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        | deven66 Panty "SILVER"
 
  
 
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                |  Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:23 pm    Post subject: Heres an idea |   |   
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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 ??????????????????? |  | 
     
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        | WETPANTIES Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:47 am    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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! |  | 
     
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        | paul_smith01 Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:25 am    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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!
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        | pantyman Site Admin
 
  
  
 Joined: Nov 06, 2005
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                |  Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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. |  | 
     
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        | Rachy Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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.
 
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        | PantiesDelight2 Panty "GOLD"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:14 am    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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 |  | 
     
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        | pantyman Site Admin
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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!
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        | whowhat1 Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
 
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                |  Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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 |  | 
     
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        | Rachy Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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.
 
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        | Rachy Panty "PLATINUM"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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 :) 
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        | fiversex Panty "GOLD"
 
  
  
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                |  Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Heres an idea |   |   
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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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