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Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 4 2003, 11:57 PM
We used to take checks, money orders and such for our amateur sites. There were a lot of issues and not enough orders to make it worth while. We have stopped it. Thuogh we still get some e-mail from potential members who still want to mail things in.
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Paper is a pain in the ass.
As Mike said, it still works especially for amateur type sites. But paper doesn't rebill. And by the time you've had someone open the envelope, figure out what is inside, hand it to someone else who can manually enter a membership, and then properly log it into accounting and deposit it....well, your margins are for shit on a one month membership. Might work for small true amateur sites where there's not a lot of accounting overhead, but if you're a corporation running several sites, it's just a pain in the ass.
We still take them on some sites, *if* the user wants to subscribe for 6 months to a year at the time. Percentage is small, but some do....and at that point it's found money. Basically a 6 month recurring user pre-paid.