Would you pay for access to this site?

Would you pay to access this site?

  • No

    Votes: 221 83.4%

  • Yes.. but no more than £20 per month

    Votes: 4 1.5%

  • Yes.. but no more than £10 per month

    Votes: 4 1.5%

  • Yes.. but no more than £5 per month

    Votes: 36 13.6%
  • Total voters
    265
PS for £20 a month I would expect my YBW online experiance to be somewhat interactive - involving naked bimbos :). Indeed, for that money I would expect a home visit a couple of times of the year - to clear me pipes out ;)
 
NO.

The amount of advertising on here should more than pay for the running of the forum anyway.

I'm not really interested in gaining access to the magazines. Little of the content is new/novel or worth paying money for.

Besides, its not about pay pay pay. YBW get visitors to their site because of the forum. That in itself generates interest in their products. mind you I'm getting a bit p***ed off with the number of time I have to click Don't Show on that advertising banner.
 
Morgana said:
Reality is that IPC need to get with the times......
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Indeed, they need to get the time right on their various servers.
The rest of what you suggest is way out of IPC's league.

I would not pay to visit these forums.
If they want to tack on editorial content that is not of much interest to me. Like all specialist interest mags they follow an annual calendar to produce their editorial. Once you've read for a couple of years the interest in content is reduced to news and reviews.

Internet media is at one of those stuttering stages where the ideas are not proven and many operators are falling on their arses. TV broadband sites can't cover their high costs.
Boating is an awkward once-removed subject in which the content, whilst interesting the surfer is not part of the Web, but merely using the Web to access it. Gaming, celebrity watching, Youtube, Facebook and FarmVille are all part of the web experience. Boating happens on boats, on the water.
 
Re Silver Fox

Here is a smiley on me (Put the cursor where you want it to appear and then left click with your mouse on the smiley thing to the right of your post thatyou want to appear.

Changed edit function and now even have the spell checker! Thanks:D
 
Oddly enough, IPC Something-or-Other did an expensive focus group a couple of years ago, at the SIBS, partly on this very topic. It was held in a room high in the Holiday Inn, with a camera/recorder operator, and a very smo-o-o-th Senior Manager to ask the questions.

I do recall us discussing 'monetising' the forums' archives, as a usable 'Search' facility was still a valued and effective function of these 'ere pages. I thought then that I would pay, say, the cost of a mag subscription to access all that rich knowledge. So did most of the others....

That's a valuable resource. It's a pity it's all locked up somewhere, like the Met Office archives ( which used to be public property, with rights of access, when they were at Bracknell ), doing nothing useful. By the time someone wakes up to its value, there won't be an electronic device that can read the old code.

!


ps Anyone want an unused IPC freebie Harken stuff-sac, retailing then around £40, to keep the soiled nappies in?
 
the amount is wrong

Thought bit more about my Earlier post about it £12 a year I might (may be a bit more 20£) pay for access to old mags I mean the old mags 50/60/70/80 but I wouldnt pay by credit card only cheque by post once a year I dont uses cards over net
voted no to 5£ or more

I no longer subscribe as I have said in other threads but I do buy selected issues during year have bought 2 YM's and 3 PBO this past year and I would still buy selected mags even if I subscribed once a year to back mags and fora
 
If all back issues were online as part of the sub... Then 5 quid a month is reasonable but... (big BUT)

it would be instead of my sub to ym
if the community moved elsewhere... I'd move with the rest
loyalty is to this online community.. Not to ipc

would think it's a short sighted move if considered.
 
the models are different...

the models just work different for online than for publishing....

I have to get my paper YBW when and where I can - in the US... It's easy to get on the forum here.....

Look to the BBC as it struggles with these issues....

Your advertisers have to consider a world market in order to survive... YBW is the intermediary for communications with the user... wherever they may be.... So you have to learn to play that scenario as it is... not try to force to the same old technique from the 1900s.

First of all....

Posters here are pretty outspoken...

Second... They aren't shy about speaking out... it's hard to stop some of them ( :> ) from overposting when they start... So ask them for help...

Third... there are a lot of experienced and successful people here.. get some help!!!!

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ASK FOR SUGGESTIONS>.... People will help...!!!!!! Don't do some goofy idea about asking from $100 donation a month for access to old back issues...

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If you FEEL like donating funds... then send some my way & I will send it to the BSA Troop of my son.... they are raising funds to go to Sea Camp this summer... They are raising funds by going out and selling fertilizer, compost, and bags of POO for gardens... It is several hundred thousand pounds of POO that they have to sell in order to raise the funds.. Even they aren't asking for an empty donation...

--jerry
 
Posted No. I want a forum for free banter. I want a magazine to carry with me on holiday/boat/business-trips etc. to read where and when I like.
 
My first reaction was "NO". But then I thought I might pay for selected new or back articles on a per download basis (easy with paypal to deal with small charges). Finally, I realised I currently won't pay for boat test downloads which are available already. So the first answer is the right one for me - no thanks.
 
Searush said:
My first reaction was "NO". But then I thought I might pay for selected new or back articles on a per download basis (easy with paypal to deal with small charges). Finally, I realised I currently won't pay for boat test downloads which are available already. So the first answer is the right one for me - no thanks.
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I thought about It replied no.

Thought about it some more would pay 12/20 quid a year for access to old articles (second post ) I dont mean boat tests though.I am not interested in boat tests so I also would never pay for boat tests . If I was thinking of buying a boat, The only opinion that is important is myself and family so I would prefer to look at it myself and make my own decision without outside influences consequently I never read boat tests ever . I dont look at the pictures either one cupboard or sink is much the same as another one

I would however be interested in articles written about places and peoples experiences , people involved in yachting whether by sail or Motor
. For instance a few years ago there was a chap in his seventies sailing back and forwards from america(to see family) once or twice a year in a made for purpose 22 ft with no cockpit he mostly only ever wore carpet slippers I found that really interesting.I would pay To access that sort of article(that was probable in PBO thinking about it )
 
Being one of the great unloved (small mobo owner) that has extremely limited funds for my hobby, sorry no. I don't even spend £20 on fuel a month.
Apart from the obvious general chatter, I use the forums partly to find out how to do things myself so it doesn't cost me too much to keep Twocats on the water.
The bottom line is that it would be a choice of either read about boating or actually get out on the water and do it.
 
photodog said:
Quick poll....

If IPC Put all the editorial content of their magazines on line here... including all of the articles.... and then made access to the site, including these forums, by subscription.....

Would you pay to access it?


PS; if you would pay more than £20 per month... tell us how much... but vote for the £20 please!



PPS; IF you vote NO... please can you tell us why?
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Very simply it is a forum where people all around the world can have a say. Charging for it would decrease the value of the forum as many newcomers would not pay to discus a single topic. By degrading it to a closed forum, it would soon lack value and imo it would gradually die.
 
andymcp said:
Yes. If it included access to the back catalogue.
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I think it's important not to confuse the forum with the magazine content. I for one rarely have access to any IPC mag.

I believe the forum should be free and remain free. How else could IPC troll for content? It also brings in new customers for the mag. content.
 
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