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Originally Posted by nbr3bagshotrow
This forum does cost Danny to run. Server cost and software. The adamantium charge is minimal IMO.
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I realize that but it does seem a little misleading to have a title that says it costs nothing when it does cost something...just like ebay.
People share all kinds of links from every different company showcasing their new statues with links to where to buy them and order them....do these companies have to pay for all that free advertising? No...but us little guys who are just collectors and everyday people with no budgets like these big companies are charged to share one or two links of things we are selling?
There are plenty of places you can meet people online and sell them things and not be charged by the place you met the person.
If I met a person at a Wonderfest convention and later sold that person something should I have to pay the wonderfest convention I met them at? I just think it has gotten a bit ridiculous in our world for charging people for every little thing....that is probably why am overreacting a little bit is not that I am angry as much with the forum but how our whole world has become in general. Forums never used to charge for selling things back in the day and now they are entitled to do so.
I used to own an antique/oddity shop and was very successful with selling things online and eventually built quite a following on facebook over the years with all the people we met who we told about facebook at conventions we attended. We eventually started making half our income off direct facebook sales of those people we met and directed to our page. Then I think in 2015 they completely changed their algorithm and started blocking companies from having contact with their audience of buyers. They came up with the idea of "boosting" posts...aka paying for people to see them. Now people do not know any difference but there was a day that you could sell on facebook for free without boosting a post to reach your audience. This cut my sales in half and I ended up selling my business in 2016.
No different than the government overtaxing people....should I feel guilty and selfish for wanting to keep more of my hard earned cash instead of having the government take it away? We are already over taxed and I feel that we are now being "taxed" so to speak in every day situations that used to always be free....people have just forgotten how things used to be and the younger generation doesn't know any better.
Make Merica great again!! LOL!!