Subscription Idea with a Twist by Succatash

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Subscription Idea with a Twist

POSTED BY: SUCCATASH
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 04:09
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Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:39 PM

Money talks, so here's what needs to happen.

We need a trustworthy person or business to collect pre-orders for the DVD's. Actually take our credit card numbers, which would get authorized but not charged until the DVD's were shipped.

What if people pre-ordered 3 or 4 million dollars worth?

I realize this is very unlikely. With so much credit card fraud and identity theft, no one is going to want to give up their financial information for a non-existant DVD --unless the "money collector" was very, very, very reputable.

But what if it was a company like Amazon.com? I know you can pre-order items on their site, for DVD's that aren't made yet.

For example, the movie Orgazmo is not available in America on DVD, but on Amazon.com you can "vote" for it by pre-ordering.

We need something like that. A simple "voting" pre-order would also be cool, but it would be much more effective if we could offer Mutant Enemy actual orders, with credit card numbers, waiting to be charged. It we could pull this off we'd win.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:05 AM

AVATAR

I agree that money up front would greatly help Mutant Enemy decide if this whole process were worth pursuing.

One thing that might help us in this process is PayPal. I've only used it a couple of times, but as I understand it, the concept is that you can authorize an amount, but it doesn't really get paid until the product is delivered. If not enough people "subscribed", I guess we could just declare the product "not delivered" and everyone would get a refund. I'm not sure how much PayPal charges for their service (and whether the buyer or the seller pays it), but it might be worth looking into.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:09 AM

LOSTANGEL

Considering I all but jumped through the computer when that guy thought about a regular subscription, I don't think this is a bad idea.

I'm for it.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

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