Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-116.193.72.42-20121208024156/@comment-53539-20121208104357

The cost of shipping overseas to other countries is expensive, thus it adds to the price. Its their postal service thats the problem. Sometimes the producers do release the music themselves on Nico nico douga or other sites like Piapro, and its wroth stalking producers to see what they do. But generally as well, the producers are spending money on vocaloid, its not cheap to make songs especially if its legitly bought. They need to make money back, which means the shipping cost is sadly a burden they have to deal with.

A vocaloid costs $130 approx, decent equiptment to go along side it costs more $100's in money, software, computer, etc even more. Its not uncommn for a producer to have to fork out several thosuand $'s worth of stuff to set up, even if they are a joint group they still have to find money between them, if your a young amataur musicain thats still not a easy task. So yeah, as expensive as it is, a little respect is needed to be given as it isn't easy. All in all I spent about £400 (UK ponunds, sorry, I can only work it out in that currency) on vocaloids (Big Al, Sonika, Tonio, Prima) and a further £100+ on software, so I spent over £500 on setting up vocaloid myself. I can respect the $20 bill... :-/