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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:52:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> Before anyone gets too excited about this, no money changed hands in this
> transaction. This is a necessary part of the conversion from a "hobby" site
> to a commercial site. While it would have been nice to run it as a hobby site
> forever, the immense trafic has made that impossible. While this has been in
> progress for some time, it was accellerated by the fact that I lost my job
> yesterday.
Wow...sorry to hear that Kevin. :(
> Brickshelf must now support itself, as I am unable to. Brickshelf
> will soon be selling Brickshelf branded merchandise, as well as other products
> of interest to it's visitors.
Sounds cool!!
> It will also soon have banner ads (ugh),
> although I will try to do that in a tasteful (yet effective) manner.
Eww... I'm sure you hate having to do this. Have you considered other
options, like subscriptions to upload images to the member gallery? From
what I understand, banners don't pay that much, if you had something like a
$5/mo subscription for each gallery member, your active membership might
drop a bit, but you might be able to pay for it without needing banners.
> A related concequence is that the Instruction and Catalog scan library had to
> be taken offline. This was necessary because the Company had not yet received
> permission from LEGO to use them on a commercial site, and to reduce bandwidth
> costs.
Have you considered splitting the site into free features and paid features,
and leaving the instruction catalog in the free features area? That way you
aren't selling access to the scans, which I think LEGO would require to
begin with. Charge for other, more advanced features, and features like
uploading to the gallery.
Or... ask for donations :-)
> I sincerely hope that a workable business solution can be found for
> those two issues.
Same here. Thanks Kevin for your dedicated work on keeping Brickshelf the
best resource for sharing images of LEGO creations and checking out
instructions on the net. Keep it up!!
-Tim
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| (...) IMO, the main great thing about Brickshelf is that it is free. It allows just about anyone to share their LEGO pictures. But, if membership fees are necessary to support the site, then perhaps you could use membership to turn off banner ads, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) What is wrong with banners, per se? I've got a banner ad that I'm going to be running in various places, are you saying that you'd have an issue with that banner being seen on BrickShelf if Kevin and I came to terms on pricing and impressions? (22 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Personally, I prefer banner ads, as long as they're not obtrusive pop-up windows, and obviously not pr0n sites. Then I have the choice whether I click or not. ROSCO (22 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Before anyone gets too excited about this, no money changed hands in this transaction. This is a necessary part of the conversion from a "hobby" site to a commercial site. While it would have been nice to run it as a hobby site forever, the immense (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general) !
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