Hey.
Recently I have been looking for a logo for a friend's website project, which is meant to be a hobby and nothing professional.
I have found in deviant art a design for a logo which is pretty much what my friend want. The image is the following: https://www.deviantart.com/lendbrand/art/Phoneix-Logo-Design-712792824

My question is regarding that logo. The page says that the "license" or to "own" the logo myself, I should pay 100 coins or whatever. That seems right. Once I pay for it -- do I own the image, for my own use?
Secondly: is that image 100% editable? Edit its size, add a text next to the logo, and in plain: do whatever I want with that image? Does this mean that if I were to pay for it, I can ask here for help to customize some font text next to the logo without a problem?

Also: why is it so cheap? People told me here in d2jsp that a quality logo should never go less than around 6k fg (we can translate this into 60$), and the logo i provided you from deviant art is just $1. Why?
Is this logo's quality low?

I have no idea about designing, that's why I ask for your opinion and your help. I am really lost in in this aspect, and I wouldn't like to make a big mistake by looking in this page, or buying what I shouldn't.
Thank you.

Nope, it is said in forum rules that you cannot post asking for help of devinantart. Thats why i thought someone here would know how it works to avoid a support ticket.

You can't expect JSP prices to be 1:1 with sellers like this for a few different reasons.
For one, it's all based on demand and supply, two years ago when there were more people doing work in the gfx section prices were lower. Plus it's not a job to them, so people can afford to be picky with what they work on.
Secondly, the process is also much more personalized, because usually when you work with someone they'll ask for adjustments, try this different font, that one, make the logo a bit more like that, etc. Whereas here you're buying a logo that's already made, no adjustments possible.
I also just checked the guy's profile and as I suspected he's living in India, where $1 can go much further than in Europe or the US where most jspers live. He might actually be able to make a living off pumping out lots of logos and selling them so cheap, but it wouldn't be possible somewhere else.
Lastly, and this one's pretty important, I wouldn't be surprised to hear he sells the same logo multiple times to multiple people on different sites.

With that said, I don't think the logo looks particularly low quality, but you should definitely PM the guy to have his written word on exactly what kind of licence you're buying with this, to have his guarantee he won't sell the logo to someone else, etc.

Edit: Oh and of course no matter how versatile FG may be it's still not worth as much as hard cash to most people so that raises prices too.

This post was edited by annexusquam on Oct 13 2018 02:56am

Good two points, I did not really fell into that. Correct, he sells the logos multiple times, even tho I would be free to use it in my website, maybe other little company from any part of the world has such logo as well. It wouldn't be unique for myself.
And yeah, I understand about India and Europe/US. Even tho people usually say that "Indian programmers, or India designers" are not "good enough", I disagree. But yeah the money impact is such big that can surprise us.

Thanks for answering though!

If its serious business/company, you will get in trouble with copyright, same as all those 'logo generators' or logos from 'fiver' for 5$ lul.