that defeats the purpose. Paying before approval could end up causing grief on the paypal end. If you want some sort of qualifier before being allowed to be reviewed, do something like you need 100 posts to even step foot into BST as a seller.
You Bitched, We Listened. Sorta.
- Thread starter Jon
- Start date
that defeats the purpose. Paying before approval could end up causing grief on the paypal end. If you want some sort of qualifier before being allowed to be reviewed, do something like you need 100 posts to even step foot into BST as a seller.
This is 4,000 / 8,000 words of content at high-end market rates, which would take many providers a few hours of work, perhaps even a day or two depending on the amount of research required.
$100 per thread is very steep, especially when many of us have a high level of trust already existing here.
Not really, it's just $100. If they have a god service you can make that back in a day easy. If they can't afford $100 then they're doing something wrong and shouldn't be posting their shit service in there to begin with.
I disagree entirely. There are many highly rated content providers that offer rates like $1/100 words. I'd like to see you bust out 10,000 words of content that meets the research / copyscape / editing / grammar guidelines that many of the buyers on this forum expect in "a day, easy".
The same can be said for other services like bookmarking or blog commenting. Many of the service-buying members here expect services like this to be very cheap thanks to the huge boost in service providers from countries like India. Why make someone do 10, 20 or even more orders basically for free just to get their thread posted? That's a little absurd.
$40 or $50 per thread is just fine. If the provider sucks, they are going to suffer negative reviews in the thread that they paid for, and their thread will sink. It's enough of a cost hurdle that these fly-by-night providers will think twice about posting, and prohibitive enough to prevent multiple thread spam with the same provider selling the same service through multiple accounts.
THIS!
Jon deserves to make money and I don't mind paying whatever he decides to charge but I obviously want to keep my thread (I'm sure Red Virus and the other established service providers will agree).
So raise prices? I don't know. All I know is I am sick of looking at shit all over the place in there. I hardly ever use BST anymore because it is an endless sea of dog shit and I don't a few bucks is enough to curb the flow of trash. Anyway, they just set the price to $36 to start a new thread, you can check it as it is now live. Will be interesting to see if $36 is enough to make a difference.
+1
Charge people to have links in there sigs and they can only point into the site and not out ward. I found that to be best for traffic retention.
So where do we go to pay as some of our threads have already been closed with no explanation?
Yeah, how can those of us who want to keep our old threads (I'm pretty sure all of the "old timers" want to keep their threads) pay for 'em?
There is a sticky here. It looks like if you click the "New Thread" button it will take you through the payment process.
According to zingo's thread:
Bad idea IMO.
Why?
Because the thread itself is always an important indicator (not the only indicator but the most important one by far) which buyers can take into consideration before making a decision.
It basically represents the seller's business card.
"But... but... but what about teh iTraderz?"
Manipulating those is a piece of cake.
Does anyone think that this 3 threads/month/service approach won't confuse buyers?
My recommendation:
Bad idea IMO.
Why?
Because the thread itself is always an important indicator (not the only indicator but the most important one by far) which buyers can take into consideration before making a decision.
It basically represents the seller's business card.
"But... but... but what about teh iTraderz?"
Manipulating those is a piece of cake.
Does anyone think that this 3 threads/month/service approach won't confuse buyers?
My recommendation:
So... essentially I have to maintain a single client simply dedicated to paying for WF thread posting fees, and then post the same thread up every ten days? This is pretty ridiculous. I mean I'm down for paying for the posting privilege and all, but $108 per month for three threads that will have no time at all to build any momentum or feedback is pretty silly.
Where is there any truth that we have to make new BST's every 10 days?
That is just silly IMO.
Just charge a monthly fee and if ppl don't pay, they don't play.
Its just going to be a huge fucking headache for the staff that is for sure. PM's are going to quadruple what they are now.
Plus they are going to have to hire more people to take care of this non sense everyday.
My Vote:
1 time fee $36 and the thread goes live.
How about the complex services like need 3 days to deliver. when op handout the review copy and waiting for review to come-in, it will be 4 days since their thread started.
Total the chances for OP to sell the services will become 6 days effectively. (some more if review didn't come within time expected, it will be less than 6 days). And will cost another New thread fee.
So because of that, I rather choose the bumping fee.
Total the chances for OP to sell the services will become 6 days effectively. (some more if review didn't come within time expected, it will be less than 6 days). And will cost another New thread fee.
So because of that, I rather choose the bumping fee.
I'm actually surprised this did not happen earlier...that other WF place has been doing it for years.
I probably will not increase the quality of offers much, but will at least slow down the thread building...
I probably will not increase the quality of offers much, but will at least slow down the thread building...