Well, its not looking good for warp2search. Its close to impossible to get an credit card account in Germany if you are not in absolutely good standing and have a regular income over the last 12 month.

Therefore I thought about another solution. They do have a credit card account with the online store and Degger could set-up a page on warp for to accept donations in fixed values, e.g. 5 US, 10 US etc.

The billing would be handled through the shop and the credit card receipt would show 2checkout and moddingstore.com. All money would be submitted to Degger's account and he would report daily (Hall of Fame) on warp how much donations are received.

I contacted Degger and he is offering following:

If you donate 20 bucks and submit a banner in 460 x 60 to banners@warp2search.com it will be displayed for 24 hrs on top of warp. Maybe you use it for to advertise your own website or your girlfriends birthday,or.......
Of course no pron;-)

You could have some fun and warp could survive.

Of course Degger has to look for other sources of income, as adds and maybe sponsored reviews, but this is not possible in the short term. If you know somebody who would like to be a sponsor for warp, please contact Degger.

That's my proposal, does anyone has another idea?

Maybe we think about it to give you half a year complete Ad-Free Access to the site when u donate 20 Buckz. What do you think about that ?

It isn't that hard!
Me got One, so you cant be right...
I am only a poor student!
Everybody can have a credit card here! It's cheap and they don't ask you much questions...
They hope that you spend more money than you have... that's how they earn their money!
greetings...
Mister.de

When you change the financial situation with me you will see it is hard. I know, you are from germany, so you know "Schufa".
Ok, I have monthly income but more than the half goes away for W2s, the other half for my apartement, food, phone e.g. So they see there s nothing over and the server bills going higher and higher every month cause of growing.
Also, as I told you in the other thread, adfirms need up to three months to send over the cheques. So I have to finance this first before the payment of the adfirms can can cover a bit of the costs.

To give you a little overview what traffic costs:

Germany biggest, Puretec took 0,005 Cent for one Megabyte of Traffic.
Ok, i get it cheaper but with number you can calulate the traffic costs.

For November W2s took 1,6 TB (1600 Gigabyte).
If the money what w2s earns with ads, donations eg. would cover the traffic costs I would me more than happy and problem is solved.

Best
Niels

and where is the prob if warp goes down? starting begging to get a life? who really cares, there are so many other sites with news and they are free

Me never would give a cent for content just collected from other pages. use google and you can find it all

just my 2 cents

Then way don't you go use GOOGLE then! :roll:

... the Guest is right, the masses wont pay for content, ive worked for the Tomorrow Focus AG, germans biggest content provider... and it took them a lot of time and money and time until they understand that you cant earn money wid content... only wid porn.. and we dont wanna start this, ai? :-?
so its a pitty that nobody would pay.. cauze you've created one of the nicest sites i've ever found!
sweeeet as ... dunno.... but very sweet!

btw: why don`t ya start your home server? all ya need is an good upload... and wid Sdsl you get what ya need... (Nordersted, Wilhelm Tel, for example)

btw3: i like to mirror more stuff for ya.. me got only 20 mb web space, but they are not traffic limited!!! so i could always mirror the newest files.. like today .. thanks for the traffic! its very impressive and im looking forward for an site partnership!!! (which banner could i add at my site?)

greetings

Mister.de

Man some ppl are such a****s! They don't even bother to register. Have to remain anonymous! Anyway, Degger: will we be able to donate through the store? Sounds like a solution, because even though there are other tech sites out there, I love W2S because of the almost constant updates! Unlike some sites that are static for days at a time. There has to be a solution so that W2S can stay afloat!!

Its possible. Gerhard (Master boss of the store and holder of the 2CheckOut Account, also my boss) is working on a entrance to the 2CheckOut system.

For more informations about 2checkout:

http://www.2checkout.com

Okay guys, I have arranged a payment method with 2checkout.com and if you guys want, you can help Degger to keep w2s alive.

Degger will make a seperate page on warp and put up some buttons with different values, e.g. 5 US, 10 US etc.

If you click on one of the buttons you will be transfered directly through 2checkout and you can donate the amount via credit card. The server is secure and you will be billed by 2checkout over moddingstore.de.

I will waive the transaction fee (hopefully we can make some money at the shop :wink: ) and submit all donations to him.

And remember: For 20 bucks you will get 6 month no adds and you can submit a banner which will be shown on top of the page for 24 hrs.

Any comments? Please do

HOOORAY!! A way to keep W2S alive - if enough care to contribute. It'll work for me.