Dammit, dammit, dammit.

[redneckgaijin]

The credit card merchant account I opened has been closed before I could process a single purchase through it- for, you guessed it, adult material policy. Card Services International has a no-porn policy, too- not merely no-porn-for-sale, but no-porn-involved-in-any-way-at-all.

I was -really- counting on that account, too. Looks like I'll have to put the begging bowl back out.

In the meantime: superhappy, what service do you use for Slipshine? Do they do anything besides subscription-service transactions?

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[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

I'm reluctant to set up any form of pay site for the following reasons:

(1) They're never worth the money. Sorry, Josh, but even Slipshine didn't have enough content I -liked- for me to stay subscribed past a few months, back when I was a member. That was probably my -best- experience with a pay site.

(2) Sell one e-copy, give away a thousand, thank you very much pirates. It's bad enough I have to watch the binaries groups and do semi-regular Googling of WLP and its products to hunt for existing pirates. The reason WLP's webcomics are free, above all else, is that you cannot control anything you post to the Internet.

(3) WLP doesn't have the readership to sustain it. At a rough guess, WLP has about three thousand regular readers of its webcomics... but only about a hundred who actually step forward to be identified as such. Making the comics subscribe-only would cost the comics about 90% of their readership... and with as few pages coming out per month as we have, the subscription rate would have to be EXTORTIONATE.

(4) Don't own Adobe Acrobat, nor a computer powerful enough to run the current commercially available version. WLP's current computer is a 2001 model.

(5) Not at all certain that the print comic version can survive competing with an electronic version.

(6) Print quality = MASSIVE bandwidth. Would also mean a page per day is about all I could -upload- out here on slow dialup.

and finally

(7) I swore WLP's webcomics would NEVER be made pay-per-view only. I'm reluctant to go back on that pledge.