OpelAus Membership - How much would you pay?

[Kudrow]

No offence to anyone here but here is my 2 cents.

Even if this "plan" does go ahead, nothing will be changing to make OA of lesser value to anyone as it is now. Basically, we are not taking anything away if you don't choose to subscribe.

I would like to also ask everyone to have a look at 10 other forums on the internet, and tell me how many advertisements they see on the forums. This might include popups, banners, towers, rollers or just plan text randomly scattered somewhere. I then ask everyone to have a look on OA, and find external advertising in the formats I just talked about. Thats right, there is none.

There are various running costs involved with OA, this includes the domain name, vBulletin licence, hosting space, backup hosting space and the backup for the backup's hosting space.

No one is asking you to pay anything. You dont have to. Your not going to be forced to. You could pay $1 right now and we would be very appreciative of it. You could pay $100 right now and we would be very appreciative of it. However those that do, we would obviously find some way to reward, without it costing us too much money.

The idea of a "subscription" is to cover costs, and provide our own internal advertising (in the form of stickers, lanyards, coffee cups, hats, sexual based toys or whatever we might want to advertise with) in the hope that we can get more members and grow futher.

I am absolutely certain that in some way, shape, or form, that OA has helped you.

EDIT: Also costs involved with me calling vBulletin on the phone for emergency support when the database has crashed or a place in Michigan and being charged at Telstra USA Direct International Rates.

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[poita]

The idea of a "subscription" is to cover costs, and provide our own internal advertising (in the form of stickers, lanyards, coffee cups, hats, sexual based toys or whatever we might want to advertise with) in the hope that we can get more members and grow futher.

this is something i have to talk to amanda about still, thanks for reminding me

[ASTRAY]

no problems pete, im always happy to put in my 2c

kudrow,
im guessing you were with (under a different name) us long before you became owner, if not, welcome
(seems weird a member saying welcome to an owner lol)
i can see that the costs build up quickly when running a forum, and i may be absolutely wrong in guessing this, but i figure you have became owner of the forum as a business venture. i say good on you mate, it can only see oa become bigger and better. thankyou.

people can grumble about profit being made etc, but for oa to become bigger and better, the site needs to be able to make profit to invest in other ventures to enable it to become even more bigger and better.

i dont know about others, but i can totally understand profit being made for your own personal use too, considering you will be the one doing all the hard work (with the help of the mods)

i dont think you would find many people on here who would complain about a few banners etc from advertisers, so long as they were advertising products specifically to do with our opels. by all means, put up a few banners from autovaux etc, perhaps of their weekly specials...
i think it would only start pissing people off if you started allowing advertising of viagra etc. but all in all it is your site and you are the one to decide.

opelaus has helped me out in so many ways, and continues to do so everyday.

ps, im excited about the store, stickers and shirts need to be available everyday, not just every now and then.
keyrings... now theres a thought!

[poita]

i think it would only start pissing people off if you started allowing advertising of viagra etc. but all in all it is your site and you are the one to decide.

well one our of admins is a pharmacist, so it could happen

[tuzinski]

i think it would only start pissing people off if you started allowing advertising of viagra etc.

mr corsa would love that it would make his corsa go even harder down the drag strip and not blow up

[Noir]

mr corsa would love that it would make his corsa go even harder down the drag strip and not blow up

another quality comment by tuzz muzz

[poita]

tuzz u have enough troubles with ur cars power and gutters mate.
anyways, enough bs.

back to the membership details

[ASTRAY]

tuzz u have enough troubles with ur cars power and gutters mate.
anyways, enough bs.

back to the membership details

ok, kinda to do with membership...
considering im guessing only mods can access it, wtf is christmas tree races? a secret admin meeting place? or an event where we replace our aerials with pine trees and race each other to the north pole

[mr corsa]

mr corsa would love that it would make his corsa go even harder down the drag strip and not blow up

thats racing! and at least its not driven like a soft cock

[ASTRAY]

this is something i have to talk to amanda about still, thanks for reminding me

with all the changes and quote above, does this mean some sexual content will be allowed in the future?
lol, ive got a real nasty vid off the net of a,,, um,,,, handbrake lover
spending some quality time with an opel, either astra or veccy lol.