Goofy Prices for Mods

[thetrusteeco]

I know its been mentioned before, but I didn't realize how goofy the prices for HB mods were until I logged in to see what one cost.  Check out this screen shoot.  What could possibly make the cPanel mod worth 1 cent more than the OnApp mod, and the EnomSSL mod worth 1 cent less?

[Patrick]

I'm wondering if it's possibly a poor currency conversion?   I noticed this awhile back too.. a module being $199.01

I can't figure out the $0.01 - Not even sure KBKP does either.

[thetrusteeco]

Yeah I thought it was currency conversion too, until I noticed the pattern.  Seems too artificial to be random conversion.

[Paul]

hahaha you want to know what this is? you know in excel, say you import a list as a csv... and you have values, and you just drag the column down, instead of it duplicating the value, it makes it incremental... so he screwed up when he tried to just set the arbitrary value and duplicate it in his excel csv, and was too lazy to fix the random dollar amount, caus after all, it's completely arbitrary.

[Patrick]

hahaha you want to know what this is? you know in excel, say you import a list as a csv... and you have values, and you just drag the column down, instead of it duplicating the value, it makes it incremental... so he screwed up when he tried to just set the arbitrary value and duplicate it in his excel csv, and was too lazy to fix the random dollar amount, caus after all, it's completely arbitrary.

Makes sense honestly.  Probably just hits x2 each time he changes pricing in excel.

[tallship]

Yeah i think Paul is spot on with that one

[Lawrence]

Makes sense honestly.  Probably just hits x2 each time he changes pricing in excel.

LOL!

Yeah, that needed a traditional LOL. I'll hold back any comments on this one.

[nibb]

Or maybe its on purpose to identify which price belongs to which product.

I did this before when I had products that had the similar price, it was a bit confusing in accounting or for fast identification. So if you change the price a bit you know to which product or service it belongs, since they can´t be the same number.

For example if all your domains cost 25$ just by looking at prices and invoices you would not know to which one each invoice belongs. Sorting emails, finances, etc, they are all the same.

Now, if I do 25$ .com, 24.99$ .net, .org 25.01$

You can know just by looking at the orders columns which product each number belongs without even having to open the invoice or clicking it, same is true if you look this in your merchant account, bank, paypal, etc.

This could be a reason. I don´t say this is the case here, but if you have allot of orders, like 100 x 25$ orders, it can make a huge difference to make them a bit different on the prices for identification. Sometimes you need to match an order to an invoice and product, and this makes it faster because its a visual clue.

[Patrick]

Or maybe its on purpose to identify which price belongs to which product.

I did this before when I had products that had the similar price, it was a bit confusing in accounting or for fast identification. So if you change the price a bit you know to which product or service it belongs, since they can´t be the same number.

For example if all your domains cost 25$ just by looking at prices and invoices you would not know to which one each invoice belongs. Sorting emails, finances, etc, they are all the same.

Now, if I do 25$ .com, 24.99$ .net, .org 25.01$

You can know just by looking at the orders columns which product each number belongs without even having to open the invoice or clicking it, same is true if you look this in your merchant account, bank, paypal, etc.

This could be a reason. I don´t say this is the case here, but if you have allot of orders, like 100 x 25$ orders, it can make a huge difference to make them a bit different on the prices for identification. Sometimes you need to match an order to an invoice and product, and this makes it faster because its a visual clue.

Changing the pricing doesn't assist with 100 orders.  There is a process involved in all modern day businesses.  Invoice # followed by order #.  The two coincide for many reasons including audit purposes.   This is a poor practice of i identifying products as each product/service usually comes with an external/internal identification # of sorts.  For example: model #'s, Rack #'s, server id #, floor #.  Adjusting prices ever so differently only confuses staff and customers since it is nothing but very odd unless it's a sale price with a percentage taken off.

Never ever should a company identify a product/service they sell by it's pricing.  Now what i'm saying is based off of phone calls/live chat.  There is no need for this method via Hostbill as it's all order based and automated process, so the only thing this would confuse is an accountant and the reasoning behind it during tax season.