1. ok so i crunched some numbers.
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3. the best zem offers currently available (including the valentine's day special offers and zpt premium promotion) are the premium deals @ 0.045 and 0.046 chf/zem each. (im using swiss francs so the prices might be different for u). avg zem price is 0.065 chf/zem excluding promotions and 0.06 including them.
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5. now i looked thru my emails n found a few times i bought zems so i could track this over time. its not very good bc i havent had a spreadsheet for more than 2 hours but its worth it for the data. i have emails from november 2022 and december 2023. i did a bit more math and estimate that in 2022 the zem price was 0.062/zem, in 2023 it was 0.058.
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7. so the trend that we have is that the zem price isnt going up. in fact, its actually gone down if we count from 2022. so why does everyone think its going up?
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9. the answer is probably bc zem items are getting more n more expensive, so the value of the zem is falling even if the exchange rate is the same. a quick look at the creator section shows how sm of the items are overpriced. hair going for 5 zems, some dresses 8 or 9, even booty shorts sell for at least 3 or 4 zems now. what we see is inflation.
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11. so now u probably wanna know which zem offer the best is. if we exclude the zpt premium promos n other special offers, the best zem price is probably around the 125-196 area. but those are pretty darn expensive in terms of actual money, so myb its best to wait for the promo to roll around n run some numbers when it does.
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13. girl math.