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Wincustomize to charge?!?!?!

Wincustomize to charge?!?!?!

Now now... I know full well how much it costs to run a big website... I do it myself. I don't charge people money to download things from me. I know that advertising could pay the dues of running this site two or three times over. Now, you might say that you dont want the site cluttered by advertising... but you just ask the people out there if they would rather fork over $20 for something that used to be free or have to close some annoying popup windows everyonce in a while... I would, in fact, be happy to pay if I saw some real benefit... I don't.
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Reply #26 Top
Lurchlee,

there are some outstanding skins for sale at a reasonable price here:

http://www.pixtudio.com/index.php3?page=suite&SuiteID=487
Reply #28 Top
Yeah, communism just wasn't working out. Sorry, thenakedpage.

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Reply #30 Top
Just a thought how about an auction for a exclusive suite, I don't know if it would work but I think it would be fun.

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Reply #31 Top
Wiseoldman: You close the wallpaper section, and people like me will go elsewhere.
Reply #32 Top
I guess we had better leave it open. I'd still find your works no matter where you went.

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Reply #33 Top
I didn't mean for that to sound threatening, It's just that wallpapers are very important to me, and they're the part of the site I enjoy the most, as can be seen by the fact that I have about 150 walls on here.
Reply #34 Top
BoXXi. I knew what you meant and you do those walls very well. I got some. I do like the one you have up now.

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Reply #35 Top
The walls won't be going anywhere.......without them, what would hold up the roof?....
Reply #36 Top
If you are in paradise who needs a roof, just ask GoodMorphing.

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Reply #38 Top
And Pink was played by Geldof...and HE didn't like Mondays....
Reply #39 Top
Humor mode on:

Everytime I see one of these posts on some site where the user is complaining that something isn't free I always think about what the basic issue really is:

Some guy, somewhere, is ticked off thinking that someone (not them) is getting rich.

I always want to respond to those posts with a "Hey buddy, that jet fuel doesn't pay for itself!"

Because isn't that really the bottom line? That some guy somewhere thinks that someone connected to the site is making mega bucks. I just can't imagine that anyone would want someone to lose their home and be on the streets in order to keep the site free so therefore they must assume that someone connected to the site in question is already rich and is now just trying to squeeze the poor users for more money to help pay for their extravagant life style.

So yea, T-man's limo driver doesn't work for free and those guys who clean my yacht don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts...



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Reply #40 Top
Frogboy,

I can get you a really good deal on yacht cleaners. (Just in case you were considering cutting back for the good of the community.)

And Jafo,

....but Geldof's solution was to "shoot the whole day down". A little drastic!
Reply #41 Top
what I want to know is what large site is this that he is talking about?? How many visitors it gets and is it image heavy?? I also would like to know if that site also has downloads (Like 2 mb) and how many peple download from that site.

If this is a text mostly site he is talking about then I guess that is why he thinks it does not cost to much.
Reply #42 Top
Frogboy you pay someone to clean your Kayak Yacht boy you do have a lot of money.

I could't resist
Reply #43 Top
Damn....gotta go clean a yacht....

A monster's work is never done.....
Reply #45 Top
Ok, I'm not too sure about this, because I almost never visit the wallpaper section (come to think of it, maybe I should. I'm getting sick of the standard Windows wallpapers), but if you asked the wallpaper designers to upload the wallpaper compressed in a zip file, it would decrease the size of the section by approximately 80-98% (the average compression rate of .bmp files).

Maybe they already are, I wouldn't be surprised. But it's just a thought.
Reply #46 Top
Plus the fact that it would mean less mb downloaded/uploaded by everyone. That would also help solve the bandwith issues.
Reply #47 Top
are the prices including gst? Laist thge oversreas pricing whenm putchasing-saves the trip to a currency conversion site.
Reply #48 Top
Ok, I'll attempt a translation:

Laist = Least
Thge = The
oversreas = overseas
whenm = when
putchasing = purchasing


I think that's what he meant anyway. But Aafuss, remember that the $20 is in US currency, and currently, AUS$1 is approximately US$0.55 (55 cents).

So basically, you're paying a bit under $40 to subscribe.
Reply #49 Top
Ryan8024, all walls are in the .zip format, it's always been like that.