GBAtemp sponsorless once again

[Terminator02]

You could maybe try getting LighTake as a sponsor. They used to sell flashcarts, but stopped doing so sometime between now and when I ordered my DSTWO

They still have PayPal.

 

[ferret7463]

Even at those "Premium" Prices, the slot 1 cards are still WAAAAY cheaper than the GBA flash cards back in the day.

I paid £150 for my 1Gbit F2A Ultra. Did I get my money's worth? Hell yeah. I still use it to this day.

mine is a cheaper X-Rom 512 it cost me $84. it has almost outlived the SP.

 

[Cyan]

I thought about making an intermediate shop, you buy "tickets" and that ticket shop send money to the real shop (but it costs money to the ticket shop to transfer money by bank).
The ticket shop could sell tickets for different shops, not only flashcards shop.


But it seems this idea of a proxy shop has already been tested and paypal also block them

 

[FAST6191]

I thought about making an intermediate shop, you buy "tickets" and that ticket shop send money to the real shop (but it costs money to the ticket shop to transfer money by bank).
The ticket shop could sell tickets for different shops, not only flashcards shop.


But it seems this idea of a proxy shop has already been tested and paypal also block them

If you are going like that I have to wonder why mobile phone credit a la those "buy a ringtone" and "text this car registration number for a history" premium rate things have not moved into such fields in a big way (I saw some toying with it but nothing big).
Given paypal are already an overpriced middleman adding another layer just seems wrong.

Say @[member='Costello'] perhaps similar to the filetrip/shoptemp keywords we can autolink http://www.paypalsucks.com/ or something for mentions of paypal.

 

[Amber Lamps]

This is basically how pachinko gambling in Japan works. You swap your pachinko ball bearings for a ticket stub that counts all of the beads, then you swap the ticket stub for a gold coin, and then you swap that gold coin at another shop for the actual money winnings. Maybe if someone proxied it 3 times like that rather than two, who knows. I bet there is a great deal of fraud that propagates form paypal/ebay to begin with.

Back on topic though, if they lost another bunch of sites for sponsors, what does that mean for gbatemp? I haven't seen a donation page prop up to keep the site alive. I guess everything is going smooth then.

I thought about making an intermediate shop, you buy "tickets" and that ticket shop send money to the real shop (but it costs money to the ticket shop to transfer money by bank).
The ticket shop could sell tickets for different shops, not only flashcards shop.


But it seems this idea of a proxy shop has already been tested and paypal also block them

 

[gumgod]

How about trying to find a site that sells repair parts & console modding parts (as in replacement cases, led kits, dvd drives, tools to open consoles and that sort of thing and not mod chips & flashcards) or perhaps a site that sells retro games.

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

maybe sites like gamegavel.com, classicgamesrevisited.com or atari2600.com would be interested? I know there's got to be at least a few other sites like this who may be interested in purchasing ad space or becoming a sponsor.