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Top 5
1.) Beast 2.) Phantom's Revenge 2.) SROS (SFNE) 4.) SROS (SFDL) 5.) MF
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But when you have mortgage, car payments, student loans, credit card bills, etc., it's hard to justify $20 for a site I can definitely live without, especially since the ads aren't intrusive.
Don't get me wrong, I love this site and visit every day, and Jeff does a great job running it. It's just not an essential part of my life. I'm pretty sure Jeff would feel the same way if he was in our shoes.
Antuan said:
I would definitely pay....this is my work stress reliever!!
I think you got the idea. It's mine too!
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It's his turn to feast, when you ride the Son of Beast.
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My other car is a Giovanola!
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"Reality" is the only word in the language which should always be used in quotes.
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"
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Joshua Wilcox
"The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant. However, the population is growing"
ST chick said:
To all you who oppose this: put yourself in Jeff's shoes. If you were losing money every year, you would have a very different opinion. Jeff would not even bring this up if it was not a concern; it's not like he's sitting at home asking himself how he can make money, he just wants to break even. As for me, I voted for $20. Well worth it if you ask me...I am a teenager by the way, and I still think it's fair. Everyone can contribute if it's in the best interest of CoasterBuzz.
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Kara
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STChick is right. Jeff wouldn't be making any money off this and it costs tons o' money to run a site like this. That's probably the reason I jumped on buying Coasterbuzz - the tshirt. In order to keep this great site going, we need some support from members. The next time I see Jeff, I want to shake his hand, buy him some Skyline cheese coneys, and give him some monetary support. Hey, somebody has to pay for his wonderful grass. ;)
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Being smart is using your imagination, being intelligent is speaking your ideas, being brilliant is making dreams come true.
Second, when the time comes, help out if you can. We want to keep
CoasterBuzz free, but we may come up with extra incentives for those who
support this kind of endeavor. If we find a way to do this, consider
that a couple of bucks goes a long way to providing a lot more content
on a daily basis than any $30 magazine subscription ever will.
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Kara
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MambaTim said:
But I come to coasterbuzz, and use the internet because its free. I refuse to pay for it and you would lose my business if I had to pay for it.
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Well, since Jeff is making exactly nothing from your "business", I think he'd rather have 100 paying members than 1000 freeloaders.
BUT ONCE AGAIN, the question was not "pay or go away," it was pay for it to be ad free. You can see a movie on HBO for a few bucks more, or wait till it's on broadcast tv and see it chopped up with ads. Same concept.
Personally, I get enjoyment out of the site, and it's worth $10, $20, whatever, for a YEAR'S worth of it. There is nothing you can get in life that will please you for that long a span for that small a price.
(Oh, and MambaTim, I wasn't picking on you per se, just the general attitude of many members that you seemed to sum up in that one post. Sorry.)
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"Reality" is the only word in the language which should always be used in quotes.
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Closed topic.