Did Tommy just start charging
 

So I went to submit to Tommy's Bookmarks and was asked to pay $50 for a partner account (I paid of course) I'm just surprised I hadn't seen it mentioned on the board

Uhm... where did you find that ?
I don't see anything like that at http://www.tommys-bookmarks.com/submit/

I got it after I hit the submit button

Yes he has started charging, $50 a year I believe (or one time fee).

I've only been listed on Tommy's Bookmarks once. But judging by the amont of traffic the one listing is getting I would have paid more |jester|

I wonder if all the big boy's (and girls) are going to go to this route

I guess that means I have to start submit more often than 1 site every third month :D

$50.00 is a steal of a deal

$50.00 is a great price. Most places want several times that for only a month. And Tommy's traffic converts better than those sites.

I paid my $50 :D

I'm also watching this closely to see how it goes.....

Cheap at twice the price :) Tommy's gots some kick ass traffic :)

With the amount of traffic I got from tommy $50 is nothing.

It would be cool if he added more specific categories...is the only request I have.

I bet this will cut down on the cheaters by 90%+.

Less crap for them to sort through and even quicker review times perhaps.

It's all good.

For that amount of traffic that Tommy's providing $50/year is an ok price.

Thank you everyone, I have to admit I was a little nervous about the change

I appriciate the kind words :-)

Its a great deal just got my account.
Some places I don´t have a problem paying for submits if its the right site and right price ;)

Tommy, I think I must have submitted a site milli-seconds before you started the fee... should I resubmit and pay the $50?

submitted under webmaster at link-fabulous.com

thanks
Kez

If you are willing to share I'd be curious how fewer submissions you get over the next week or so.

@Tommy, I just submitted a gallery to you and all went the old way - ie no asking for paying anything - is it because I was a partner before or something's wrong on my side ?

You're one of the first as always but won't be the last :)

Actually I just tried to submit another site and this also happened to me... it went through as normal and there wasnt a message to pay... just a thank you for submitting

Gee... didnt think the day would come that I could not give away money!!

Tommy... |help|

looks like those who were partners doesn't need to pay 50 bucks
YEY! |bananna|

That would be great but GG said:

So maybe only GG was charged :D Well You never know who can turn out to be a cheater + I never heard of him...

I didn't want to be the 1st that came out & said I didn't have to pay :D

Sounds like the end is nigh for free traffic. (yes, I said nigh) As much as I hate to pay for anything, traffic, sex, whatever, it will probably be ultimately better for the industry, assuming the fees remain below the 'outrageous' level. Any token amount will drastically cut down on the cheaters and hobby-hour slip-slop. Tommy is charging just less than 14 cents a day. You can't even feed a third world kid a bowl of rice on that amount. :D

I'm happy to pay to play. Tommy's traffic rocks.....tho it's a sad state of affairs when he's forced to do this. I'd like to know tho....does one pay the $50 with the application or do you have to apply, be approved and then pay?

|jester| You Crack Me Up
I don't know how the fuck your mind works
I hope your going to Las Vegas because spending a little time (not sure how much I could take) with you would have to be entertaining

Just make a regular submission after you hit the submit button it will walk you through the payment process

Yeah people shouldn´t be to gready $50-100 a year or so seems reasonable to me I think it benefit the honest webmasters making it easier to get listed.
The problem is when people put the fee way to high.

$50.00 to get listed at Tommy's? That's it? I wonder what's next, MicroSoft selling shares at a penny?

That has to be the best bang for the buck on paid listings out there right now.

You know what I think is cool, and Tommy probably expected a lot of people freaking out about having to pay, is that no one is. With all the people I see constantly whining about getting pretty much everything for free and wanting 100% of all revenue generated at sponsor programs, it is a good thing to see.

Kind of renews my faith in people a little that they are not adverse to paying for quality.|thumb

I'm in for that! .. I mean, that way all the sucky gallery builders, content wasters(!?) will give up what they do, and only hardworking webmasters will stay... sounds great to me!

p.s. I just wish ePassporte could finally unblock my account!!! anyone from ePassporte in here!?

saL

you know whats funny

around 2 maybe 3 maybe 4 years ago I came up with this idea

and I threw it out on a board... like sort of a what do you think about this thread
the responce I got was.......lets say, overwhelming negitive

so I was very nervous about doing this, Also I dont like to fuck with the general construction of Tommys Bookmarks

I want everyone to know that I will put all my resources into making this work and if anyone has any problems they should feel more then free to email me or post on this board

yep, I'd say there are much more people in biz nowdays, and you just need to filter the quality somehow if you want to run a quality website... this is the easeiest way...

saL

for real i dont mind to pay 50 bucks a year hell its nothing compair what you earn he send the traffic so thats no point to arque about, btw i did also do paid submitting at blue wave when it was in the hands of the old owner they didnt send much traffic but they did send good traffic, i never have a problem to pay for submission............so Greenguy when you gonna charge, i would pay|couch| because alot of webmasters wanna kill stu now|violin|

They are idiots. I had my account illegally used so I called and had the account frozen. Then I had FlashCash create a new account for me. Then epassporte froze that one too. Yes froze the New account and I quote "in case it got comprised too". LMAO at that, it's a new friggin' account number I said.

Long story short after about 3 weeks of waiting for the other charges to all be reversed, which they were, they finally transferred my funds to the new account and unfroze it.

Fast epassporte is not!

i know you mention it that time gg had a board at adultnetsurprise, i never thought it was a bad idea , hell whats 50 bucks a year .......................

I'll pay for an account next month when I've got some more money in my pocket. :) I was wondering if anybody has any thoughts about this idea: charging a small fee for individual submissions. It would add up to quite a bit more over the course of a year, but it could be a good way to get a submission linked right away, especially if someone doesn't have a full fee right now or make alot of free sites.

ce has that micro pay thing
a person could charge a couple dollars a submit

i still think to keep in mind , even you pay 50 bucks a year it wont mean you get listed, you still have to be with the rules and dont make shit sites or cheat, i think that needs to make clear when you pay for submission, i could charge money, but it wont mean you can submit what ever you want.rules are rules|violin| correct me if i am wrong

I agree. No cheating and quality sites. But as long as you keep with the rules I would think your sites would probably get listed. And pretty quickly too since there would be fewer submitters I would imagine. Tommy, excuse my ignorance, but what's "ce"?

$50 is too cheap. Make it $1000/yr and let's eliminate some competition!