I made no mention of disliking the service/benefit ratio. I simply said their ongoing unplanned outages holds me back from wanting to donate financially. No hard feelings toward anyone at BGG, but these are my expectations as a potential cash-paying customer.
The tired argument of "go somewhere else if you don't like it" is irrelevant. I support them as a viewer of the advertising but won't support them financially until service is reliable. On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:07:52 PM UTC-6, orionstars wrote: > > In my opinion if you don't like the service/benefit ratio - then stop > using the site completely. You can view ads anywhere. Visit the online > retailers by going right to their site. So delete your BGG account and > don't use any of it's resources anymore. > > If you don't like this freely available, massive, community built with no > financial compensation, platform for OoP game information and launch pad > for new ventures, smart-phone/tablet/computer accessible, creative gaming > resource - bow out. > > (By the way - take the challenge, I did it myself. I stayed off the site > for quite awhile to see if I really made use of it. It didn't take long for > me to run into the issue of not being able to find the rule answers and > variant info Anywhere else. So I'm not talk from a point of ignorance here. > I took a spoonful of my own medicine.) > > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:53:40 AM UTC-6, Travis Sonsalla wrote: >> >> Agreed. This is exactly why I am more than willing to view their >> advertisements but not be a patron. They are a business, and to have such >> a history of repeated unplanned outages comes across as unprofessional. I >> wish BGG the best, but earning my financial patronage will require a >> consistently stable and available site. Just like I would expect from any >> other web site I choose to support financially via subscription or donation. >> >> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:45:22 AM UTC-6, yo wrote: >>> >>> why does this site go down so much considering how much money it makes? >>> no other website that I have visited in the last 10 yrs or so, has this >>> issue. >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/TlfT29EHigsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
