Post by Hash on Jun 5, 2013 10:08:07 GMT -5
Just wanted to see what the response to it would be. Because as it is, I can no longer pay to keep the cbox on premium. Which means, when the next payment comes up, it will lose auto-refresh, pictures, its CSS, and all the good stuff. As it is, I haven't been able to pay for ad removal for months because of all the traffic we get.
Some sites I've seen ask people to donate money. But most of the time, the people who donate don't really get anything. So I don't want to ask for plain old donations.
I was thinking I could have a store here where you can buy certain things for your characters and accounts. I would have a thread redirecting to a webpage listing everything you can buy (because I'm not sure if proboards lets you make profit from running forums with their service). Then you could pay me through paypal (credit card or debit? Idk about debit). I don't really know how to use paypal yet, lol. Nothing would be overly expensive, aside from the ridiculous things like auto rank ups. I haven't thought this out enough to know about prices yet, though.
Buying stuff from this store wouldn't be mandatory by any means, I get that not everyone wants to blow money on RP sites, lol. And not everybody has a credit card or even a lot of money. It's just something you can do if you want certain characters to grow faster, or you like some of the other random things we'll sell.
The money I get from this would be used to pay enough of my mastercard off so that the cbox payments can stay up, and I can remove ads, making the site load faster (if I get enough money). On a site this large, the 50,000 hit limit runs out in less than a week usually, so it's about $28 a month. Haven't checked for a while, but I'm pretty sure that the cbox is $3 a month.
I figured, since I put a lot of work into this place, it wouldn't be horrible to make some extra money on the side from it, or at the very least, have it pay for itself. And like I said, buying any of this stuff is optional. So I guess I'm just wondering what you guys think about this, who would be interested, etc.
Some sites I've seen ask people to donate money. But most of the time, the people who donate don't really get anything. So I don't want to ask for plain old donations.
I was thinking I could have a store here where you can buy certain things for your characters and accounts. I would have a thread redirecting to a webpage listing everything you can buy (because I'm not sure if proboards lets you make profit from running forums with their service). Then you could pay me through paypal (credit card or debit? Idk about debit). I don't really know how to use paypal yet, lol. Nothing would be overly expensive, aside from the ridiculous things like auto rank ups. I haven't thought this out enough to know about prices yet, though.
Buying stuff from this store wouldn't be mandatory by any means, I get that not everyone wants to blow money on RP sites, lol. And not everybody has a credit card or even a lot of money. It's just something you can do if you want certain characters to grow faster, or you like some of the other random things we'll sell.
The money I get from this would be used to pay enough of my mastercard off so that the cbox payments can stay up, and I can remove ads, making the site load faster (if I get enough money). On a site this large, the 50,000 hit limit runs out in less than a week usually, so it's about $28 a month. Haven't checked for a while, but I'm pretty sure that the cbox is $3 a month.
I figured, since I put a lot of work into this place, it wouldn't be horrible to make some extra money on the side from it, or at the very least, have it pay for itself. And like I said, buying any of this stuff is optional. So I guess I'm just wondering what you guys think about this, who would be interested, etc.