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steve
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 Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: Market Place Subscription Fee - Updated - Read |
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First off I want to say I am extremely impressed with the number of people who immediately paid the $5 without complaining. Over 800 people immediately paid and I'm sure 100s sent in checks. To me that speaks volumes about this community - the support you have shown ISS has enabled me to make this statement: there will no longer be any fees for the use of the MP - buying or selling and those who paid will receive a refund. So what happened? Was this just a big April Fool's joke?
No, this was not an April Fool's joke as I totally believed that we were going to have to stick to a subscription service so we could continue to grow the MP. After seeing the massive amount of support I thought to myself that I need to go through my contacts one more time to see if we could get an advertiser to cover the costs of the MP. There was only one company I called and that company was Eastbay. Eastbay took a look at what we are doing here and not only dug our community but put up the money to ensure we could keep the MP free for everyone. Now that is true respect and vision as most companies just wouldn't understand what ISS is all about and would have walked away. But Eastbay didn't - they put up the funds. They would have put up the funds weeks ago but the timing was right. As everyone knows budgets are tight everywhere and in no way did anyone have the ISS MP on their radar for advertising.
So in the future will the fees come back? If anything we might create something that is over and above what we have now and there might be a fee for that but I don't foresee fees ever coming back for the normal MP.
The only change you are going to see is an Eastbay banner within the MP in the near future. Please support this company as they are truly supportive of our community in multiple ways. Not only have they given us tons of shoes to giveaway on the forum but they have covered the MP when nobody else would.
As I said in the first paragraph - I have a lot of respect for those people who paid the $5 without a bunch of drama. It shows real support for the community. Everyone who paid is part of a user group called the Market Place Subscription group. I am going to keep this group intact and will be offering some rare opportunities to random members including free kicks from Eastbay.
As for the refunds - we are going through them now and we'll have all refunds completed by end of day Wed. Everyone who sent checks - you will be contacted and they will be destroyed. Money Orders and Cash will be sent back.
Lastly, some people might think the haters won but I can honestly say it was quite the opposite. The true passion this community has for the MP is what enabled Eastbay to make a contribution. There were so few haters that it really wouldn't have made a difference.
Thanks again for the support._steve
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JonPwn
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you are 4 minutes late.
just kidding, thanks for lifting the fee!
edit: just out of curiosity, how much did eastbay dish in?
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thank You Eastbay good fucking looks! 
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good decision. Movel-tov
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Over eight hundred!!!
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lawls paypal just made soooooooo much money.
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| I have a suggestion how about those who paid the $5 get a choice of lets say a 24hour bump instead of the 48 hour bump |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Bushiet! Eastbay my ass niga
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Nice! Glad to hear its free again. I have my reasons on why I didn't send $5, but who cares.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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eastbay ftw....i guess i will buy my kb ivs from there from now on
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| One item I forgot to mention is that Jvini did a hell of a lot of work on the code to make this thing run smooth. Thanks for the help - |
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I was about to pay too.
thanks for making it the way it was!
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Good to hear steve.
Ily <3
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Thank you good sir. It was getting quite hectic.
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