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Apr 2014
12:50pm, 11 Apr 2014
4,261 posts
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Jambomo
If say £5 or £10 a year were enough, i'm sure the majority would feel it was worth it. A different forum that I go onto sometimes is a free site which collects revenue by advertising however if you want to it is possible to pay £10 a year and join as subscribing member and then you don't get adverts, they also have competitions and stuff so it is worthwhile.
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Apr 2014
12:50pm, 11 Apr 2014
14,212 posts
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fetcheveryone
"I've just clicked the little blue triangle in the top right corner of the ad, and looked at the opt-out options. On the page it took me to (after it took a while to think about it), there was a button called something like 'Choose All Companies' - I clicked that, and thus far, it seems to have opted me out of all the ads."
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Apr 2014
12:51pm, 11 Apr 2014
6,683 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I reckon Frobes is oerly optimistic, for people who use it a lot, maybe they would cough up, there is a vast number of people who justuse it as a database, or for a quick chant and are quite irregular (users, not shaped), I reckon you would lose a lot of them, so it would be difficult to judge how much you would charge. If the amount was only slightly too much, people would scarper and it would die as a site pretty quickly.
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Apr 2014
12:53pm, 11 Apr 2014
4,262 posts
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Jambomo
I don't think that people should necessarily expect to get a site as fab as fetch for nothing, I guess it would be nice to see if we can get Mr Fetch some income from other sources in case everyone just blocks the ads.
Can I ask, I use fetch on lots of different computers as we hot desk at work and I also use my phone. Do I have to do the opt out thing on each computer or is once enough?
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Apr 2014
12:55pm, 11 Apr 2014
25,563 posts
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Frobester
I personally don't give a monkeys. You could plaster all kinds of ads across it and I'd still use it. I'm just struck by the amount who've said they're prepared to pay. It's historically been problematic for organisations charging people to use their sites and still expecting usage/readership to be up there as it was when it was free. I wonder for example how many still read the Times online, now there's a paywall. Or, for that matter, amongst those who view porn online, who'd pay for that.
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Apr 2014
12:56pm, 11 Apr 2014
17,361 posts
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HellsBells
I've clicked the opt out thing and nothing's happened
where do i send my cheque?
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Apr 2014
12:57pm, 11 Apr 2014
14,213 posts
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fetcheveryone
HB - did you go through to a page where you could tick a long list of companies?
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Apr 2014
12:58pm, 11 Apr 2014
8,942 posts
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Keefy Beefy
Isn't the amount of people who said they'd pay about 17?
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Apr 2014
12:59pm, 11 Apr 2014
13,891 posts
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chrisity
i now have a message in the ad box saying that internet explorer cannot display etc.
I daren't leave the page in case it disappears.
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Apr 2014
12:59pm, 11 Apr 2014
5,531 posts
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becca7
Hurrah. Opting out via the blue triangle worked.
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