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Psykotik
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
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From: the safety of my padded cell
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and someone mentioned payment methods earlier. For uk you could use Nochex as it supports Solo card etc |
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Cytech
Joined: Feb 19, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Stockholm, Sweden
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with 25.000 unique vistors each day there must be some company/companies that are interested in some sort of sponsorship... here they can reach out to mobile phone users all over the world... the question is... what companies?  |
Psykotik
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
Posts: 476
From: the safety of my padded cell
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Ill have a nosey around methinks. Maybe some of the sites that are in the resources section would be interested? |
swazi
Joined: Oct 07, 2002
Posts: 499
From: Swazi in Bahrain
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Hi laffen, please could you keep us updated as to how the financial situation of the site is going.
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8810 + 7650 + SE T630*HBh-65, i know waiting for P900 to come down in price |
gadgetboytom
Joined: Feb 12, 2002
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From: London
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the kinda info we have between us you could sell
make a databse of all the latest phone specs and sell it
its not been done
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Jowi
Joined: Feb 21, 2002
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From: Pilipinas
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sad to hear that |
swazi
Joined: Oct 07, 2002
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From: Swazi in Bahrain
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yea but would you want to sell this site after all the work that has been put into to it.
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8810 + 7650 + SE T630*HBh-65, i know waiting for P900 to come down in price |
Owen
Joined: May 04, 2002
Posts: 238
From: The Netherlands - Amstelveen
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You could also try to delete old topics... Or make a max. for replies on a topic... so after 250 replies on a topic, you are not able to reply on that topic.... so a new topic (about the same topic) must be opened.
The topic with more than 250 replies you can delete after a month... Look at the size of the Pinoy Chit Chat... or all the others... Saves you a lot of space... You can keep the most important topics though.
Owen
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swazi
Joined: Oct 07, 2002
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From: Swazi in Bahrain
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yea not a bad idea for the long term but the problem is short term.
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8810 + 7650 + SE T630*HBh-65, i know waiting for P900 to come down in price |
bart
Joined: Feb 03, 2002
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From: Flanders
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there are over 10000+ mebers here laffen said it costs about 45$ a week. thats 1395$ a month add 105$ extra costs to make an even number so it costs 1500$. if we splid that in to 20 (for 20$) only 75 mebers could pay and esato could run for one month more. i think if everybody pays a small amount of money every month esato can stay alive. i'm only 17 and i hate that i'm not allowed to donate from my parents but when get 18 thats on 17mai i'm donating all the money that i've saved for esato so that will be some 100$ after that i'll donate every month.
esato has given us so much, help, service, answers, revieuws, first pics of T68i, logo, themes, screensavers and alot of new friends. its time that we give something back to esato. it's my favorite website and i would not feel bad about giving some of my allowence to esato.
bart
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Owen
Joined: May 04, 2002
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On 2002-12-04 17:32, bart wrote:
there are over 10000+ mebers here laffen said it costs about 45$ a month. thats 1395$ a month add 105$ extra costs to make an even number so it costs 1500$. |
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I think you meant 45$ a day
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Wuz
Joined: Nov 01, 2002
Posts: 319
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I'm still convinced we should be concentrating on funding in the short term. Laffen warned of this situation a couple of months ago - its obviously not going away.
Personally, I would have thought relying on regular users and loyalty would sway it in the short term... but if an added incentive is needed to donate, how about the following:
Rather than ask SE to sponsor the site... which will take time for them to set up and investigate their likely return on investment. Why not ask SE to donate a free P800 (which everyone is up for) and which would be much easier for them to agree to. Then, anyone who donates $20+, for example, is entered into a draw to win the phone. |
gadgetboytom
Joined: Feb 12, 2002
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From: London
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Adverts?
i know one wants them but its a very influnetial site
adverts are the way to go
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woaow
Joined: Jul 10, 2002
Posts: 95
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I don't think writing to SE will be useful. They are in a quite bad position in the market (falling from 8-10% market share with Ericsson handsets to 4-5% market share now), and they have to spare cash and to show good bottom lines at the end of each quarter from now if they want Sony and Ericsson to remain investors.
And furthermore, it's NO USE for a short time problem like this one. Let's urgently make donations to have Esato up and running for the next 3 months, and let's search, dig, brainstorm, help, shout every day during these 3 months to find an adequate mid or long term solution.
During these months, admins have to put a HUGE red message on the Home page explaining briefly the situation with the link to donate (accepted in the philippines, as there is many members out there). The small line "RIP Esato" in the "latest post" of the home page is too small for such news !!
But before that, we have to give Laffen a short term solution with donations. Don't forget this step or we will not have the second step (where we search, dig, ...) ever.
Just my 2 pence... |
woaow
Joined: Jul 10, 2002
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Wuz : excellent idea !! |
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