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

To be clear, I, as well as probably some others, am not “arguing” with the upcoming plan. I’m happily grandfathered in and am just expressing thoughts that occur to me and which may or may not

Folks -- Just sharing a few more thoughts that I'm having on Basic groups then I'll exit from this discussion. 1) Lacking most of the online features, and only storing 1 GB in attachments, the primary

The unpredictability is a good point. It will force many basic groups to become restricted to manage their member count. And then there will be triage, as in: "Well, we already have 100. Is this new

Having had a chance to think through this... First, Mark has said that for existing, not upgrading, groups, existing, legacy, price and features will be maintained, so they are unaffected - good for

My apologies, I did not intend to "propagate". Samuel

I thought so, Mark, but in light of how this conversation has been going I wanted to make sure others understood. Pete

I was referring to Samuel's table. Mark

Just to be clear, the table I posted was not intended as a joke, but as a illustration. I believe it to be correct (but I hope anyone who finds an error will check me on it). Pete

I’m sure each person contributing is doing their good faith best to understand the upcoming changes. The two recent “alternate presentations” of the new pricing structure are more logical and

Oof. Fixed. Sorry about that. Vacation brain. Thanks, Mark

Propagating an incorrect pricing structure, even if done as a joke, is not helpful. Mark