NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/apple2/17815

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!johnt
From: [e-mail] (John Townsend)
Subject: Re: Shareware collection agency?
References:  <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (Usenet Administrator)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:49:15 GMT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mike Hackett) writes:
|>     I personally think that if there was a convenient way to purchase
|> shareware programs, such as a phone number or an email address that accepted
|> credit card orders, more people would take the plunge.  But most shareware
|> authors don't do much business, and are often just hobbyists, and so don't
|> justify setting up the facility to accept credit card orders.  So I propose
|> to centrallize this collection and set up just such a service: allowing
|> both phone or email registration, as well as a regular mail service that
|> accepts Canadian or U.S. cheques and credit card orders.  And all payments
|> are made to a central location so you don't have to send off four cheques
|> to four different people for four programs that you want to register.

I too think this is an excellent idea.  It seems to me that Big Red would be
the ideal organization to do it, too.  They already have most of the infra-
structure that would be needed, including a large mailing list and lots of
advertising, and already distribute shareware programs.  This could be a very
natural extension of their current services, IMHO.

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