Buying Membership of Dingle’ Games
If you have an account, make sure you are logged in. Select Buy membership page and then click the membership you want. Go through the Paypal payment and when complete it is important than you select return to merchant as this will enable Dinglesgames to set up your membership.
If you have problems let me know
paul@dinglesgames.com
Hi Paul
I seemed to have made a mistake. Instead of purchasing a lifetime subscription. I pushed the Paypal button for one year. I didn’t find out til re logged in. Is there any I can correct this? Thank you
Hi Paul
Thanks for the swift reply. That makes a lot of sense – no point in offering one week memberships if you’re essentially making a loss by doing it. It’s a good site, so certainly worth developing.
Perhaps you could offer some sort of credit system for occasional users?
They could pay a flat fee to have a limited number of days usage, i.e., you sell 30 days usage for $15 dollars, the same as your monthly membership, but they can use those 30 days as they need to.
As an example – I buy 30 days today, spend every day of this and next week using it, say 12 days, leaving me 18 days. Then, next month, my group speed through what I have prepared and I need to use the site again for some preparation, say spending another full week doing that, leaving me 10 days left in my ‘pool’ to dip into the next time I need to do a large amount of game prep.
I would imagine that charging a slightly higher rate for this option would be prudent, both in reflection of the added convenience it represents, plus in anticipation of price rises due to inflation, so maybe around $20 for 30 days? That would make it better value than the old weekly option, with added flexibility of use and hopefully attract the larger payments you’re hoping for from occasional users.
I’d also suggest that you’d want to time-limit the use of this, so an occasional membership of this type would expire after one year even if all the days hadn’t been used.
I appreciate that this might be infeasible to set-up, but I wanted to suggest it, just in case it’s something you hadn’t considered.
Cheers,
GJ
Hi Gapperjack, the problem with the one week option is that paypal were taking 34C out of every Dollar as a transaction fee. I would need 23 $1 memberships just to make a $15 six month membership. I wasn’t getting 100s of one dollar memberships a month (maybe 30) so if just one of them took out a 6 month membership I’d break even. I’m trying to make enough money on the site so I can spend more time developing it. I’m open to suggestions on pricing strategies which could make the site a profit.
Cheers,
Paul
Hi Paul
Please can I check why you’ve removed the 1 week membership option?
The game I run is infrequent, and tends to move slowly, so it was great to find a site where I could pay a membership for a week, use the site to generate what I wanted, and then just pay up when I wanted to use it again, rather than feeling I was wasting money on a membership I barely used.
I would be interested to know why you decided to remove the 1 week option for membership?
Cheers,
GJ
Hi Ico1983, I’ve now set you up with a 3 month membership.
let me know if you have any problems
Cheers
Paul
Hi, I think I made a mess. I purchased a three months membership last year. Now I just purchased another three months membership but I forgot to log in before I did. So I cannot use it. Can you help me, please?
Hi Lazarus, I’ve received your Paypal donation and have now activated your lifetime membership.
I prefer to pay by Paypal so I made a $40 donation for a lifetime membership. Please let me know you have received it.
Thanks
Hi BeadyDock.
You can use 1 UK pound = 1.6 US dollars, or you can just use the current exchange rate, it does seem to hover around 1.6 – 1.62.
just donate the amount and tell me what login id your using.
Paul
New question, different category. I am interested in purchasing a membership, but I want to do it via paypal. I know you said that is ok, but how much for the lifetime in US dollars. Since the exchange changes regularly, I was curious if you had a flat US fee also.