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Hey Y'all: Idea Number One: My weakest recommendation is that an honor system be set up on the marketplace pages, and that any seller obtaining a sale from a contact made on Lugnet pay a small percentage of that sale to Lugnet. Obviously such (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: The LUGNET Credit Card
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(...) I'm not sure what those affiliation cards yield, and how many potential users you need to get one (it may not be that many people actually, though I bet the yield is better the more people you have). If you got the big spenders sold, and you (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: The LUGNET Credit Card
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(jumps up and down waving like a crazy person) me me me me !! -- Thanx~ Nicole~ (URL) Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GwF2Mx.9Hw@lugnet.com... (...) used (...) credit (...) displaying (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | The LUGNET Credit Card
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One possible source of income (though probably minute) that Todd and I used to imagine was making available LUGNET VISA cards. It'd be a regular credit card with LUGNET graphics on it and a tiny portion of spending would come back to us. We kinda (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) I just tried making some PayPal donate buttons, and it was darn easy. No HTML was required, so I can put them in sidebars. see: (URL) thinking about what I could make for a custom button... and whether or not I'd splam it on the whole site... (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) ... (...) ... Larry's right, the fee is pretty steep for a dollar donation. However, for a dollar donation, Amazon is better than PayPal. Here's Amazon's Honor System fee schedule: https://s1.amazon.co...ystem-fees Amazon's cut is 15% plus (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) I thought they take a pretty significant fee out, to where if someone gives you a buck you don't end up with much at all... (?? could be misremembering) Thus making Paypal better from a net receipt perspective. (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) use (...) This is good to know. Anytime I can help out Lugnet I am glad to do so, as are many other Lugnet users I expect. Suggestion: List all of the Affiliate Partners on the main .admin.finance page for easy reference and ease-of-use. (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) We had something like this that went to PayPal. (Not sure what happened to that). Amazon actually contacted us about their honor system program before its release. We looked over their documents and decided it wasn't better enough to warrent a (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) Oh yes! Amazon referrals earn LUGNET 5-15 percent. To make any purchase at amazon into a referral, just go to the product's page, and edit the URL before putting the item in your shopping basket. Edit by inserting the word 'lugnet' after the (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance) !
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| | Re: Amazon honor system
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(...) Sounds good to me... I have an old link for a Lugnet referral to Amazon.com but I haven't bothered to use it the last few times I ordered from Amazon. I never found out if it was revenue-generating for Lugnet. If it is, I will gladly use it (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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I don't know if this has already been suggested, but LUGNET could choose to more aggressively solicit donations easily and inexpensively using Amazon.com's "Honor System" program. I ran into this today on this site (which is the best I've seen for (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: LEGO Partyware
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This is totally shameless, I know, but.. I signed LUGNET up as an affiliate to a retailer who carries this stuff. We earn 20% of all sales. I've put the link on Baseplate for now. To warn you, they insist on using a cookie: (URL) ...let's think of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.party, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: affiliate programs
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(...) Suz- I buy lego online whenever there is a worthy sale, appx. thrice a year. I will use affiliate links every time once it is set up. I'm sure I am speaking for many. Good luck and thanks for all the work put into Lugnet by you and Todd. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: affiliate programs
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(...) You forgot Costco on that list. The Costco (misspelled "CostCo") information is woefully out of date, and should probably be removed. I don't think Costco is still offering any LEGO sets. They sold out soon after being listed on the Brickwise (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: affiliate programs
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(...) Thank you for doing all of the work on this, Suz. If any of these affiliate agreements are revenue-generating for Lugnet, please make it easy to locate and use the correct link-ins. Somewhere I have a bookmark for an Amazon.com Lugnet referral (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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FYI, and welcoming comments... I'm hoping to get the LUGNET Shopping Guide working again. We now have affiliate partnerships with these, and a few other, sellers of LEGO online: e-Toys K-B-Toys Amazon / Toys'R'Us K-Mart / Bluelight Wal-Mart (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) This might get into policing issues, if some vendors try dominate the newsheaders area by flooding their group with announcements. But it should be easy to set up automated watchdogging. Have a proggy watch the vendor groups, and alert you (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: LUGNET monetization ideas (was new newsgroup)
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(...) The bandwidth and server co-location actually aren't all that expensive, because we serve mostly HTML pages rather than tons of large images. It's the human time that's the main factor. (...) There aren't any scripts that display the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <snip> (...) Make sure you have a clause that you can refuse to provide the service for anyone for any reason. A kind of CYA statement, so if things were to get out of control you can get rid of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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