Determined To Piss Off Customers, Developer Changes App’s Price 56 Times Within 3 Months

ren-stimpy Apparently the developers at ShangLan Tech have been smoking too much weed … or they simply enjoy pissing off potential customers. We can think of no other reason to explain ShangLan’s abnormal behavior when it comes to pricing their AlbumDoodle app.

Besides the fact that AlbumDoodle’s price has ranged from $2.99 to $14.99 … the crackheads at ShangLan have changed the app’s price a whopping 56 times over the course of 84 days. So basically every day and a half, some strange bug crawls up ShangLan’s ass, provoking them to submit a price change to Apple.

And the symptoms keep getting worse … in March, AlbumDoodle’s price changed 11 times … April, 21 times … through 25 days in May, a whopping 24 changes. You would think Apple would put an end to ShangLan’s abusive behavior and set some limits to price change frequency … hell, even every other day would cut down ShangLan’s crap.

When it comes to describing ShangLan Tech (or other devs who cheat the pricing system in order to gain visibility for their apps), only one word comes to mind – iDiots!

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(price history via AppShopper)

May 27, 2010 | Filed Under News 

Comments

  • James Stock

    Actually, there are a few reasons to change your price this frequently. 1, it triggers the app being listed in all of the Price Drop feeds. 2, it lets the devs monitor sales compared to price. 3, With my app, I found I would have more sales if I dropped it from $4.99 to $2.99, than if I went from $1.99 to $0.99. That's right, more sales at the higher price. The app store is weird, and sometimes you need to do these weird tests in order to learn a little about the market.

  • agreed James … we have no problem with dev's trying to figure out
    Apple's vague system & determine the ideal price point … but in this
    case, changing the price every few hours is whack … these devs are
    clearly trying to gain extra visibility in the Price Drop feed you
    mention.

  • agreed James … we have no problem with dev's trying to figure out
    Apple's vague system & determine the ideal price point … but in this
    case, changing the price every few hours is whack … these devs are
    clearly trying to gain extra visibility in the Price Drop feed you
    mention.