New idea for FileHosts. Looking for feedback

[fabiofilho]

About payment method, many of the uploaders like to receive through paypal. I will join your future host if have this option.

About filesize, if you could set it to 750 would be great!

60 days for deleting is perfect!

Good luck!

[tmcsharer]

About payment method, many of the uploaders like to receive through paypal. I will join your future host if have this option.

How about this. They sign up for the CarrotPay service to recieve the coupons when users make payment. They coupons could then be given back to me when they have collected enough (say $20) and exchange for real cash which may include Paypal. Would that be okay?

About filesize, if you could set it to 750 would be great!

When you say file size, do you mean download limit for free users? If so, 750 seems possible. We will see how it goes.

60 days for deleting is perfect!

Yeah 60 sounds like a nice number. Will start with 60 and maybe increase if possible.

[FShoppe]

The problem with 'redeeming' these coupons, particularly at face value, is you need to be able to identify whether or not these coupons have been spent or not.

Let us suppose a genuine user buys a $15 coupon (for $10). Under your model you would have liabilities of some $3 in PPD and you would have to share that $10 60/40 with the referrer. Which means of the $10, you should have $3 gross profit (excluding any overheads and bw costs etc). In such a case, that $2 received by the uploaders would be straight into their 'wallets' and they would have to come back to you in order to redeem said funds.

But if all they need is your coupons, they could just buy the $15 coupon for $10, and get $15 back when they try and redeem them.

Unless you can check if a coupon has been spent, you need to do the accounting to avoid opening up yourself to such fraud attacks.

[tmcsharer]

Thanks for the info FShoppe.

So how about this.

At first launch, do not offer PPD reward program. Instead offer higher share PPS? This would eliminate the need for accounting (at first) and limit the risk from high number of downloads.

In such a case, the PPS scheme could be more rewarding, say 75% (possibly more). Would uploaders be good with that?

[FShoppe]

Yeah that's a good idea. We are very much against the whole idea of PPD (and PPS for that matter), but it sounds like your PPS plan without PPD would def limit your exposure to losses.

Also, would be nice if you gave us some credit for helping you