On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:12 -0800, A. Johnson wrote:
> Problem:  DW needs to make money to run!  And we want to have more  
> than just paid accounts to make people want to give us money.  Small  
> impulse purchases are especially awesome, but small money amounts are  
> disproportionately eaten by fees.  So, for instance, if we sell $1 v- 
> gifts?  We only get 67 cents if someone buys just one, because there  
> is a 2.7% + 30 cent fee for the transaction.  That is sad and a waste.
> 
> Possible solution: We implement a (nonrefundable) points system.  [...]
> 
> So: good idea, bad idea, unrealistic?

I like it.  Facebook handles this by allowing people to purchase 11 gift
tokens for the price of 10, or something like that, but points is a more
flexible system.

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