$5 tracks on Pond5...

$5 tracks ruined the marketplace for most authors over at AJ... guess Pond5 figured their huge rate increase wasn't enough, now they wanna flood anybody actually trying to make a decent side gig out of this with people who are willing to sell music for... bragging rights I guess? You can't make any money at $5 a track.

Nor will they see a penny until they reach a minimum of 25 dollars for a payout on the 15th of the month.

Very sad. I wish people/newcomers would understand that undercutting each other doesn't help anyone.

I understand how it can be tempting in these hard times, but someone once told (and taught!) me 'If you don't value your music for what it's worth, why should others'. I stick by that. I'd rather have no sales than under-pricing them and basically say 'here you go, it's bad anyway'.

My experience has been a bit different. I've found that plenty of buyers are willing to pay more than $5 for material they really want to use. On the other hand, I have quite a few items that, for whatever reason, never sold. A lot of them are from when I first started here and the sound quality wasn't as good.

So I've put some of these items into a $5 bin specifically targeted at people on a tight budget. Better that some items sell for $5 than never sell at all. And it doesn't seem to have hurt the higher priced items in my portfolio.

Just trying to take lemons and make lemonade.

B~)

Sound logic for sure.