The Future of Thunder's Place

Thanks theleviathan. Perfect amount for a donation. :)

How many $1 subscribers do you need to reach the neccessary goal?

I’ve been donating $25 per 1/4” and have gained 3/4”… I also said I’d donate an extra $100 when I hit a full inch. Given that it will happen eventually, I’ll bump up the timing of both 1” payments and send it now.

I didn’t know things were this dire. I just sent $10.

Guys please donate something, anything, I shudder to think what this great forum could turn into if it ends up in the hands of some greedy, sleazy company that just wants to make a quick buck.

Thunder,

How about this, free to join, $20.00 fee per year for the ability to post.

I think this keeps the integrity of Thunders, and guys can come in and see that its for real and not some scam and get free advice from reading here. If they decide they want to ask questions for themselves, they have to pony up the $20.00 fee for a years worth of posting. To answer some of the dumb ass questions that keep coming up, I’d like to charge a lot more! :)

You could have a paragraph for new members to read about the need to cover costs to keep the integrity of the place and not have a bunch of dick pullers move in and run it, well… new dick pullers anyway.

I’d hate to have other management that may not have the same integrity you have. I have passed up offers to Mod at other sites, because of the integrity of this place. I have fairly high standards when it comes to that, and certainly wouldn’t be contributing the same way with a site I don’t respect. (we won’t however, talk about the political leanings here :) ).

It will just be a percentage on any given year of paying members, but at $20.00 per, it should cover costs fairly well, unless you blow it on babes and coke! (also I want a guarantee you aren’t going to contribute any of it to the DNC!)

Well in this case, I guess it was an April fool’s joke as initially suspected however this one was lined with truth.

I have grown more than an inch and I can not even begin to tell you how much this place has done for me and if it means that I donate every year so be it, those of us who can should do it, every dollar is a dollar in the right direction.

I can not imagine where I would be without Thunders, I have learnt so much and in many ways am at greater peace not only because of that between my legs but mainly owing to that which has been gained between my ears.

I have been meaning to donate but I have had to go without groceries the last 2 months and what little cash I got together this month I bought a new Bib hanger with. But just so this site doesn’t go to DLD I will do what I can!

There, I hope that helps. :)

Ok, it was an April Fool? However, on the serious point this raises, I suspect if I had to join a pay site to do PE I would have NEVER found PE.

We are told by so many PE is a con and to HAVE to join a paysite to even start would reinforce that in my mind, and I suspect many others. Now considering word of mouth, i.e. your mates or family arn’t going to say “hey I’ve been stretching my dick and it is bigger” then by making all PE sites “pay” I suspect will only dwindle the amount of people who use the methods.

Quite simple for me, if I had never joined and been able to read for FREE in the first instance thunders, I wouldn’t have even thought PE was for real.

So really I guess if the site did ever become pay per view, I’d hope a system is found where we can still connect to newbies and give them the newbie routine AND hope. Some people get depressed over their size and knowing they can help themselves and thunders and it’s vets can give them a routine or help is vital, in my view. I don’t see it as right we pull the bridge up from others once we have gained.

I will get round to donating at some stage.

But just on a business aspect, it seems counter productive to charge. If a supermarket is popular, they don’t start charging for people to come in, they don’t see popularity as something to reduce. The site is popular and I’d say some sort of advertising is much better than donations. PE is so an uptapped market, so why doesn’t thunders do a shop or advertising links to the equipment or adult products, etc? Or charge a sales fee for good sold through here? etc?

I like that idea, I don’t think it discredits the site, as long as the advertisers are cool with a disclaimer that nothing is endorsed by Thunder, I think it would be good.

Just as an example, I have a bib, clamps and a few others bits and bobs. If I could have got these via thunders, I would have, but I couldn’t. Or if say thunders had an affiliate to bib’s site, they could earn for sales and click throughs.

Thunders would have to be careful to try and remain impartial, but that would surely generate income.

Think alone of the supplements guys use, zinc, horny goats weed, etc, some kind of affiliate relationship on those sort of products alone would generate good returns, surely?

…slippery slope down to a sleazy site whose mission is influenced by the agenda of advertisers.

http://www.peforum.net/ See what our sister forum looks like now with the we don’t need no donations route.

I’d agree that that is something you’d have to be very weary of. Let me know if mine goes through fine btw thunder.

It is something to have a policy over, however, doesn’t almost any and every business/ media work with advertisers? T.V., sports, newspapers, magazines, etc?