Am I Asking Too Much, At $2/500 Words Article?

If people ready to pay for it - everything is good. It all depends on the quality, If you think It's good and people buy it, then don't think about it, just continue...

Hello Zoldusta. I think that you should let that person go. Even if he wanted to buy the entire 120 articles, you shouldn't budge. $2 is really low. I don't know how desperate you are to want to sell an originally written 500-600 words article for $2, but stand your ground and refuse. I think that he probably senses desperation for wanting to sell as low as $2 in the first place, and is trying to offer you even more ridiculously less.
I think you should put up your article for sale on appropriate sites. I am sure you will get better offers soon.

What anyone else thinks doesn't matter in the least. They don't know your personal situation. Perhaps you drive a Mercedes-Benz. Possibly you have a hungry child in the house.

Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. Nothing more and nothing less. Only you know the value you place on your time and level of talent or craft.

Are you selling them, once - or to as many people as will buy them? If you're selling them over and over, take what you can get and move on to the next sale. A one-off sale - wait for your desired price.

All things to consider.

$2 per article seems reasonable especially if you did some research on the articles. Your sample article did not seem to have much research, but was rather very high level. That said, you could also offer a couple articles at $1 and if they are well received, bump up the price... It will be about quality. I can get a 1000 words on Fiverr for $5 with some research so you are in the ballpark. On Fiverr however, I do get some "feedback" from the folks who worked with the writer - that you don't have yet!

Just an opinion here ...


I understand you're needing money now, but in all honesty, $1/article is not how I would show the world I value my time. How long did it take you to come up with the information and write an original article? 1/2 hour? 15 minutes? Even at 10 minutes per article, that gives you a whopping $6 per hour without even considering the time it takes to market your articles, deliver them, etc.


You're probably not going to be able to sell all 120 articles quickly to one single buyer so I think your hope for fast cash is a stretch, especially given the articles are not in one niche.


Have you considered targeting and modifying these articles slightly to specific long tail phrases, adding affiliate links, and publishing them on your own blogs that you mentioned? I would think that would raise more money for you faster than trying to sell the articles by themselves - and you get the added bonus of profiting yourself over and over in addition to adding content to your blogs.


Steve

Not trying to be funny at all Z; but this is not a joke, right buddy?

Charge $60-$100 per 500 word article. Then, to find clients who'd pay those rates, comment on top blogs in your niche and befriend top bloggers in the niche. You are hanging with bottom feeders. Time to move up to the penthouse.

Ryan

yes, i am selling them once with full copyrights.

Tell him to meet in the middle and sell them for $1.50 or $1.75 per article. A bird in hand is better than three in the bush.

$2 is a low price. That said, $1 is impossibly low. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would pay at least $5 per article. Keep on looking!

Depends your experience, how native and creative you are.

First, you can put random words/sentences together and 'pass' Copyscape - that service is meant to identify 'copies' and has nothing to do with quality.

You 'contacted someone' - only one person? Why not contact many site owners or advertise the articles for sale in a sig on this forum, etc? That person told you what the article are worth to HIM. If it's not enough, contact more potential buyers.

The sample you posted is...OK....no real information and clearly English as second language writing. Except for sentence structure and punctuation there is nothing terribly 'wrong' - but there's nothing interesting either.

You may not mind if the writing is worth the price - but that's what any buyer is looking at. Your need for money is not the buyer's concern.

I see members posting above telling you to charge more - and critiquing the buyer's offer. I don't see them offering to pay you $240 for the articles.... Even at $1, that 'buyer' only want 30 articles - you don't have any leverage with him.

If you had the time I would suggest selling these as "PLR packs" but that would require paying for an ad and waiting for sales. You need to contact a lot of site owners trying to sell the articles or pay for an ad and hope for buyers.

$2 is very low, but quality also plays a role. Personally I wouldn't bother working with that person.

LOL - you do realize that 'person' is probably only trying to help out...the OP approached HIM...not vice versa.

That about the going price for a 500 words article on the market nowadays. Why not sign up as a vendor on platforms like Fiverr or seoclerk? How could i get to buy some of your articles? However since you need the money you should calculate the opportunity cost of selling 30 articles at $1 ($30) for the original amount of $60. If these articles are well written and took a lot of your time, i do not see why you should "give it away" for that price!
Also if you are desperate why not tell him if he want it for the $1 price he will have to buy everything?

If you are asking $2 for some 550 words article, thats $0.004 per word, which is very cheap, not counting the research you have to do before writing that article, proof reading for mistakes and the total time you will spend trying to improve the text. If you are not a famous writer with average writing skills, I say go for it and see how it works for you. After a week, you can reduce it to $1 if you are not happy with the results and see if you can attract more customers.

You are so cheap.
Raise your price, because people get 1$ for only 100 words, not per full article.