Sales percentage to NeoGeo.com?

With all the buying/selling that goes on in the forums, has there been any thought of voluntarily paying Neo-Geo.com a small percentage of the transaction as a thank-you for providing these boards and supporting Neo-Geo.com? Especially since the selling forum directly competes with his store?

Its really cool Shawn gives us these boards and helps keep the Neo Scene alive. I'm going to support NG.com by getting SNKvsCap from them, but wouldn't mind adding a small percentage onto the items I've found on the sellers forum. We pay a small percentage to paypal/ebay, Shouldnt we do so to NG.com also? Do you guys feel the same way? Does shawn have a paypal account if we want to individually send him a transaction percentage if this idea isn't popular with others?
thanks,

Droid

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droid:
With all the buying/selling that goes on in the forums, has there been any thought of voluntarily paying Neo-Geo.com a small percentage of the transaction as a thank-you for providing these boards and supporting Neo-Geo.com? Especially since the selling forum directly competes with his store?

Its really cool Shawn gives us these boards and helps keep the Neo Scene alive. I'm going to support NG.com by getting SNKvsCap from them, but wouldn't mind adding a small percentage onto the items I've found on the sellers forum. We pay a small percentage to paypal/ebay, Shouldnt we do so to NG.com also? Does shawn have a paypal account if we want to individually send him a transaction percentage if this idea isn't popular with others?
thanks,

Droid

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Man, what kind of response do you think you will get posting something like this?
50% of the member base openly hates the site, which doesnt help.
Neo prices dont need any 'tack on's' either....

No offence to you, but just look at it that way.

droid:
With all the buying/selling that goes on in the forums, has there been any thought of voluntarily paying Neo-Geo.com a small percentage of the transaction as a thank-you for providing these boards and supporting Neo-Geo.com? Especially since the selling forum directly competes with his store?

Its really cool Shawn gives us these boards and helps keep the Neo Scene alive. I'm going to support NG.com by getting SNKvsCap from them, but wouldn't mind adding a small percentage onto the items I've found on the sellers forum. We pay a small percentage to paypal/ebay, Shouldnt we do so to NG.com also? Does shawn have a paypal account if we want to individually send him a transaction percentage if this idea isn't popular with others?
thanks,

Droid

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I am going to go out on a limb and say there would be no easy way for this to be enforced (if Shawn so decided to do it). Plus most members would just move their sales to ebay rendering a large chunk of the Market Place forums irrelevant.

Plus this would likely cut down on people posting at n-g.com and ultimately hurt sales from the neo store. The blow back from such a move would be quite damaging.

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Ahh mebbe I'll just do it on an individual basis then. I've found some good deals on the selling forum and wouldnt mind sending a percentage on a voluntary basis as appreciation for this site, just like some members are holding out to pre-order SNKvsCap from NG.com instead of going elsewhere since its a cool thing to do.

Its hard to believe 50% of the people here dislike NeoGeo.com? Then again I'm new here and I don't know the Neo-Geo scene history. Why would this be the case?

Droid

I see two sides to this:

I wouldn't mind if it was VOULUNTARY. I could see donating maybe like five bucks here and there as a thank you for allowing members to buy/sell/trade on the site and helping keep the scene alive, or maybe having something along the lines of a "club" or donation system, where members could get some kind of bonus or extra (ie. custom rank or one of those mini-avatars under the member's status) for donating.

Then again, if a fee became mandatory on all sales/transactions ala PayPal and eBay, then I could see alot of members getting angry and taking their business elsewhere, and like broken said, it would significantly cut down on people posting and visiting the site, and the market forums would be pretty much useless.

I like things the way they are now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Lord Wolfgang Krauser:

droid:
With all the buying/selling that goes on in the forums, has there been any thought of voluntarily paying Neo-Geo.com a small percentage of the transaction as a thank-you for providing these boards and supporting Neo-Geo.com? Especially since the selling forum directly competes with his store?

Its really cool Shawn gives us these boards and helps keep the Neo Scene alive. I'm going to support NG.com by getting SNKvsCap from them, but wouldn't mind adding a small percentage onto the items I've found on the sellers forum. We pay a small percentage to paypal/ebay, Shouldnt we do so to NG.com also? Does shawn have a paypal account if we want to individually send him a transaction percentage if this idea isn't popular with others?
thanks,

Droid

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Man, what kind of response do you think you will get posting something like this?
50% of the member base openly hates the site, which doesnt help.
Neo prices dont need any 'tack on's' either....

No offence to you, but just look at it that way.

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I don't know about %50 I think it is just a very vocal Minority.

Just like it seems like everyone hates SSIV (sorry had to say it

If you want to support Shawn as thanks then just buy something from him. Better to be giving him $$ and getting something back, than to give him $$$ and get nothing back but a "privelage".

SonGohan:
If you want to support Shawn as thanks then just buy something from him. Better to be giving him $$ and getting something back, than to give him $$$ and get nothing back but a "privelage".

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you on aim anymore?

If you want to support Shawn as thanks then just buy something from him. Better to be giving him $$ and getting something back, than to give him $$$ and get nothing back but a "privelage".

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Well I'll get my first chance to do so when the SNKvsCap pre-orders become official. But my pockets aren't deep enough to buy games from him often. Most times I can only afford games $30-$100 (mvs or cheap homecart deals I find on the selling forums). I can't afford to pay the premium prices, but I wouldnt mind voluntarily sending NG.com a few extra bucks for items I found here as a show of support. And you're right these forums are a privelege

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Lord Wolfgang Krauser:

SonGohan:
If you want to support Shawn as thanks then just buy something from him. Better to be giving him $$ and getting something back, than to give him $$$ and get nothing back but a "privelage".

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you on aim anymore?

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Barely. But I got this thing called Trillian that I may use so I'll probably be on there a lot more.