Donations?

[bum-man]

If you read the posts from Dave, Scott, and Eddie you will find out there is no plan (but lots of discussion from others) to have people donate now.  But stay tune for this:

...the donation button will likely appear in September, and will disappear once we have raised enough money to cover operating costs.

The only exception should be ganon, when ever we can get money from him we should

[Izret101]

lol

yea 2scoop it was just a topic for debate right now.

Nothing set up.

Glad to see your all for it though

[two_scoop_steve]

i was also thinking if we have some doubles of games we can sent them to one person who has a ebay account and we could raise money that way.

[Tan]

i was also thinking if we have some doubles of games we can sent them to one person who has a ebay account and we could raise money that way.

Realistically it'd be cheaper for save the money on shipping, sell them locally and donate the money. If you can't sell it locally there's a good chance no one on eBay wants it either. 

[Marriott_Guy]

Personally, I think that the donation button should be displayed at all times throughout the year.  One never knows when they might have the extra $ to donate - having it up year round does not limit you to obtaining operating costs via donations in a small window of time.  I agree that it is important for all members to know that the donations are not being used to fund the monthly staff poker night.  Here is an idea...

Is there a way that we could display a 'meter' of some sort to show the total operating expenses versus the total amount donated.  You know what I am referring to - like the standard thermometer type graphs used at school donation drives - only much more high-tech to match the feel of the site.  People could then see if money was needed - and would immediately see the impact of their donation on this meter.  A weekly or monthly news snippet could be added to the front page to recognize and thank their kindness and generosity.  Actual dollars should not be listed with the name - all are important an no one should feel bad about even giving a $1 - all donations are appreciated.

I do like the merchandising idea.  This can be done with $0 up front - we just have to find the right supplier with a variety of products to apply the RF logo.  You could set it up that for every X dollars donated they could get a coupon worth X % off a store item.  This would not cost RF anything, but the supplier of the products would have to be in agreement since they would be processing payment and the like.

I would be happy to partner with someone on this if everyone agrees that we should proceed.

[Funk_Buddy]

I think I've mentioned this before, but here is a place for promotional items. I've got nothing to do with the site... just have seen it used alot.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/

[Tan]

I think I've mentioned this before, but here is a place for promotional items. I've got nothing to do with the site... just have seen it used alot.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/

I've got items that were made by them, very nice quality. 6 years later I still have both the hat and the t-shirt I had gotten from a site that used them for merchandising.

[two_scoop_steve]

i was also thinking if we have some doubles of games we can sent them to one person who has a ebay account and we could raise money that way.

Realistically it'd be cheaper for save the money on shipping, sell them locally and donate the money. If you can't sell it locally there's a good chance no one on eBay wants it either. 

i never tried to sell my doubles locally, i keep everything. i just thought if people had no money to donate they could send in games for prizes. i understand shipping would kill everything, or we could scan the games make an rfgen ebay account and we could ship are own games instead of sending them somewhere else and rfgen keeps the profits and uses them to keep the site running strong.

[TraderJake]

I think I've mentioned this before, but here is a place for promotional items. I've got nothing to do with the site... just have seen it used alot.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/

We've researched it, I've looked at it, and I've consistently pushed this project back for other feature-filled projects.

We'll likely be revisiting the store topic rather soon.