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I went to buy it and first it said the price was 140 NOK, but after I add it to cart and sign in to my existing Udemy account it wanted to charge me 165 NOK.

That’s not a huge difference, and I know these things are beyond your control. But that’s the sort of thing that makes me decide not to buy.

I wish Udemy weren’t so weird about their prices. Change the price and make it more expensive because I log in. No thanks, Udemy.

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If I remember correctly, course publishers only get a significant amount of money if people buy them through their links and virtually nothing if they discovered them through the platform.

Edit: Here's the revenue share page: https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...

This weird revenue share model along with the "This is 96% off, only today, even though it's never been sold for the stated original price" dance is why I will avoid Udemy at every chance I get.

Is it possible to get this course in any other way?

Yes, that's a good question about Udemy's policies. I was also surprised it's got on massive sale right after publishing, lol. I'll consider publishing it on other platforms as well. Do you have good recommendations?

Yeah, this is something I completely agree about Udemy's policies. Alas, as you say, I unfortunately don't have any control over their price changes.

What are your reasons for publishing on Udemy? It appears to me like the down sides vastly outweigh the advantages.

It's actually a good question. Udemy was just easy to setup, and with no subscription monthly fee. I'm considering cross-publishing it on other platforms as well. I'll be OK in general with monthly fees for publishers once I have several courses. Do you have suggestions for better platforms?

You do.You can opt out from those massive price drops,where all thr courses become 9.99 or so. Whether it will work or not, I'll leave it for your marketing strategy to decide.

Good point, I should take a look if it's easy to just opt-out. I'd be OK with these discounts in general, though they look really weird -- the course was just published, and is already "on (massive) sale" :)

Interesting.. I clearly remember the opt-out checkboxes when I was creating the course, but I don't see them anymore neither in the course, nor in profile settings. I can only change the price, but not to opt-out from the price drops. Will clarify with Udemy support.

"Udemy weren’t so weird about their prices" I am huge Udemy fanboy (tool). Just wait. Just sit there and wait for the price to drop to $9.99. That is what Udemy is training their customer base to do.

Current price is 10.99usd for the next 4 hours.

Edit: Logged in and the price bumped to 12.99usd.

Now available on Teachable as well: https://dmitrysoshnikov.teachable.com/p/essentials-of-garbag...

Consider yourself lucky. It shows 114,99 EUR price to me.

Had the same - try incognito mode of your browser. I guess referral link or smth like that is lost if you have ad or tracker blocker.

In the words of Strong Bad[0], "That is not a small number! That is a BIG number!"

[0] - https://youtu.be/La9SmiFyLFw

I'm not really interested to buy at the moment, I clicked just to see price after seeing comments on price ... and the result is : 10,99€ (114.99€ with a special -90% offer available for only 4 days)

Seems to be a lottery.

Yeah, I should probably just set the fixed price for future course (didn't know Udemy such aggressively drops the prices back and forth). Though, it'll be 114.99 for the original price, so it's great you were able to win this lottery for 10.99 :)

Are you allowed to sell outside Udemy? I appreciate they give you perks like discoverability. But can I send you cash for a zip file?

I'll see if I can just put the course on another platform with stable prices. Maybe even on vimeo or something, so it's possible to buy just individual lectures to be more flexible. Though, if you got a good price now from Udemy, this probably works too.

Available now on Teachable as well: https://dmitrysoshnikov.teachable.com/p/essentials-of-garbag...

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