I've gotten a number of replies from customers who tell me they are philosophically opposed to subscription services, but want to support me and would be willing to make periodic donations to the site, especially if I reminded them about it every year or so. 
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More than one person told me they have to talk it over with their wife, and will make a decision in a few weeks' time. Dude, if converting requires a family meeting and a long, tearful phone call with your pastor, just stay on the one-time plan. You're freaking me out a little.
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(I explain to the people who are philosophically opposed to paying for an online archive that I am philosophically opposed to not taking their money)
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I also hear from people who are unemployed or long-term ill but will try to scrape together a few bucks to upgrade to a regular subscription. No! Let me squeeze it out of the philosophical ones instead. Please don't turn the thermostat down so you can afford bookmarking
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Honesty I’ve thought more about $20 online purchases than I have about house purchases, simply because there wasn’t the artificial time pressure to make a decision NOW.
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Yep. Humans have STRANGE tipping points in how they react to amounts of money or whatever.
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-looks at my Steam library- Mate, you may be a bit off there
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It probably does get easier with repetition
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How many of these people questioning a Pinboard subscription are also people who buy domain names like the rest of us buy candy
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oh yes this is well known. as
@patio11 says, "charge more". and ya know what? he's fuckin' right.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Meanwhile they plunk down the corporate card for $30/mo form building software without hesitation and stay subscribed for 5 years before anyone notices they have no active forms
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consider: - who is paying - who is absolved - who is solved - who is impressed This is a bad way to say the folks that pay for both of ya vary by end goal.
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