Fair price when going to be unfair: what you will do?

ajlancer Level X³

July 21, 2016, 4:19 pm

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Hi recently we got huge confusion from many seller regarding high price of service by some website.

We know some websites working as clone of SEO clerks website. As per as I know they are just working as SEO clerks service promoter website for example: seo lads, seo checkout. So, if you add any service on SEO clerks, at the same time same service will display on promoter sites. But, price is different. For instance: if you set price a service for $10, and same service will show on promoter site for $20 service. It is meaning two time high what you set as fair price on SEO clerks but promoter site will show 2 times high which is not fair.

So, here is confusion and my concern. If I sell 100 backlink for $10, it is worth to me as fair consideration. But, when buyer purchase same service for $20 from promoter website which I mentioned in above, and if buyer thinking that 100 backlink price too high and not fair price as $20 and if buyer leave negative feedback on this judgment or reject order or ask for refund, what SEO clerks will do?

Is there any suggestion, if you face this situation?

Regards by Ajlancer

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TommyCarey

TommyCarey

If they thought the price was too high they wouldn't have purchased in the first place. To me it sounds like the buyer just wanted a free service and was using a sister site as an excuse. It sounds like they purchased from the sister website and after they got their report they realized that there was this marketplace called SeoClerks that offered the same service for half the price.

It's all marketing. People who own the sister sites are trying to make money just like you are. They pay for the promotion of those websites and in turn get a cut of the profits if they make a sale. It's more like a reseller service except they don't have to manage the orders or be a middle man. I guess you can call those websites "super affiliate reseller websites" because their only job is to build a traffic stream to the websites and get sign ups and sales.

There are thousands of people who put up their own websites and resell services, it's been done for years. I do it with plenty of my own websites, I'll put up a service and market it, when I get a sale I'll outsource it to the people I got the idea from. When the company I outsourced to is finished they will send me a report and then I send it to my client. I'll only work with companies that give me reports that I can white label myself. I even use third party services on my websites that allow me to white label audit reports

This type of business model is pretty awesome because you only pay for something after you make a sale. As for the sister sites, that's normal as well since it's like a super affiliate reseller.

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Lynne

Lynne

Razzy I see your point for sure. But double the price?

If I was new to SEO work and didn't know what was a market related price and purchased from a cloned site and then found SeoClerks I would be upset. It would seem to me to be a little dishonest, that's just the way I would feel. Like I had been conned.

People buying and reselling has been going on for ages yes, I agree and there is nothing wrong with this in principle. It is more the fact that the price is literally double that I have an issue with. Each person adds on their little bit when reselling yes... but double??

Ok so I haven't bought from a cloned site so it is not a problem for me....

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TommyCarey

TommyCarey

The price of SEO in a Pay Per Click platform is ridiculous right now. So even though the price per sale is twice what it is on SeoClerks, the owner of the sister site may be making 5% to 10% of that sale since they put so much into advertising. If they were to rely on just an affiliate commission of 10% and that's the cap, then they would never make enough to stay afloat. Sure their are some services that the user will pay $1 to $5 to promote and profit $20 to $30, but it doesn't happen often.

I have my SEO and Online Marketing companies website on adwords and bing/yahoo advertising and I pay upwards of $2.00 per click. I might spend $50 to $500 to get a client to sign up. Most of the time I don't make any money on the first month of my client being signed up, and that sucks. I do a lot of my own work as well, if I outsourced it I would have to increase my prices just to break even. Sure I outsource some stuff, but the meat and potatoes of my work I do myself.

So when you see one of these sister websites and the prices are doubled, you need to understand that the owners of that website are spending a lot of money in order to bring in a sale and sometimes don't break even after doing so. They run a business just like everyone else and if they want to increase their prices 500% then they can if they want to.

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Lynne

Lynne

Oh yes I totally agree with you that these are people trying to make money and that they put lots of work and money in, for sure.

But that wouldn't change how I would feel if I bought something on SEOClerks and then a week later found SeoClerks and realized I had paid double.... I would just feel like I had been conned thats all.

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ajlancer

ajlancer

Hi Razzy firstly I would like to thank you for reply. I understand what are you tried to explain. And I just want to say my stand not against clone site or as your said sister site. I know that promoter website help to increase sell and any way they will not take responsibility as excuse selling high price. Because buyer has open choose right! And he purchased each service after justify with existing price on those sites. But, problem is most of the new buyer does not know about main site like SEO clerks and after purchase, when they see real price as half of what he purchased currently and in this consideration, if buyer leave negative feedback to seller for high price or reject order, or ask for refund, who will take responsibility if this type of situation will come to seller? You may agree, ultimately seller will loser. if that happen. What is your suggestion?

Regards by Ajlancer

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ajlancer

ajlancer

Hi Razzy I forgot to said another things, you said there has thousand of affiliate people put up their own website and resell the service. And as I understand this paragraph, I would like to say affiliate sale or resell service method are not same as what I mentioned in my earlier post. Those website just promote SEO clerks services and that should be high price as double. And they are not promoting as like affiliate but the reseller. They took extra charge and earn huge money. Again I want to say my stand is not against them. But problem is high price and sometimes, it is going to be unfair to purchaser who specially new.

Regards by Ajlancer

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TommyCarey

TommyCarey

Hey ajlancer,

I see your point of view. If the buyer purchases from you on one website, finds it on another website for cheaper, rejects your order and purchases on the other website, that's kind of messed up. It's hard to find all of these websites and link them together, but if in the random chance that someone does, they should cancel the order and re-order immediately from you. If they decide to leave you a negative review because they found your service for twice the amount on a different website, then they don't know what they're doing in the first place and shouldn't have purchased. I'm saying this because they did not need to leave a negative review since they could have just contacted the seller and ask them why the service is twice as much on example.com I'm sure the seller would help out the buyer with the new purchase and no negative feedback would be in order.

A down side to this is that people always think they're getting scammed online and if they see a price for twice as much on one site and land on SeoClerks, they'll think they are of course getting scammed. I've ran plenty of websites where I was the middle man and resold services and I've had some problems where people would say something along the lines of "I can pay cheaper somewhere else" and I respond with "Ok, go for it." they then do two things, they'll stop talking to me or sign up.

You shouldn't be getting any negative feedback from the sales on the sister sites. If you happen to randomly get one, it's probably not because of the price they paid.

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ajlancer

ajlancer

Hi Razzy again thank you for reply. And I also understand your point of view too. It is very easy to find out by buyer to other site like SEO clerks has price half percent rather than clone. Because, many seller convey other service advertise in the report. So, if buyer see the same service with high price on clone site, they should ask to the seller for all potential cause, which I said in previous message. But, everything up to buyer. You said buyer should reject order, once they know price in low and immediately they get back to you again. But, if buyer know after getting report and if they reject order and I am sure he will not back again for purchase same service again. If he dishonest.
So, everything is potentiality.

Regards by Ajlancer

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