I would be willing to bet that there is a LONG line of folks salivating to be able to start putting ads on Gio. Doubt if any soliciting would be needed......ever. Chuck, CABGx3

Best idea I've heard yet. Chuck, CABGx3

I think Mark has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t want to be in the business of selling advertising. And I don’t blame him. I myself run a business providing and selling service X. I would not

Janice . . . I wondered about this too but it would only work if the members had to get their messages at the group web site and not by email. Yes, ads could be put in the posts emailed out to

My group is a Premium group grandfathered in from years ago so these changes do not affect me. I currently pay the $10 a month fee out of my own pocket for my 2000+ group. I know that if I were not

Scott, Thanks for this prospective. Like you, I have created and "own" groups that are not "mine". They belong to others who lack the skills needed to create/own/manage a group. I have no desire to

I wish there was a way to give money to io groups with no strings attached. I have a couple of grandfathered groups I will not make into paid groups for a short time and then have to go back to a free

Mark, There's a lot of ground to cover in this topic, but having read through it now I do have some 1st impression comments. I agree with what many have said about 100 being too low an absolute

Drew, Why not? If I understand the existing donation mechanism, the proceeds of each member's donation are deposited into the group's Stripe account. What the group owners do with the money is

Ken, I prefer the idea of voluntary donations, but if the group owner wanted to make donation mandatory then I'd say "absolutely". In fact, were I an owner of such a group I'd be more inclined to

Scott, Same for a handful of groups where I'm a co-owner. I believe that the members need not do anything with Stripe, they just make a CC payment much as you did to pay for Premium Plan for your

Trustpilot gives Stripe payment 3.6 stars out of 5. That's not very good, but from the few negative reviews I read it seems like it's mostly the sellers and businesses which have the complaints

I agree with Drew about Members needing to be viewed and treated as Customers, instead of just the "Owners". Many Members even belong to multiple Groups. There needs to be a way for Mark to get money

I would send a donation. <kensch888@...> wrote: ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM

I cannot imagine the increase in the complexity of billing, recording, and reporting the millions of charges if individuals were charged rather than groups. I don't know how many groups Mark has to

The group owners are the customers in the current pricing structure. The subscribers are a commodity that owners need to manage in order to reduce their own costs. Something like excess inventory--

1. Amazon SES allows 2000 outgoing mails per day on its free tier, plus $0.12 per gigabyte. They charge $0.10 per 1000 mails after that, but I suspect that that extra pricing is simply there to

True. Only journalists basically take a vow of poverty. ;) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human

Methinks "Public Service" and "benefits to subscribers" are not necessarily the same thing. Chuck, CABGx3

Hi Bruce, Mark had asked us to keep sharing our opinions, because he understands that no one is intelligent enough to see all aspects of a “problem” from a single perspective. That’s why most