Shanester Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Today I renewed the forum software & the technical support contract. The great part is that all but $4.12 was covered by proceeds from the Amazon & Sideshow banners. Thank you for your continued use of the banners for purchases made from these sites. It really does help. The commissions from use of the AFX and Entertainment Earth banners is still trickling in, so hopefully one day there will be enough for some nice prizes. You folks have made this a great community and now its a fairly self-sustaining one, as well. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbpanizzi Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniFiend UK Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I have no idea what it costs to run a forum like this bandwidth costs or anything related to doing something like this, but its great news to see that alot of ppl have had a helping hand. Time and time and again this forum shows its a great place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker 42 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? That got donated to one of the many charities. Whichever one it was that the last one supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 The great part is that all but $4.12 was covered .......... The stigma of debt hanging over these boards was haunting me & I decided that it could no longer go on......I have subsequently donated $5 to put us back into the black. As everyone knows......I am all heart :biggrin: This is the second time this year I've spent $5 ......the first time was to buy Iceland Thankyou Shane . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyd Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Happy to help, Shane. Considering the amount of time I spend here, the least I can do is help fund it when I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Fantastic news! But, I don't see an amazon banner in the rotation, and don't recall seeing one for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I'm seeing one .....like now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Big banner in the middle of the page? Mine scrolls between Sideshow, Stuckakid, Entertainment Earth, and Limited Edition. Luke's little link is always there on the left side, and AFX's is always on the right side. That's all I see. I use the Firefox browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttheadsmate Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Big ol' banner thingy straight in the middle.......I use Old Spice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Doesn't appear for me, Shane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke314pi Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Do you have the AdBlock Firefox extension? That blocks it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 (edited) No, I don't have any extensions or plug-ins that should block ads I don't think. Weird. Maybe it's just me. Edited October 9, 2009 by karamazov80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthRaider Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Congratulations to us! Here's to a few more years of minimate-filled shenanigans! (I don't see the Amazon banner in Firefox but I do see it in IE.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcastick Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? That got donated to one of the many charities. Whichever one it was that the last one supported. The majority of the proceeds went to charity, the rest was donated to the forums for maintenance . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fujis Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? That got donated to one of the many charities. Whichever one it was that the last one supported. The majority of the proceeds went to charity, the rest was donated to the forums for maintenance . 75% went to Books for Kids and 25% went to the operating costs of the forum. Glad to hear things are working out money-wise Shane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Harris Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 First of all: Woohoo, good news Shane! Do you have the AdBlock Firefox extension? That blocks it. I do use it but it's strange? Does it really only the amazon ad? I see all the other brother Karamazov mentioned above, but I've never seen an amazon ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke314pi Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Do you have the AdBlock Firefox extension? That blocks it. I do use it but it's strange? Does it really only the amazon ad? I see all the other brother Karamazov mentioned above, but I've never seen an amazon ad. Yep, just the amazon one for some reason. Thanks for the patronage! My old job had a coffee vending machine, with all of the usual choices as buttons. And then beneath all of the other buttons it said "Thanks for your patronage!" and yet there was a button next to this. I decided to try a nice cup of "Thanks for your patronage!" one day, and got a cup with 1/3 coffee, 1/3 hot chocolate, and 1/3 hot tea. It was actually quite delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? I wasn't meaning to leave that out, but assumed everyone knew what came from that. The Charitymates did net some cash to the Multiverse, also. Fujis has done really cool things with Charitymates and it will be missed. I'll look into the Amazon/Firefox thing. I never knew it was a problem. OK, that is very odd. Time to look at the code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBT! Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 What about the money from Charitymates? I wasn't meaning to leave that out, but assumed everyone knew what came from that. The Charitymates did net some cash to the Multiverse, also. Fujis has done really cool things with Charitymates and it will be missed. I'll look into the Amazon/Firefox thing. I never knew it was a problem. OK, that is very odd. Time to look at the code. I think I fixed the Firefox amazon ad issue, if anyone has any problems or it's screwy in another browser let me know. T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 Thanks TBT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Harris Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Yes you did. And I'm going to use it to contribute to ol' MMMV on the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 ThankYOU guys for running this site. You have provided hours of entertainment/procrastination/distraction from work. I'd have gone postal at my job months ago if not for you guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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