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Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:26 am
by iamkoolerthanu
Concise description:
  • If you gift premium to someone you should get the three month premium Bonus that you would have gotten if you referred that person

Specifics/Details:
  • If you gift premium to someone, you also get three months premium

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
  • More people will gift premium and the site will make more revenue. Think about it, if you refer someone, you get the bonus as a way for the site to thank you that you made them more money. Isn't giving the site money a way to do the same thing?

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:42 am
by greenoaks
go ahead and gift me 1yr membership and collect your bonus 3 mths membership.

i'll be so grateful i'll buy you 1yr premium and collect my bonus 3 mths.

we each get 27 months for the price of 24 & there are no new members.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:15 pm
by DoomYoshi
Maybe there could be a random chance of getting the 3 months? Although anytime something is random, people begin to feel cheated.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:28 pm
by blakebowling
This won't happen, for the exact reason greenoaks stated above.

I'll leave this topic here for the time being, incase it develops into something more plausible.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:41 pm
by eddie2
would be a lot better that when gifting you could split it down into batchs of 3 month periods. i refuse to gift premium now because you have to give 12 months. and it is hard to pick one clan member when you have a couple in need of it.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:01 pm
by iamkoolerthanu
greenoaks you make a good point that I haven't thought of. Maybe, if you gift someone premium, they now become some that you referred to the site. This way, the next time they actually buy premium, if they decide to, then you will get rewarded. Instead of getting rewarded right away you only get rewarded after they spend money at the site

And eddie, that would be nice also, but as a separate suggestion

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:34 pm
by 40kguy
eddie2 wrote:would be a lot better that when gifting you could split it down into batchs of 3 month periods. i refuse to gift premium now because you have to give 12 months. and it is hard to pick one clan member when you have a couple in need of it.

I dont know why you cant do that, you buy 12 months, you just split it up.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:12 pm
by blakebowling
I can see gifting seperate amounts happening (as long as you'd still be required to purchase a year at a time). But as kooler said that is a seperate suggestion.

How would it work if more than one person gifted to the same user?

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:28 pm
by iamkoolerthanu
Good question, I will try and think of a solution blake

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:34 pm
by Mr_Adams
blakebowling wrote:I can see gifting seperate amounts happening (as long as you'd still be required to purchase a year at a time). But as kooler said that is a seperate suggestion.

How would it work if more than one person gifted to the same user?



first gift.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:07 am
by iamkoolerthanu
I like that idea. The first 'gifter' would get the bonus, and then the second gifter would get the bonus if the gifted player bought premium for a second time

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:21 am
by jefjef
Good idea. Probably won't go thru though. You will have buddies buying each other premium and each will get 15 months for the same 25$.

Now this idea would work if you gift premium to an account that never had premium.

Perhaps you should suggest a site contribution award for those that gift premiums.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:29 am
by iamkoolerthanu
jefjef wrote:Perhaps you should suggest a site contribution award for those that gift premiums.

That is an idea as well... People that gift premium should get something in my opinion

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:17 am
by karelpietertje
greenoaks wrote:go ahead and gift me 1yr membership and collect your bonus 3 mths membership.

i'll be so grateful i'll buy you 1yr premium and collect my bonus 3 mths.

we each get 27 months for the price of 24 & there are no new members.


Maybe only if you give a member his/her first premium?

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:25 am
by karelpietertje
greenoaks wrote:go ahead and gift me 1yr membership and collect your bonus 3 mths membership.

i'll be so grateful i'll buy you 1yr premium and collect my bonus 3 mths.

we each get 27 months for the price of 24 & there are no new members.

bytheway where'd you learn arithmetics? 12+3 is 15 where I come from.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:39 am
by greenoaks
karelpietertje wrote:
greenoaks wrote:go ahead and gift me 1yr membership and collect your bonus 3 mths membership.

i'll be so grateful i'll buy you 1yr premium and collect my bonus 3 mths.

we each get 27 months for the price of 24 & there are no new members.

bytheway where'd you learn arithmetics? 12+3 is 15 where I come from.


:D i forgot how many months there are in a year and i was quite drunk by that time as it was almost 2am for me.

Re: Gifting Premium act like a Referral

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:34 pm
by chapcrap
eddie2 wrote:would be a lot better that when gifting you could split it down into batchs of 3 month periods. i refuse to gift premium now because you have to give 12 months. and it is hard to pick one clan member when you have a couple in need of it.


This should really be implemented. Buy a year at a time and be able to give out 3 months at a time. Or charge $25 for a whole year and if people want to only buy 3 months at a time then charge $10. Seems like a normal subscription policy to me.