Paypal even works well with any shopping cart. Most ot our donors use PayPal even though they don't have an account. Some of them utilize it for recurring donations which Paypal nicely handles. But,

All, I am moderating this topic. Unless your post demonstrates that you know what I've already said on this subject in this thread, and adds to the conversation, it will be deleted without

Also Mark said he's not planning on doing anything. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu

Jerome, Just stay. As Shal has said, eliminating free groups is not even on the table. This whole discussion went wacko. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

Like I stated before.. I am not a company No money changes hands for what we do it would be illegal.. Against the FCC rules. But paying if we must maybe.. But most likely I would just drop

Are we the only ones missing the attachment icon? And I did a hard reload... Thanks, Ginny -- Ginny T. gttemari21@... ======== TemariKai.com

Groups.IO offers 501(c)(3) organizations a discount. What Mark would do if a non-profit from Canada, England, or elsewhere requested the discount, is up to him. If the applicant were IKEA, I'd hope

All of this sounds right. Who are the competitors??? -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond

What you are missing is how Mark views the different plans: * Free groups are his marketing tools; * Premium groups pay the rent; * Enterprise groups provide the profit; He's got a couple of

Dear all, Speaking of business models, I propose to you support for paying for advanced account level access via Paypal, including the option to set it up as a preapproved payment. This way, users do

I agree with Barbara. I moved my Yahoo group here because the basic level of Groups.io was free. Otherwise, I would have made a different choice and moved elsewhere. My group has always been run for

Bob Bellizzi Gutter language, Explain please. If Put Offish or the word Screwy offends.. Grow some think skin. When were… It was fast becoming a good runner up for Facebook.

Paul, There's always customer push-back to taking features away (which making them paid features effectively does when the feature was formerly included in your plan). For any given feature you choose

Thank you to Shal for this explanation and also J_Catlady. There has been much misunderstanding in this thread. I withdraw my comment. For myself I want to stay but I feel as list moderator I made a

Hi All, This thread happened while I was on various planes. I am totally fine with business model discussions, and there have been some interesting ideas discussed here, but these topics do tend to

Michael, That's not on the table, it is only in the imaginings of some members posting here. Mark has committed to the "Freemium" business model, where the Basic groups are free, subsidized by the

same here, if we have to pay for basic service, consider me gone.

As a new user to Groups.io I was very surprised at the response to this thread. Discussion seemed to be quickly derailed away from the original topic. To make things explicitly clear: I am not

I’ll bet that just about every permutation of opinion on this topic has been made more than once, and that it is about time for us to voluntarily put an end to this thread. Randy T

I created a site that is 'premium'. There are very few premium features that we need. We are a group of retired guys who had a free ride at Yahoo for 10 years. It worked until it didn't. I think most