@reshampanth – First I appreciate the feedback. But we are not out to get rich, just to run a sustainable business. Yes other plugins give it away, but we offer much more as a total package value. Our exit intent may be $45 but it will over deliver on the value when coupled with all the other power Popup Maker offers.
I will also add that we don’t see others as competition, in fact I often troll their forums and answer support topics, or ask bad reviewers to reconsider based on lack of attempts to get support etc. That said they all monetize some facet or feature, for Popup Maker (used to be called Easy Modal) Exit Intent has always been a paid only feature, likely always will or I wouldn’t be able to continue to provide support & updates full time as it constitutes a substantial portion of my income.
Can you create it yourself, absolutely, Popup Maker is open source, its quite easy to extend and even add custom triggers using our JS methods, and there are ample scripts out there showing how exit intent is done.
That said, you will have to customize it for each popup separately, more popups more code. And you don’t get features we offer that nobody else does not even our more expensive competitors (false positive detection, hard exit messages, and soon a mobile option for exit intent which is something nobody else has tackled). $45 is nothing if your going to gain 3-5x the subscribers and your site relies on them to make money which is our ideal customer obviously.
I will also add that there are solutions out there that cost thousands a month for the same thing so price is not as relevant as “Actual” & “Perceived” Value.
Just to clarify we are not every other free plugin, which you can hopefully tell once you used ours and theirs, as well as looking at our reviews. We give away 90% of the functionality, but we have to make money somehow.
Hope that helps. Just understand that we want to be here long into the future still adding value, we don’t want it to go dead because we have to go get 9-5 jobs :).
