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- 10 February 2000
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I guess I don't understand what is costing so much for the site. It's just a vbulletin site.
For $200 a month on host gator you get a ton of bandwidth On a dedicated server. What am I missing?
Well I guess that I don't use hostgator, and that hosting isn't the only cost, and that if I had more revenue I could do some more interesting things with the site (like pay someone to help me get the WP migration moving).. But also that I wasn't asking for money, it was just some people brainstorming.
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I would suggest a listing fee of $10 for anything over $100 in the marketplace and leave the current system alone. Say 100 items are listed per month, that's another $1000 per month new revenue.
I'm not going to say I'm entirely opposed to straight charging for the classifieds.. I expressed a pretty strong "information should be free" philosophy above, but commerce isn't the same as sharing information so I could be OK with it.
However, I don't even know how to implement a way to charge for a number of listings. Is this through a plugin or something? It sounds interesting. There is still a fundamental problem with the safety of the current system that I need to fix too.