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Ask HN: Am I the only one thinking that CodeCanyon's rates are unfair?
1 point by thibaultj on Sept 21, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I never used CodeCanyon before, so I was browsing their site, and looked at their payment rates.

http://codecanyon.net/make_money/payment_rates

They take 50% of each sale if you are an exclusive author (but they lower this rate as your sale volume increases) and 67% for non-exclusives author.

I always thought that Google and Apple market's rates were high (30% of each app sale, if I remember correctly), but they did a huge work builting an entire ecosystem of mobile devices, so that sounds fair to me.

But 67%! It's really bugging me. What service do they provide is worth so much? Does anybody already used CodeCanyon successfuly?



It was much higher before, starting at 75%.


It's not really a good excuse, is it?




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