Unique licence

I was thinking about this idea for quite some time. With Regular Licence and Extended Licence, we should definitely have Unique Licence!

Let me elaborate:

Unique Licence would be aproximately 30 times higher from original price. So, if the project is $30 regular licence, $300 extended, unique price would be $900. We could discuss about these rates, it’s not explicit.

After a client buys Unique Licence, it would then be deleted from the marketplace, and the client owns unique piece of work.

There has been, as we could notice, demand for this option, especially in Themeforest, but could be also very useful for VideoHive, AudioJungle, etc.

And the author could have the option for each file to choose if he/she wants to have this option.

What do you think?

- EFEKT

There might be a market for this, especially for iconic graphics (mascottes etc) on Graphicriver..

The rate would have to be quite high, though – 30 times the original prize seems rather low. And I agree that you should be able to opt individual files in or out, if this were in place.

Regarding files being deleted.. I don’t think earlier costumers would very much like that – perhaps a better alternative would be to disable where it now says ‘Purchase’ and instead mark it as uniquely purchased (perhaps on the thumbnail as well).

Now that I mention it.. earlier customers. Doesn’t that ruin the value of a unique license? I mean, if there have been 50 customers before you, you can hardly call the ‘unique license’ unique, can you?

I kinda like your idea, but realistically it would only work on PSDs.

For example, a WP theme is roughly $35, and can easily break 500 sales in the first month, so 500×35 = $17,5000 (excluding Envato’s cut). Why would an author want to remove the item from the marketplace for just 30 times the item price?

The item would need to be so unique that there would be incentive to purchase a unique license, like a PSD , but not a PHP script as these can be easily reproduced as it comes down to logic.

The item would need to have personality to it that only the author would be able to reproduce. Fair enough WP themes are the same, but the unique price would need to be closer to 1000 times the price. (I’m not a Themeforest author – I’m simply working out basic maths)

I was thinking about this earlier too. I think it might be a great idea.

But what happens if you don’t sell your file in a long, long time. I guess there should be option to set licences to every item separately, so if you don’t sell it for some time you can still set it back to regular licence.

ThemeForest sells allot more files than VideoHive so that would probably work better there.

I guess we should hear buyers opinion on this one.

As I said, we could discuss about rates. I agree, 30 times is low.

And I said, the author could choose if he wants the item to have it unique, because, someone can make more without being unique.

Thinking about it from a buyers perspective would be a good idea.

Personally, if I wanted a completely unique item. I would find an author who has a style I like and contact them through their profile for freelance work, and get it 100% custom and unique for myself. After all, everyone has a check box to say ‘Available for freelance’

phpdude said
Thinking about it from a buyers perspective would be a good idea. Personally, if I wanted a completely unique item. I would find an author who has a style I like and contact them through their profile for freelance work, and get it 100% custom and unique for myself. After all, everyone has a check box to say ‘Available for freelance’

Yes, but there is a huge difference between freelance and envato marketplace.

It’s not gonna happen Sorry!

crozer said
It’s not gonna happen Sorry!

Why do you think that?

I dont like it. The goal I (we) am looking for is something like the snowball effect. The more items you create the more income it generates in time. Imagine I have a portfolio of 10 items and they get all bought and deleted in one month. What am I doing the next month considering I am fulltime author? I want to gurantee myself steady and certain income and not the other way around. Giving the clients / authors the power to remove other people’s work from the market certainly is not a good idea.

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