>I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model.

I disagree, you need to sell your business model just as much as you need to sell your product.

As a customer,

1. I need to know whether this is a fair pricing for the service, because I need to decide whether I should pay for it, or search (or wait) for an alternative. If it is overpriced, a cheaper alternative is likely to appear soon, and it is probably better to wait.

2. I want don't want to encourage business models that don't fit my usage, to avoid the proliferation of such business models across the industry.

I partly agree, as an author it is your software and your choice. Demanding anything (unless one has an existing relationship as a customer that warrants it) is probably a sign of feeling entitled.

Also these days I expect software to need security fixes for the lifetime of the software which is why I am somewhat less hostile to subscriptions than I would otherwise be.

But I also partly understand very well what the users upthread writes, so let me try to explain:

> I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking.

Fine, go right ahead. Consider the posts upthread as an explanation for why they wont use your software and will recommend against it.

If people still buys it: Power to you. And, I should say, it looks like something that certain people will pay for

> Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you?

Maybe they shouldn't care to write it, but at least now you know their reasoning.

"Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you?"

Because I am a human with feelings, and if I _feel_ I'm getting screwed, you can prove to me all day long how I'm actually saving money, it won't matter because I'll find something else where I feel treated right (not that that's that easy these days).

Price and in particular an on going cost factors into the value a product provides. Positioning in the market via pricing and other factors are as much part of selling your product as making sure people know what it does. Customers will have an opinion on it and it will be something worthwhile to understand in the large. Further if the pricing raises eyebrows customers will want a justification to feel good about buying.