GameStore Spam

[Twin Rose]

I'm sorry... what was your point? I went, I looked, I saw... You can pay via credit card and/or PayPal... So?

In the server drive, you could do the same. Still, in that EMERGENCY situation, 11.25% of the ENWorlders who responded, did so by checks or money orders. The problem (currently) remains.

Perhaps you meant "We're working on it! Really!", in which case I say "Good (as long as it doesn't require me to use PayPal)! I have a couple of items loaded into my Shopping Cart, waiting on you! MUSH!"

I mean that Paypal will accept checks for us, and when it clears, I get a notice. In fact, I've processed several already. It takes some manual work, on my part, but we most definately cand do it.

 

[Twin Rose]

Let me see if I can do some things to change who gets the email. Currently, it's not everyone on EN World - not in the least. Just the people who do visit the store, do searches and things that activate their GameStore account. Perhaps, instead, for people who haven't opted out it will ALSO further narrow it down into people who have made purchases and/or grabbed free product? (With the ability still to opt out?)

I have also been careful to make sure that the lions share of the newsletter is just that - news. New publishers joining, new features, and the fact that we were making a contribution to the hurricane Katrina relief product "Suck Da Head, Squeeze Da Tail" from Dog Soul publishing. Not finding a venue to pimp my own products. Certainly I won't send it out if there isn't any news to report.

 

[soulforge]

Ya know what..
I just wanna say that I'm willing to suck it up.

I mean that for a store I believe in, and products that have a hard enought time being sold. I am willing to be on your list, and to look over any e-mails.

Hard enough to sell an RPG product anyways so I want any information of new products coming Out I don't know about.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Man, this thread reminds me that I need to actually be a supporter. I'm missing out on all the irateness!

On a tangent though, I don't buy from the store for another reason - Paypal. I refuse to use it in any shape or form, and knowing that even if I send a check it goes in that account, bothers me. I'd much rather see ENWGS set up some sort of business bank account.

Which would explain why I haven't become a supporter yet either.

 

[thalmin]

I was wondering what the fuss was about, as I had not received any email about the store. Last night I discovered my spam filter was catching them all. Hope nothing important was caught in the filter.

I hate spam.

 

[Twin Rose]

Man, this thread reminds me that I need to actually be a supporter. I'm missing out on all the irateness!

On a tangent though, I don't buy from the store for another reason - Paypal. I refuse to use it in any shape or form, and knowing that even if I send a check it goes in that account, bothers me. I'd much rather see ENWGS set up some sort of business bank account.

Which would explain why I haven't become a supporter yet either.

The problem is, that many - many - products we sell cost under a dollar fifty. And a merchant account costs about a dollar fifty per transfer, plus hundreds a month. Compared to paypals 40 cents, plus 20 dollars a month. I suppose I could handle checks directly ... But I don't think I could handle them outside of the US.

 

[LightPhoenix]

The problem is, that many - many - products we sell cost under a dollar fifty. And a merchant account costs about a dollar fifty per transfer, plus hundreds a month. Compared to paypals 40 cents, plus 20 dollars a month. I suppose I could handle checks directly ... But I don't think I could handle them outside of the US.

Oh, don't get me wrong, Paypal as a theory works wonders. I just have a problem with what is essentially a bank that is not FDIC (or foreign equivalent) approved.

I know I'm missing some great products out there because I refuse to use it at all, and I think it's a shame. I think it's more a shame though that Paypal really is the only viable way for a small internet business to be successful.

And that's all I'll say, before I contribute to a thread de-railing.

 

[DanMcS]

Let me see if I can do some things to change who gets the email. Currently, it's not everyone on EN World - not in the least. Just the people who do visit the store, do searches and things that activate their GameStore account. Perhaps, instead, for people who haven't opted out it will ALSO further narrow it down into people who have made purchases and/or grabbed free product? (With the ability still to opt out?)

Any progress on this? I just received email from the game store (Newsletter #5). I haven't bought anything from the store, and this really isn't encouraging me. As far as I know, I've done nothing to set up a gamestore account, so this must have been done in the background, without notifying me, at some point. This kind of thing shouldn't activate until someone has a business relationship with your store, and then there should be a specific option page they go through the first time they buy something that sets up this newsletter option. Anything else is opt-out instead of opt-in, and that makes it spam.