Comments on: p2pnet: for sale

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:54:51 +0000

Not really the message I expected too see, when I opened this site…

I truly hope you will continue this site, Jon, it has been a very nice place for many people over many years now. Whatever the outome will be, I do wish to thank you (and all other contributors) for making this very spot ‘that awesome’. You made me a ‘happy camper’ for sure. Fair & balanced news; input from different angles; etc…

Here’s to hoping someone will help you out, by all means possible.

Tonight I’ll toast on you! Cheers!

Mario

By: darkestkhan

darkestkhan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:45:44 +0000

well it is not big problem to pay 1$ [hmm... i think lots of ppl know what means being poor student ... ]

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:30 +0000

This is some bad news. I’ve been an avid reader of your website for the last half year and you are one of the most interesting sites I know. It would be a shame to see you go and I’m sure there are enough people willing to donate to keep the site up. I must not be the only one willing to pay at least $10 a month to help you out. Why not bring up this problem on news sites like digg and reddit? If you’d post an article asking everyone to help get it on the digg frontpage we could reach even more people. I’m sure it can be done, and even if it fails, you could fall back to a free blogspot to keep spreading the word.

All the best and excuse me for my english, MrAwesome

By: sun one

sun one — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:01:52 +0000

If there weren’t takers at $30,000 last year there won’t be any this year. Maybe a best price auction? you could start at $1000 opening bid to see what you can get out of it. Shame to see it go for 30,000 or zero. Maybe do it on eBay?

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:29:24 +0000

Thanks, Dorothy. Once again.

Cheers!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:15:15 +0000

Liz and Jon,

I would gladly pay $10 a month, and hope others would be interested in doing so as well. I’ll pop a cheque in the mail today.

Thanks for all your hard work.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:36:28 +0000

Since Jon told me yesterday about our changed circumstances we have been doing a lot of thinking and talking. I don’t know about the rest of you people but sometimes my brain just engages in a whole range of free-associations. I haven’t had time to tie them together and smooth them out but here they are:

- one of the thoughts which ran through my head was: in a weird analogy Jon is experiencing the worst nightmare of a Billy Bragg or of any other musician – he supplies a cultural product and, right now, doesn’t know whether he is going to get paid.

- to paraphrase Chris Ovenden (http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24704) perhaps the time has come to see if p2pnet has enough value to give it a price. By that I mean a price to its users. I believe Jon’s advertisers value it.

- Jon says above he is looking to sell the site: a notable story here on Vancouver Island was the recent employee buy-out of the Harmac Mill in Nanaimo. The employees, along with some investors, now own and operate the mill. In the case of p2pnet, if 3000 of the visitors to the site paid $1 per month that money would take care of our sudden shortfall.

Just some ramblings

Liz Newton

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:03:04 +0000

@ RW above:

Nope. a2f2a.com is something I’m doing because I believe in it. But I’m not getting paid.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:50:29 +0000

Never mind Jon. You now have a2f2a.com to fall back on.

All the best.