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deformedreality
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Free Spore Ring Shroomery idea
#7109951 - 06/30/07 01:24 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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OK my theory is, that we could start a community project where we find a member who will hold large stocks of prints from everyone and distribute them out to people who pay 2 dollars. The 2 dollars will be used to send the prints through the mail "should costs like 39 cents.." then the rest will be saved up and the use of this save up money will be determined later "cause I'm fucked up right now and didn't know any ideas" something like "the money will be split up equally amongst the top 10 spore print donors and the person who keeps everything running at the end of each quarter year" The more you donate the more of a chance you have to split the profits, i hope that an incentive like getting free money would help get enough people to actually decide to make prints of their shrooms for those who don't have any shrooms to grow. What do you guys think? cause well once i start growing i want to spore print everything i can and donate them for less fortunate growers but I'm not seeing much action in all those free spore ring Europe and Canada so i think we should make a free spore print ring USA "and we only ship to the USA" If anyone would be willing to help set this up id be more than willing to donate to it as soon as possible *is working with b+, "A" strain, golden teacher, treasure coast, and r44. please give me some feedback on this idea, i think it would work, but just needs a little more structure work.
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deformedreality
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oh and id like to keep this within the shroomery community if at all possible. so maybe its a memeber who would be willing to hold onto a ton of spores and keep track of who is sending them all in and how many they have sent in. and could do the dirty work of reading requests and mail out shit with the money sent with the requests. than the money can be split between the top 5 donors, and if this works well there should easly be 100 dollars maybe more to split amonst the top 5. and this can happen monthly. of course after the guy doing all the work gets his cut. I want a place that i know is still up and going that i can donate my prints to and can even get some other types of prints from there too.
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I'm working with B+, Golden Teacher and R44, once i get 'em growin i'd be glad to donate.
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deformedreality
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me too, id donate all the time if this i guess "shroomery free print" system got started. and id hope that a lot of other memebers would do the same.
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The shroomy 1
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Count me in
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deformedreality
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thank you everyone who is in favor of this idea. Hopefully this thread will get a little more attention tomorrow.
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n2dEePe
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lmk, cause i need a print for 2 buks
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: n2dEePe]
#7110039 - 06/30/07 02:07 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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n2dEePe said: lmk, cause i need a print for 2 buks
and if this were set up correctly, than you would be able to and get one quickly. It would be a community project so i need your guys help here. Basically im trying to find a highly respected member/mod/admin who would be the person who will take notes of who donates what and how much and keeps the site updated on what is available and what isnt, someone who will recieve mail and send mail back out, someone who would be willing to split the left over money with the highest donor/s each month. Im still not sure whether or not it should be top 5 donors and worker get money or just the top donor and the worker. and who knows maybe the money could be converted to something completely different like to maintain this site and the admin could give out one month supporter accounts to the 5ish highest donors each month. oh and maybe we should just deal with half spore prints, so there is twice as many to give out. what do you think?
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if we sent an envelope to the guy who stocks all the prints with a SAE inside the envelope, then it could be a worldwide thing. since after all we have already paid the postage for it to be sent to us so its not much hassle.
i think the idea about a donation is good. an added incentive is always good.
i would definately donate a few prints
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MYSTIQUE
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Instead of starting another spore ring that wont get the donations it needs and just take them from the two that are barley making it. why not just donate to spore ring Canada or spore ring Europe that will ship to the states or anywhere in the world for only 2$. the Canada one is failing from lack of donations. There was a free spore ring in the states it closed and donated everything to the free spore ring Canada. Why start another one When there is already two that will send some to you.
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: MYSTIQUE]
#7110329 - 06/30/07 07:35 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Is spore ring Canada still open??? I went to the site the other day and there were no spores available...I know they were in trouble...There was a member generated spore ring years ago...Was pretty popular too...
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: Brillig]
#7110348 - 06/30/07 07:48 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I love the sound of this idea...
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moon_glue
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: MYSTIQUE]
#7110364 - 06/30/07 07:55 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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MYSTIQUE said: Instead of starting another spore ring that wont get the donations it needs and just take them from the two that are barley making it. why not just donate to spore ring Canada or spore ring Europe that will ship to the states or anywhere in the world for only 2$. the Canada one is failing from lack of donations. There was a free spore ring in the states it closed and donated everything to the free spore ring Canada. Why start another one When there is already two that will send some to you.
but we could encourage people with good grows to send prints, and prints would only be exchanged amongst shroomery members. we'd have the most extensive selection because of our fantic community.
you could have a print moderator, and a user print count/ rating statistics perhaps.
it would also add a cool social dynamic to the shroomery.
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You are not allowed to make any profit off of spore prints or spore syringes... here at the Shroomery, unless you are a Sponsor/Vendor... so that idea needs to be dumped right away.
There has been 2 Free Spore Rings in the USA since Ralph closed his original Free Spore Ring... both of those failed rather quickly. And one guy ran off with a crap load of prints that were donated to him... which I believe was his true motivation behind starting a Free spore Ring!~
Nothing personal...but I don't think I'd trust a newbie running a Free Spore Ring ever again.
If there was to be another Free Spore Ring USA... $1.00 is more than enough to pay for a stamp and envelopes. I know because I have given away around a thousand prints to newbies... over the years. and no...I'm not interested in running a Free Spore Ring!~ It's a royal pain in the ass!~
The Shroomery can not be involved with the Free Spore Rings... that would be a conflict of interest.
I'd like to see an upstanding member start a Free Spore Ring USA... since the Canadian and European ones seem to be having problems. But maybe the answer is sending them donations of prints instead.
There is a VVV free spore print VVV thread and a VVV free spore syringe VVV thread in the Marketplace forum... but that forum is not viewable to newbies til they have 90 days and 50 posts.
This thread is off topic... but I will allow it to stay here for the time being.
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: MYSTIQUE]
#7110385 - 06/30/07 08:10 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I agree with MYSTIQUE. Why spend effort to start a new spore ring when it could be better spent to support the ones that already exist?
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: Rhizoid]
#7110420 - 06/30/07 08:27 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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i agree with mystique and road
also the people above that said they will donate, why not just donate to the ones that need it and have been around for years??
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deformedreality
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I went to those free spore sites and well the free spore ring canada hasnt been updated since February 3rd, 2007, and the free spore ring europe hasnt been updated since may and its almost july, these signs of inactivity makes me not trust that any spores/orders will even get to them. I thought it would be better to have a smaller version of a FSR and have it just for members of the shroomery. I guess it would work to charge just one dollar or even less if possible.
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Re: Free spore ring USA!! [Re: Roadkill]
#7110468 - 06/30/07 08:50 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey, Road', just an idea:
If you did want to include "extra money" (the $2 or even $5 for that matter)...
Could go in a paypal fund, etc. The money at the end of each month (or quarter) would be used to buy a "shroomery gift card".
This gift card could buy a contest prize or given to the highest print donator. The gift card would also only be able to be spent at a Shroomery sponsor.
That's my solution to the "no making money unless you're a vendor" problem.
What do you think about that, Grey-Beard?
How many requests do you think one person/ring would receive in one month?
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deformedreality
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sounded good to me, i dont really care about the prize personally, id just like a better way to get and donate spores and figured that would be a good way to get people to start donating.
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