I will share my reply to him with you, so you can all understand why I charge what I do and why I sell what I sell. I threw in a couple of birthday references to get the extra guilt in on him - because in my books, everybody gets one day where even their enemies shouldn\'t be negative towards them. :lol:
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Haha - don\'t you mean \"Happy Birthday Dobber!\"
****** (name) - I have written ramblings every day for 1200 straight days. That includes Christmas, Saturdays, Sundays, my birthday (today), the summer...EVERY day...and I don\'t get paid. I don\'t charge people to come to my site and advertising only pays for the hosting and maintenance of the site. If I didn\'t ask for nine dollar donations every few months from my readers, then I would have to go back to my office job. Then DobberHockey would shut down - no rankings, articles, ramblings or forum. DobberHockey is free, thanks to these sales.
So I do. I ask for a nine dollar donation to run this site. As a \'bonus\', I will give you a fantasy guide for that nine dollars. Or in this case, a draft list. Is that not fair? I am open to suggestions. I am also open to a suggestion on how to better word the ad - since it got you all riled up, I can only imagine some of the other people who didn\'t bother to write in.
Attached is last year\'s draft list - have a look, and tell me if that information and the statistical calculations that go into the projection aren\'t worth nine bucks.
Dobber
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Forget the spirit of the emails - does anyone else feel that, based on the wording of the ad, I am adding no value for the nine bucks? And does this explanation help them understand the cost? And if so - any thoughts on how the wording of the ad could be changed?
Thanks gang
B)
*To be clear - I\'m not after praise (for me) or slagging this guy. I\'m genuinely curious if some people feel this way and if this explanation helps - and if I should somehow make it part of my ad.