Pondering, pondering.

[conuly]

A long time back, I asked why you couldn't buy seperate (separate? I hate that word) features without buying a full paid account, and got a nice, understandable answer about profit (basically, those features aren't worth enough for LJ to break even selling them alone).

Except now I'm thinking, what if they could be sold individually, but you had to buy a certain amount up front - maybe $5 or $10 dollars worth, however much that would be. Would this be possible and still profitable?

Hm. I might've asked that back then. If so, I completely forgot whatever I was told. Sorry.

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I think it'd be small compared to the loss of people who buy the full package because they want some of it. It's an incredibly rare paid user who uses all of the benefits.

And I think it'd be messy to keep track of. And then what about when the person repays but gets a different mix of features... And I'd expect an increase in: what happens when FOO expires... and I want to renew but I want to swap X feature for Y...

There is a basic annoyance factor to having a more complicated system.

[conuly]

All right, all right! *grins* See, this is why I post here first. I know youse guys are smart enough to keep me from making myself look silly.