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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) I think it would be up to the advertiser to be clear about what (s)he's selling in a specific store ad, in my case kits vs parts. As a visitor, I'd be peeved if what I reach by clicking on the ad doesn't match (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) gray spaces in boxes would be other ads. their content is omitted for brevity. same with the store names as authors after message healines. Only two stores have been indicated. Those time stamps are intentional however, to show that the two (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) I think 6 months is a bit extreme, especially to start with. I would suggest 1 month as a minimum, but you can buy longer time periods for a slightly better price. Perhaps a listing fee plus a monthly fee, so that a multi-month ad ends up (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) In a typical 'marketplace' advertising situation, adspace can be taken out by just about anyone, but bigger operations are encouraged to take out more prestegious and higher quality advertising space (more expensive) throughout editorial the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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Jude Beaudin wrote in message ... (...) website (...) for (...) Yes, I'd like them to be treated as 2 separate stores, but I'm more interested in getting the issue thought about and decided beforehand, rather than having it come up once this has (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) So are you saying that you would like to have two seperate accounts? One for your custom model kits and the other for your parts shop on Bricklink? I do not see that as a problem, if you are willing to pay for both accounts in essence doubling (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) nifty (...) lugnet.admin.finance (...) just (...) I like this idea, it looks interesting! How would you decide what "a shop" is? Individual Bricklink stores vs Bricklink itself, for instance... or like I have (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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(...) Okay, I made a quick mock-up. This isn't a fully developed concept... I just want to give you some idea of what I meant in previous post. (URL) some number of shops would have ads surrounding their own posting area. How visitors found a (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) "Neal":-) whom I met a BricksWest runs a T-shirt printing (...) -John (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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Suz, and anyone else reading this, There are probably enough fans with enough different jobs that some services and products could be greatly reduced from "normal" costs to greatly enhance the profit margin. For example, John (last name?) whom I met (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: A few ideas
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Actually, if your company was web based an had more than 15 employees, you couldn't make it with Banner adds and other variable courses of funding. If your company was a popular (definition to this is ellusive) web based company and you had 15 or (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: LUGNET monetization ideas (was new newsgroup)
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HELLO.... hello... h e l l o... h e l l o.... (echo), Did anyone read Ashley's ideas? Some these are gems. I especially like the raffle idea. I didn't know other sites were raffleing things off. I personally would love a shot at a major set for a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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One of the ideas mentioned in a previous threads was the possibility of banner ads in a format similiar to the back pages of a magazine. Several used game reseller sites use that very same idea like this page of links at Bartertown.com. (URL) while (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade and market.brickshops
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(...) Okay, I'm reading up on this now. I still have to discuss it with Todd, who'll make any changes to charters, so give me a couple days. Meanwhile, I'll also mention (just in case this makes anyone reconsider their stance) that, waaaay long (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
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Haha! Actually Eric, the idea has merit, if we can get by the "initial cash outlay" you mention. ...But as for icky ideas, maybe we could start an ABS recycling program and finally find a way to make profitable use of broken elements and those (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Well, for the third time since moving to South Carolina, my cable modem is quite firmly -down- (writing from pub.lib again). On Saturday afternoon, someone from RoadRunner will check it out. Just wanted to let you guys know. :-[ Yesterday I (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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This may be a little far fetched but... How about getting a LUGNET LEGO set made. Maersk does it, Velux did it, among others. You could then sell the set on LUGNET (or elsewhere) for profit. The biggest problem with this idea that I can see is the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) I think you're just looking forward to a paycheque! ;) Dave (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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I'm happy to see all the positive feedback we've gotten in the first week of this newsgroup. Over 50 messages! That's great. Until now, I've resisted the temptation to post because I wanted to let conversation fly on its own. ..ok, I admit, such (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: Brainstorming to Keep LUGNET Alive
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(...) Good point. (...) See above comment. :-) (...) Agreed (...) This is where you make a good point. LUGNET needs money but I think it will only survive if it remains free. The above idea has a lot of merit. I would like to see it explored futher. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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Och! Ug! Okay, so it's after midnight here, and having only tonight (last night?) learned of this particular group, I have spent much of the last hour reading everything posted here thus far. It was one of my first (perhaps only) experiences around (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.admin.finance
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Hi Suzanne, I am eager to see, and to brainstorm with you, ways to make a site like this profitable. If anyone deserves to make a profit and employ at LEAST one person, it is LUGNET. I have been trying for a few months to get Brickfilms.com to the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| | Making money AND improving Lugnet!
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I've read a lot of the ideas in this group, and welcome more. I personally think that anything that tries to get the community at large to pay much more than it already does won't work for two reasons: first, it will end up driving away the very (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Scott: This kind of thing belongs offline. To all: Please don't clutter up newsgroups with bickering. It wastes my, and many other people's, time. -Suz Suzanne Rich LUGNET Admin (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.announce)
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(...) If I understand things correctly, LUGNET can be a small C corporation and all business expenses come out of all income and the difference only is taxed. If a cost to the business is paying for the vehicles and computers of the CEO and (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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