It's a great idea, and one I would go for, if paypal were available in more countries. You bet it would decrease the number of requests, but it would also keep people from the poorer countries from gaining access. Unfortunately, I don't really have a better alternative. The only idea I came up with was to have the person type their e-mail address into a form. They would then be e-mailed a password which they could use to fill out the form like they do now. However, the catch would be that they couldn't return to fill out the form until 72 hours had elapsed. If they forgot, then they probably didn't want the discs anyway. Thoughts? :) Sincerely Aaron Cannon At 04:27 PM 2/26/2005, you wrote:
Aaron,
This probably won't solve the problem, but how about requiring a $1 donation through paypal? The cost is low, and it puts a large enough barrier (in my mind) to prevent needless requests, while permitting people who truly need/want the CD/DVD to get it. I know there are numerous problems with this method, but I wanted to throw it out there for discussion.
-brandon
Aaron Cannon wrote:
Right now, we are receiving more requests than we're fulfilling. In fact, it's been like this for the past several weeks. I'm interested to know if any of you happen to have any ideas for ways in which we might decrease the number of requests, while still making sure we get the discs to those who need them most.
IMHO, I think the best way to go about this is to increase the inconvenience factor for placing a request. Right now, people can just click on the form, drop in their info, and submit it. The ease of this process has undoubtedly caused a lot of impulse requesting by people who may or may not ever use the discs we send them. However, if we could somehow make it more work for the requester, but still something that isn't terribly arduous for the people who really want the discs, I believe we could solve the queue problem, at least in the short-term.
Of course, the devil is in the details. Any ideas on how we could implement such a system? Any thoughts or arguments for or against?
Sincerely Aaron Cannon
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