[HCoop-Discuss] Dues/Upgrade: Why are you willing to spend what yo u are?

[j.c.hallgren at juno.com]

And I may be one of those handful who have said something as my budget for my site is quite limited. Right now, with the $5 dues, and I am asking $6 donation per month to cover costs, that extra $1 pays for my other expenses (domain registration) so upping it to even $7 would leave me $2 per month in the hole as I can't ask anymore from my donors at this time. I would have to attempt to find another host that more fits with my current budget as HCoop did perfectly when I joined it and dues varies but averaged around $4 month.

If the current costs are $6.06 per mth, then we obviously have to do something to fix that deficit, and I could justify paying $6 until we get some more members to cover that extra $1 again. Ok, so that still doesn't cover the $.06 but unless we want a non-integer amt, then that's the best I can do.

I don't think my site uses an excess of resources (like B/W, Disk) as compared to the highest use sites (some of which uses hundreds of times my usage), but I'll freely admit mine does use a large multiple compared to a nbr of the smaller sites. And yes, I know B/W isn't that much of a cost factor but I think it may relate to how much other resources a site uses which maybe does affect cost and hardware rqmt's. 

I don't want to be labeled as a constant complainer about dues, but for me, HCoop has a cost factor presently that I can handle and also some very minor features that I need that may not be available elsewhere so I'd love to stay if I can afford to. Raising dues to something like $10 would force me out in a heartbeat unfortunately.  
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>
To: hcoop-discuss at hcoop.net
Subject: [HCoop-Discuss] Dues/Upgrade: Why are you willing to spend what you are?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:35:19 -0400

Generally only two or three people ever say anything in opposition to higher dues
and so I wanted to see what the silent majority thought.

So far a *lot* more people than I expected are ok with dues at
$10/month. Personally I don't want to raise dues above $7/month, but it
is good to know that half of the coop won't jump ship over a modest
increase in dues.

Now, to the people who are not ok with $7+ dues, could you let us know
why? I don't want my plan to silently price people out of the coop for
reasons that could be resolved. 

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