Would You Buy A Good Quality WP Theme and For What Price?

Just want to get a feeling of what people are willing to pay for a high quality theme (up to the graphical level of say WP themes at templatemonster.com).

What would you be willing to pay for it?

Skinny

 

obviously more then $100 if its unique, if same theme is resold then i wont look to buy.

 

If it is detailed to suit my needs, definitely.

 

It's hard to come by quality themes that are tested with mixed content and cross browser tested.

A properly done, unique theme is worth $200+

A lot of the stuff that sells on sitepoint for around $150 ~ $180 is decent, but usually needs tweaking and hacking.

 

guerilla could you please elaborate what you mean by "tested with mixed content". I intend on testing my themes across a variety of browsers and make it valid XHTML.

I guess I'm wondering what direction to go: multiple resale of a theme or a one time sale to one person?

Skinny

 

Try testing with images and Youtube included in posts. Make a long post and make sure your background images are properly tiled to expand with the content. Post short and long demo comments.

Full test the template to be sure it will perform in a production environment.

And make sure they are widgetized, and you didn't use some bizarro menu CSS that won't work prettily with widgets.

That's assuming you want to build very high quality templates. My experience has been the better themes have less eye candy. Someone took the time to make sure the code was rock solid.

 

Thanks geurilla,

I do pride myself in ensuring that stuff not only looks good but works well so hopefully I can use your suggestions and do just that.

I was thinking in terms of direction:

Perhaps offer it first as a one time sale . . . and if someone bites then thats great and if know one does then lower the price and try to sell it multiple times.

What do you think? Good strategy?

Skinny

 

I'm not an expert on selling themes (or anything for that matter, haha) but 90% of the sales I see are for the theme with full rights to a single buyer.

If you have a lot of pride in your work, and you do a good job, keep an eye on custom jobs at Sitepoint and the more expensive themes sold there. I'm sure you could make a nice earning selling themes to an audience that will pay for quality first (no disrespect intended to the DP crowd, it's just a lower priced market here).

I'm speaking from experience. Bought too many themes without testing in multiple browsers or with varied content. Less than half of them were usable without big code fixes.