[Spike-A-Pike]

Gees King, open your eyes. Some aspects are taking place already. TU never stays idle for long. The HelpCenter is one of those new additions. You thought that fees collected would be about $70K, that is about the salary of a Sr Web Admin, but what about the web designer, application developer, advertising director, and all the other positions being filled by the same guy.

[Coley]

Hold on guys. The point is this, "Are you willing to pay up to $60 a year for what
you have now and what Jerry is proposing" and thats all it is.

[TNBasser]

Coley, the value to me, a pure novice, is worth every bit of $60. If it was $50, $40 or $30 that's even better. But I'll pay $60.

[kelly]

The pole was easy for me. First time I sean it I voted yes and did not coment. To me its easy this is the only goto site. This is also the only site I belong to. I do not have tv, well I have 4 chanels. Do not eat out much (fast food or sit down) mabey 2 times a month or less. But give my children anything I fill they need or want to a point. I do spend money on my habit (making lures) Money made on sunday or side work on holadays. You know this hat fits good and is good quality to it. Try to buy a few things and see if that helps his desion. Bottom line I might start to sell my garded tackle to pay. I will help when asked.

[yankee jigger]

Originally Posted by TNBasser

Coley, the value to me, a pure novice, is worth every bit of $60. If it was $50, $40 or $30 that's even better. But I'll pay $60.

Not to get off the subject,but TNBasser,where did you get those smallmouth????
I lost a 22+ a couple of years ago and still have nightmares.I need to redeem myself.

[Ganns]

Well, I missed the poll, I just don't look around often enough and I missed it. Would I be willing to pay the membership fee? YES, I don't post often, I read much more than post, however when I have asked a question, the answers were swift. I have a part time Tackle Business and I have to make my time count. This site has a wealth of information, and the willingness to share. I'm sorry I missed the poll, but I will be a continuing member, as long as the site exists.

Have a great 4th of July

Mark Hiser
Ganns Performance Tackle

[Lincoya]

I have been a member of TU since its birth. I have made a lot of new friends here; some that I have even had the pleasure of meeting in person. I have learned an untold amount of information. I don't post often but you can believe that I am usually here at least once a day unless I'm out of town or busy.
I, myself, find it hard to believe that anyone here wouldn't be willing to pay to keep this site running. How many fishing magazines do you subscribe to? How many "cold ones" did you have today? What is it? 1 pack or 2 packs of cigarettes a day? What about that brand new $200 rod or reel that you just had to have? My point is: we all buy things that we don't need. We just buy them for our personal satisfaction. But these things are disposable. Stop and think about how much knowledge you have gained from TU. This knowledge is yours forever! This knowledge can be (and has been for many of you) a money maker. I've seen the prices that some of you charge for your crankbaits. $25 or more. It just seems to me that for all of that knowledge that you have gained that you should be willing to give something back to the site. Even if it is $60 a year, I would consider that a bargain.


Gene

[King Bait Co.]

Spike the reson for the question was me and my friend are looking to start a forum type site for are kids that are pre teens. It is going to be about fishing the kids do and they have a safe place to chat about fishing,show off their pictures of the fish they caught and lures they made that kind of stuff. Our main goal is the safety of the kids on the site first and formost. We just thought it would be cool for the kids to make friends all over the U.S. that have the same intrest in fishing as they do. My ten year old little girl likes to help pour worms and has a lot of questions about it. She doesn't get to pour them yet she just pulls them out the mold and keeps count for me. We were thinking of putting a general tackle making fourm on their also because alot of kids like the idea of making their own creation. We don't let them ask questions here because people get mad when a question has been asked before and leave a negative response or just say use the search. The problem is we don't have a clue on how much it cost to do this. Thats why I was asking about the money because we were thinking $5 to $10 dollars a year to keep the site up and running. People make it sound like it take $50,000 a year to do this ( not meaning Jerry just some of the stuff I have read so far on this). Sorry I didn't share my plans on the money question.

[Spike-A-Pike]

King,
I'm sorry. There are web sites built like Lamborghins and web sites built like Yugos.

My definition of a Yugo - A static information web sight, where the content is put up by the acting web admin can be done on the cheap or even free if it isn't to large and you don't intent for those viewing it to post to it. And well limited and a little primative, it could all be put up in native html which is a free launguge you can put together with any plain text editor and view in most modern web browsers. It will do part of what you want but you won't like tha ride.

My definition of a Lamborghin - A custom, perpose built web sight where users can view and add multi-media content through intuative site navigation capable of handling hundreds, if not thousands of user requests, simultaneously, for data, media, and content without delayed server/application responce. An internet place where site and user security is built in and transparent to the user base, especialy when performing finacial transactions for the perchasing of goods and services and server reliablity has a better than 99.9% in commision rate.

[jimcline]

I guess I missed the poll you're talking about. Where do I find it?