I just tried it out and no, they host it. You upload a file, set a price and then when the payment is made the customer is given a download link (with a 5 download limit).
Pretty much all of the digital goods sales platforms work this way. This is nothing new. Please don't credit them with inventing it. This technique has been around for literally a decade or more.
Sellfy hosts and delivers the file to the clients. We also provide merchants with tools for promotion and detail analytics so that they can track their sales and social network campaign impact. It's much more than a link :)
Treat your customers with respect, put a human face on the product, and remind yourself that your overhead is so small you don't need to worry about it.
ok, what if one customer is emailing me all angry and cursing he claims that another is stealing his work? which one do I respect more? and which one do I believe if both telling me "its my work".
No, it's a guy who wants to start a service LIKE this one talking about what happens as a customer support issue when somebody claims someone else is selling their IP.
That is something that really sucks with digital good selling with Paypal as the payment gateway. They get my digital goods and then chargebacks or claims a refund. I don't want to get in with irritants, so I refund them but they get the download.
I decided to skip the chargeback shenanigans by offering my customers a no-questions-asked money back policy. So far, less than 1% of my customers have asked for a refund. I suspect that those who want to get my product for free will simply torrent it rather than weasel around with chargebacks/refunds.
Well, it's less about the money and more about the irritating attitude. Yes, I just refund them and find it to be easier to deal with than anything else.
I'm sure they don't. I sell eproducts and haven't had this happen to me yet. Even if it did, I wouldn't care. There are enough honest people out there.
Interface looks nice and the innovation here is deep links into social networks.
Many of us have been selling digital files for a while. I originally came here to post how expensive 5% seemed, but after looking into it, it's not a bad deal at all.
My eproduct ( http://kidsdungeonadventure.com ) sells for $5.99 and I pay a flat $5/month for most of the functionality provided by Sellify. 5% of $5.99 is $0.2995. My break even point between the services is 16.7 sales per month. The other great thing about sellify is that with no other fees, you can safely run it alongside with whatever setup you currently have.
Overall, I am definitely better off with the flat rate, but the appeal of a no-cost plan is pretty enticing to newcomers.
Still, it's way better than Amazon, scribd, or other services I looked into a year ago. Glad to see some more competition in this space.
I don't think you need special plans for established sellers. Here's what would get me on board: Convince me that your social hooks can sell more for me or lower fees at various levels (ie. drop to 4% after 50 sales in a month)
Guys I from my experience I created http://indriks.com/io in 2hours using sellfy. But of course you can use other tools such as shopify or whatever but that is more complicated.
I guess English isn't your native language, which explains why the headline here is ungrammatical. You might want to just use the actual headline. Or at least delete the word "how" from your headline.
Sellfy provides a platform that is allowing for a further integration of digital content into the social networks. This is the future direction of publishing. Eventually, the models of distribution & access to information will be further changed from what we have currently known. Authors will be much more greatly empowered as will end users (the readers) who will have a greater access to information as the future is reshaped by entrepreneurs.
Incentivizing people via money discounts to share via social networks is in direct violation to their the terms of services. It's very obvious why they don't want this kind of spam and they all enforce this hard. They will be shut down.
Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have been selling digital files for years and years and years. Ever heard of Clickbank? No? Well that's because you're not doing enough research.
The moderately interesting part is the social aspect but considering how many times a person has to be exposed to a thing before they actually buy it, I doubt it will make that much of a difference.
If you're serious about selling digital goods, I'd really look into a different platform. You want something solid that's been around the block for a while, when you're talking about creating a new business based on it. You want more than a couple glossy social gimmicks.
(Note: I do NOT recommend ClickBank, for the skeeve factor. They are a totally legit, well-behaved business, but they LOOK too skeevy for YOUR customers to interact with. There are more modern, classy alternatives.)
FWIW I have sold probably around $200k of digital goods in my career so far. I know whereof I speak.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 83.1 ms ] threadTreat your customers with respect, put a human face on the product, and remind yourself that your overhead is so small you don't need to worry about it.
I decided to skip the chargeback shenanigans by offering my customers a no-questions-asked money back policy. So far, less than 1% of my customers have asked for a refund. I suspect that those who want to get my product for free will simply torrent it rather than weasel around with chargebacks/refunds.
Many of us have been selling digital files for a while. I originally came here to post how expensive 5% seemed, but after looking into it, it's not a bad deal at all.
Here's my setup: http://www.bengarvey.com/2011/04/27/my-e-commerce-stack/
My eproduct ( http://kidsdungeonadventure.com ) sells for $5.99 and I pay a flat $5/month for most of the functionality provided by Sellify. 5% of $5.99 is $0.2995. My break even point between the services is 16.7 sales per month. The other great thing about sellify is that with no other fees, you can safely run it alongside with whatever setup you currently have.
Overall, I am definitely better off with the flat rate, but the appeal of a no-cost plan is pretty enticing to newcomers.
Still, it's way better than Amazon, scribd, or other services I looked into a year ago. Glad to see some more competition in this space.
http://indriks.com/ios
I guess English isn't your native language, which explains why the headline here is ungrammatical. You might want to just use the actual headline. Or at least delete the word "how" from your headline.
The moderately interesting part is the social aspect but considering how many times a person has to be exposed to a thing before they actually buy it, I doubt it will make that much of a difference.
If you're serious about selling digital goods, I'd really look into a different platform. You want something solid that's been around the block for a while, when you're talking about creating a new business based on it. You want more than a couple glossy social gimmicks.
(Note: I do NOT recommend ClickBank, for the skeeve factor. They are a totally legit, well-behaved business, but they LOOK too skeevy for YOUR customers to interact with. There are more modern, classy alternatives.)
FWIW I have sold probably around $200k of digital goods in my career so far. I know whereof I speak.