choose the above options and that's that. If you want more and are willing to take a bit of a chance, there are the options below that, funding willing, give you more adventures at a discount.
The risk here is that less adventures fund and you paid more than you would have to fund them individually, or that the adventure you put this option on doesn't fund and you get nothing. Strategizing your bundle buys with others is probably the way to go.
$100.00 Grab Bag!
You get this adventure and five other adventures that fund, picked at random, in Print + PDF format.
It has to be random as the possibility of screwing up people's specific requests would be too great. But you'd choose this option on the adventure you most want to fund to help it along.
This option is $20, 16.6%, less than if contributing to six adventures individually.
60 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$150.00 Grab Bag + Extras!
You get this adventure and five other adventures that fund picked at random in Print + PDF form, plus the "What I would do with this" sheets for those adventures.
This option is $30, 16.6%, less than if contributing to six adventures + extras individually.
There are no Gardening Society options for these grab bags because IndieGoGo only allows 12 perk options.
40 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$160.00 Gardening Faithful
Like "The Faithful" below, but ONLY for Pembrooktonshire Gardening Society members. If you're not a member and you buy this option you'll get 8 adventures.
Gardening Society members get a $20 discount here. More than you pay to get in the Society.
If 8 adventures fund, you break even vs the cost of contributing to each individually.
Assuming 16 adventures fund, this is a $160, 50% discount over paying in to each individually. If 18 fund, that's $200, 55.6% off.
38 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$180.00 The Faithful
Forget multiple campaign contributions, choose this one-and-done option, and you'll receive every funded adventure from these campaigns in Print and PDF. See the long description on the left.
This is where it gets interesting. If 9 adventures fund, you've broken even vs the cost of contributing to each individually.
Assuming 16 adventures fund, this is a $140, 43.8% discount off of contributing to each adventure individually. If we do all 18, that's $180, a full 50% off.
34 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$235.00 Gardening Extra
As "The Extra Faithful" below but ONLY for Pembrooktonshire Gardening Society members. If you're not a member and you buy this option you'll be treated as if you bought "The Faithful" and decided to give me a tip.
Gardening Society members get a $35 discount here.
If 8 adventures fund, you break even vs the cost of contributing to each adventure with extras individually.
Assuming 16 adventures fund, this is a $245, 51% discount over paying in to each adventure + extras individually. If 18 fund, that's $305, 56.5% off.
26 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$270.00 The Extra Faithful
As The Faithful, but also included are all the "What I would do with this" notes in a booklet with new cover art.
If 9 adventures fund, you've broken even vs the cost of contributing to each individually.
Assuming 16 adventures fund, this is a $210, 43.8% discount off of contributing to each adventure individually. If we do all 18, that's $270, a full 50% off.
23 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
The following are priced based on the assumptions that 16 adventures will fund. I pretty much have to do that because the cost of top-notch printing and binding for print runs of one or two dozen hardcovers and slipcases are astronomical and if I didn't account for that it's possible each of these Collector options would be financial killers. They are not as currently set up.
The interiors of each book will be identical to the softcovers.
$450.00 Gardening Collectors
Like "The Collecting Faithful" below, but ONLY for Pembrooktonshire Gardening Society members. If you're not a member and you buy this option you'll be considered to have bought The Faithful three times.
Gardening Society members get a $50 discount here.
14 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.
$500.00 The Collecting Faithful
As "The Faithful," but the adventures will all be in hardcover, packaged together in a sturdy exclusive slipcase with custom art. Includes the extra "What I would do with this" booklet (not hardcover or slipcased).
12 people would have to sign up at this level to fund an adventure.