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Can you sell fake t-shirts? Or some sort of other non-tangible good? Something I've seen on other sites, like GameDev.net, is that you can buy a membership, w
by douche 10y ago
Can you sell fake t-shirts? Or some sort of other non-tangible good?
Something I've seen on other sites, like GameDev.net, is that you can buy a membership, which for all intents and purposes is a donation, since it doesn't really get you much besides an extra tag next to your name.
- Crespyl 10y agoReddit Gold is pretty much this, it does grant a handful of convenient features, but is primarily a way of supporting the site and recognizing particularly good posts. I don't know how successful it is from a financial perspective, but it seems like a model that could be applied to almost any community/discussion oriented sites.
- prawn 10y agoMight not move the needle relative to their other options like jobs, ads, etc. Companies that could have, but don't seem to have, used "enhanced membership" or donations or similar for making money: Facebook (and Instagram, etc), Twitter, Hacker News, etc. I'd say there's something to take from that.
- pluma 10y ago> fake t-shirts For a while a popular way around PayPal's restrictions was for sites selling services that were in violation of PayPal's ToS to go through an intermediary site for donations/credits. So you would buy a crappy e-book for $20 or so, or maybe a couple of mp3s for $5 each and forward the receipt to have the equivalent credits added to your account. Pretty clever as the ecommerce sites themselves had full plausible deniability -- there was no obvious link between the PayPal merchants and the (most likely anonymous) people running the service.