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TDPRI · June 25th, 2009, 04:45 PM

Just so everyone will know:

We do not plan to offer any payment plan with payments of less than one annual payment. That would make it too easy for a vendor to post for a month or three or six and then stop paying and disappear. The content would remain and they would have all the benefit without paying all the cost. While this can certainly happen after one year at the very least the vendor will pay for for one year's worth of benefit.

We studied other such programs at other websites our size and feel that the price is more than fair -- a number of people have contacted us and said we should charge $1,200 a year ($100 a month). Instead we are charging what equals out to $20.84 a month. A very low and very fair amount.

Certainly, not everyone can afford this, or wants to pay that much, that is up to them. But the price is what we've determined to be a fair amount and we have no plans to lower the price or the payment schedule. For most businesses selling commercially $250 for 12 months of promotion in front of 12 million visitors is not a significant barrier to participating.

June 25th, 2009, 04:45 PM	#14 (permalink)
TDPRI Administrator Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: TDPRILAND Posts: 7,064 46 Photos	Just so everyone will know: We do not plan to offer any payment plan with payments of less than one annual payment. That would make it too easy for a vendor to post for a month or three or six and then stop paying and disappear. The content would remain and they would have all the benefit without paying all the cost. While this can certainly happen after one year at the very least the vendor will pay for for one year's worth of benefit. We studied other such programs at other websites our size and feel that the price is more than fair -- a number of people have contacted us and said we should charge $1,200 a year ($100 a month). Instead we are charging what equals out to $20.84 a month. A very low and very fair amount. Certainly, not everyone can afford this, or wants to pay that much, that is up to them. But the price is what we've determined to be a fair amount and we have no plans to lower the price or the payment schedule. For most businesses selling commercially $250 for 12 months of promotion in front of 12 million visitors is not a significant barrier to participating.