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Another update on WT: Payment methods
13 years ago
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So, as you might have guessed by virtue of the fact that I'm posting this journal, I'm looking for an alternative to PayPal. I'm well aware they're not too friendly about adult content, and while I haven't had a problem yet, I haven't had a problem...yet.
The obvious alternative would be AlertPay, but I'm going to have to do a little more research/talking with them to see what kind of account I'll need. Looking ahead, I'm estimating that I will be susceptible to some additional fees, which would work out to roughly $0.50 on each month's subscription. So I'll place the subscription price at $8.50...sound fair?
I'm also going to see about making it possible to set up an actual, monthly subscription - this could be problematic, as AlertPay's system requires you to go to THEM to unsubscribe. With that in mind, would you rather I just set up bulk purchases? That way, I could give a discount (say, a year's worth for $90, essentially a month free), and you wouldn't get roped into automatic payments. I'd set up a reminder e-mail to go out five days before the subscription ran out.
Also ads would be $12 per month.
Until I figure that out, be sure to keep donating! We're 0.3% of the way to the goal of $1,200 already (YAY WOOHOO uh. Welp.)
The obvious alternative would be AlertPay, but I'm going to have to do a little more research/talking with them to see what kind of account I'll need. Looking ahead, I'm estimating that I will be susceptible to some additional fees, which would work out to roughly $0.50 on each month's subscription. So I'll place the subscription price at $8.50...sound fair?
I'm also going to see about making it possible to set up an actual, monthly subscription - this could be problematic, as AlertPay's system requires you to go to THEM to unsubscribe. With that in mind, would you rather I just set up bulk purchases? That way, I could give a discount (say, a year's worth for $90, essentially a month free), and you wouldn't get roped into automatic payments. I'd set up a reminder e-mail to go out five days before the subscription ran out.
Also ads would be $12 per month.
Until I figure that out, be sure to keep donating! We're 0.3% of the way to the goal of $1,200 already (YAY WOOHOO uh. Welp.)
also two things,
one i would round it up to 9 a month, because people like even numbers generally.
two i kept meaning to post this but if here is an idea for subscriber features. to attract non artist subscribers, i think that subscribers should be able to ignore the room cap and join anyway. so if the room has 20/20 people, a subscriber would be able to join and make it 21/20, but then a non subscriber would have to wait until two people left (so 19/20) to join the room.
just a couple ideas
I'm afraid $9 may be pushing the limit of what I can expect people to shell out month after month. I'd round down to $8 if I had to, and make a year's worth $85, but that's cutting my budget dangerously close to the bottom of what I'd like it to be. I might as well mention that the basis for my pricing (besides being nicely in the ballpark of what people suggested in the last journal) is that I'm counting on at least one subscriber per 60GB of bandwidth, and I'm hoping to get 30 subscribers per month to begin with. That doesn't cover the entire cost, and I doubt it'll ever turn a profit, but any less than that and I get real worried about where the rest of the money is coming from.
Sorry to bore you with my arbitrary economic model, but I wanted to mention it at some point.
I have no experience with Alertpay, but i will do some research to assist if i can.
I think $8.50 will do well.
Don't cut it any shorter than you absolutely have to.
As to selling myself out of the market, I don't plan to. $8 is skin-of-the-teeth low, as far as recovering a majority of expenses goes. I also know that $10/month is asking a lot for the kinds of features that are making the cut. Thus my choice of $8.50.