Re: RinkWorks Subscription Thoughts
Stephen, on host 68.7.169.109
Monday, July 21, 2003, at 22:34:13
Re: RinkWorks Subscription Thoughts posted by Ria on Monday, July 21, 2003, at 22:21:09:
> Whatever you do, whether it be a couple dollars a month to be able to post or a few cents per post, just be sure that you can somehow (without it being at expense for you) make it to where it isn't only possible through credit cards. Paypal has the option to withdraw automatically from a bank account, which is what I use to pay my hosting charges for Niveous.net, and I'm just hoping BitPass would have the same option.
One nice thing about BitPass is that it allows other people to give you BitPass "cards." See, the way BitPass works is you prepay for a "card" (though you don't get an actual piece of plastic) the way you would a prepaid phone card. This way your credit card is not being billed for a bunch of little one cent purchases -- since each transaction costs the credit card companies (and more importantly the merchant) a fee, this isn't feasible. For instance, when I signed up at BitPass, I gave them $3, of which I have so far spent $1.75. I still have that $1.25 free to use however I'd like.
The cool thing is that I can buy these cards for other people. So if it came down to somebody not having a credit card, it wouldn't be hard to just mail a check to a friend with one and have that person buy the "card" for you and give you the access information. Pretty smart system, really.
Stephen
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