Thread: Pricing and what is included should be transparent, not require investigation

Pricing and what is included should be transparent, not require investigation

I was debating signing up for the plan you charge $249 for, but now I have serious doubts. The app themes club, I think you call it.
Price includes 'all themes' - great but I only need one, and maybe only have a use for two.

Price includes "20+ Marketplace items" - great but to discover what these items are, one would need to manually go through the marketplace section and work out which items you say are designed by you, and which by other people. There is no other way to work this out. Sadly, most of the useful stuff is apparently designed by other people. Child themes for Job roller, for example, have all been credited as being sold by a third party. Seems that whilst your advertising says the price includes all appthemes-designed child themes, you don't actually design child themes for this theme.

I looked at the website of the person who seems to design all the jobroller child themes and at his 'showcase'. Most of the sites listed are either fakes or simply don't exist. That's not an incentive to buy a theme that will inevitably require future updates.............not when the seller appears to be a little dodgy.

That leaves the child themes you sell. And jobroller seems to be celibate; childless.

Sorry but unless I've missed something, you're selling empty boxes.

Our pricing page provides specific information relating to what is included in the AppThemes club package by way of the FAQ as well as actual links to the "20+ marketplace items" that are created by AppThemes and thus included in the club package (this is a direct link to the AppThemes seller profile which shows all of our products as opposed to all of the ones also created by other marketplace developers). The subscription period of 12 months for the purchase means that you'll be able to access all AppThemes created themes, child themes and other add ons during that time.

If your only intention is to purchase one or two themes and no other add ons created by AppThemes, then the AppThemes club package is not likely to be the best option for you, but certainly if you're looking at more like 3 themes and other add ons then it's the most economic option. Thanks.

So no child themes then?

Exactly my point; I hadn't seen the link but having clicked it I can see that it doesn't include a single child theme. I don't understand how you can say pricing includes something that doesn't exist. You may as well say it includes free first-class tickets to Jupiter. I thought maybe I was missing something but your own link reference shows I'm not.


The jobroller theme has existed for at least a year and you haven't created a single child theme for it. Or for any of your other themes, come to that.
How can you say pricing includes things you don't sell?
ALL the child themes third party and chargeable.

Flannel is a ClassiPress child theme created by AppThemes which is included, with more in development. At the end of the day, if the AppThemes Club package isn't for you and doesn't include what you're looking for, then it's not recommended you purchase it.