Linder Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Friday is here. Bump and upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Friday is here. Bump and upgrade Bravo Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthebhoy Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Well done Linder. JTB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linder Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Thanks, guys! Being here is indeed the highlight of my day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archibald Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Just as a practical note: I used to run a (political) website where people could donate either as a recurring charge or a discounted one time charge. Obviously, w/ the recurring you have members who stop using bandwidth but forget to cancel their memberships, but every month when I ran the numbers, I usually found that lost revenues and fees from attempted withdrawls from unfunded, expired or cancelled cards made the recurring charge revenue not much more, on balance, than the discounted "one time" revenue, which more people chose anyway. As surprising as it is that self interest doesn't kick in (donate the equivalent of $5 bucks a month to keep alive a site that saves you 10 times that every time you buy a watch), self interest doesn't kick in: people will generally choose to get something free even at the risk that getting it free might mean it comes to an end compltely. My .02 is that we'd loose very few contributing members and dealers with a mandatory membership fee--most serious collectors and dealers would gladly pay for the piece of mind that RWG will be around for a long time. If we loose a bunch of "who has the best..." and out posters, so much the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craytonic Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 re: membership % that pays, a few thoughts... There seems to be a core of ~250 of us that post/participate on a regular basis, these are the same people we see in the threads, same ones who pay the supporter fees. The trick is getting the people that register and never return after they get a submariner rep, or log in once a month to get their quick fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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