Heres an idea
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#1: Heres an idea Author: deven66, Location: Ill.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:23 pm
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Maybe have all the girls that are selling their panties on this site pay a fee for advertizing and we can have chat again . Lets face it, more adds than good stories in forum lately, alot of good people seem to be gone. Sorry just my opion . Anyway i's been more than 2 weeks, chat or no chat ???????????????????
#2: Re: Heres an idea Author: WETPANTIES,
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:47 am
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Yes i agree with you there are a lot of people advertising panty sales they should pay a fee to do this!
#3: Re: Heres an idea Author: paul_smith01, Location: UK, North
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:25 am
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A lot of these people are advertising dirty panties - getting boring now!!
Come on - charge them! there should be no free advertising!
#4: Re: Heres an idea Author: pantyman, Location: PANTYLAND
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:34 pm
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good points! we are still deciding what to do, at the end of the day we may just shut it all down.
#5: Re: Heres an idea Author: Rachy, Location: UK
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:57 pm
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If sellers should pay to advertise then shouldn't people have to pay to view the pics that are submitted to the 'pictures' area?
I like the idea of the chatroom (never used it as I'm quite new) and I wouldn't mind paying to use this site, but I am not paying for everyone else just because I am a seller.
Rachy
#6: Re: Heres an idea Author: PantiesDelight2, Location: UK
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:14 am
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good news. we re just trying to set one up through our website should be up within the next month so keep looking. love claudia at www.pantiesdelight.com
#7: Re: Heres an idea Author: pantyman, Location: PANTYLAND
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:29 pm
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I started PantyMan.com as a free site in 1995 and have kept it free ever since. I'll bet I have shelled out the better half of $200,000.00 of my own money since the early days just so others like myself would have a place to meet & chat. I would hate to start charging now, but it has come time to do something as I can not keep running it like this.
The site now commands more time than ever and more capital than ever to run & host. We now have over 7500 users and with all the pictures the cost of bandwidth is rising monthly. I would either charge all the same or make a donation link. I think the donation is the way to go?
Question: would any of you have any issues with donating (vrs) paying ? please LMK.
thank you for your honesty!
PantyMan
#8: Re: Heres an idea Author: whowhat1,
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:43 pm
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frankly i would have no problems donating,reason why i wouldn't like the pay by month method is because most of them go by a credit card and i really do not trust them kinda things...last time i used my credit card to buy something i got ripped off and was out 600.00
#9: Re: Heres an idea Author: Rachy, Location: UK
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:00 pm
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I would not have issues with donating, however I am a student and my panty selling is my only form of income so I wouldn't really be able to spare much or often :( I'd hate to not be able to access the site though.
How about for those of us who can't pay a lot, we could be assigned as moderators to help you wade through pics and stuff and therefore reduce the time you need to spend on the site? I know this doesn't help with the bandwidth costs though.
Rachy
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#10: Re: Heres an idea Author: Rachy, Location: UK
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:01 pm
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Also if there's any behind the scenes stuff any of us could help out with I'd be more than happy to pitch in :)
Rachy
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#11: Re: Heres an idea Author: fiversex,
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:45 pm
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Donations are a good idea -it's worked for other sites. If you go this route you should not limit it to Paypal -as some ppl don't use it for various reasons.
Another idea is to limit your direct costs as much as possible -there might be ways to reduce your bandwidth such as not hosting pictures directly on your site (no I'm not advocating stealing bandwidth -you can link to sites that WANT the traffic -or members here can host things like pictures).
Another idea is Advertising -a lot of people hate that idea -but it can help offset the costs -if you go that route you should encourage members to click the ads every so often and spend some time on the advertisers site. I would imagine that this site could generate a lot of interest with some advertisers.
Other ideas -Compress HTML, streamline the site, make many features 'member's only', but keep it free and simple to become a member.
Ask members to contribute more content -better yet, ask members with skillz to contribute code/time/energy: choose some people to be Admins. so they can take some of the load off you, so they can help keep the site efficient, and legal.
Wherever possible use Open-Source solutions -like for the forums!
Streamline AGAIN: who needs HTML in posts? Who REALLY needs 'smilies'?
Anyway, these are just a few thoughts, pantyman -I'm sure you’ve thought of many of them before but I thought I'd mention them anyway.
And Thanks for this site, pantyman! -I know I'm not the only one who appreciates it.
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