[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

For example if your selling a car, you check the autotrader first to see what others are selling the same car for with same condition and millage. In other words prices are dictated by the overall going rate. Seeing as you can buy top class skins for ?25, I have to agree that $500 (?400) is rather expensive just for a skin when you concider the going average rate for the best skins out there is around ?75 pounds. So my question would be.

If I see a skin for ?75 that looks just as good as one for ?400. What makes that skin worth ?325 extra. Because skins that cost ?75 still can offer a back-up service just the same as a ?400 skin.

When you pay for a custom skin you not only pay for the skin itself but for the ownership of the skin itself. Yes you can find "top class" skins for ?25 but when you purchase a skin like that from vBStyles or ExtremePixels you only get the rights to use it as does anyone else who wants to use that skin. The main selling point of a custom skin is that it's truely custom as you own the full rights to use and distribute it.