What extras would you pay for?
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:34 am
Hey, all.
As always, I'm thinking about how we can make money for the site to keep it open. Right now, we rely on BT+ and Advertisers. That's fine. We're not at any risk of closing shop.
But I'd love it if we could offer MORE. Maybe some color options (maybe you don't want to be stuck with blue and white?), better hosting or more server space, etc. Those things take money, though. We don't really have a sh*tload to spare for upgrades.
That's where you come in.
Bartertown is free for basic Users and it always will be (Note: We were saying that LONG before Facebook was!).
Nobody will be REQUIRED to pay to use the site.
Are there frills you'd be willing to shell over cash for?
Custom titles?
@Bartertown Email addresses?
The ability to attach more than just pics to PMs?
a greater posting frequency by having the ability to delete your own ads (or have us delete them for you) to restart your "countdown clock" until you can post again?
Anything else?
If there are such frills, I'm wondering what they're worth to you.
Obviously, if there's something within our ability, and enough people want it, we'd implement it for an cheaply as possible. Maybe a donation of a buck or two or something. So, if a bunch of people say, "I'd pay $5 for a custom Title," well, we might just be able to do that... but far more cheaply. I mean, the main issue we're likely to run into is time. It will take staff (mostly us Admin) TIME to do any of these things you're requesting.
We already donate our time to the site freely, however, so it's not a huge change there. : )
Thanks for your input, guys. We appreciate it.
Eric
As always, I'm thinking about how we can make money for the site to keep it open. Right now, we rely on BT+ and Advertisers. That's fine. We're not at any risk of closing shop.
But I'd love it if we could offer MORE. Maybe some color options (maybe you don't want to be stuck with blue and white?), better hosting or more server space, etc. Those things take money, though. We don't really have a sh*tload to spare for upgrades.
That's where you come in.
Bartertown is free for basic Users and it always will be (Note: We were saying that LONG before Facebook was!).
Nobody will be REQUIRED to pay to use the site.
Are there frills you'd be willing to shell over cash for?
Custom titles?
@Bartertown Email addresses?
The ability to attach more than just pics to PMs?
a greater posting frequency by having the ability to delete your own ads (or have us delete them for you) to restart your "countdown clock" until you can post again?
Anything else?
If there are such frills, I'm wondering what they're worth to you.
Obviously, if there's something within our ability, and enough people want it, we'd implement it for an cheaply as possible. Maybe a donation of a buck or two or something. So, if a bunch of people say, "I'd pay $5 for a custom Title," well, we might just be able to do that... but far more cheaply. I mean, the main issue we're likely to run into is time. It will take staff (mostly us Admin) TIME to do any of these things you're requesting.
We already donate our time to the site freely, however, so it's not a huge change there. : )
Thanks for your input, guys. We appreciate it.
Eric