Jump to content

big giant circles

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,465

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by big giant circles

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Bumpity Bump.

    Got the headphones I bought. Holy crap, what a difference listening to good music is, especially uncompressed music. It's like an orgasm for the ears.

    Donate to OCR to keep this mad love going! <3

    I know, right?! I remember when I first bought my first pair of high-end headphones. I was using like a $30 pair of Sony something-or-others before, and I always thought they sounded ok, but then when I tried out my Q40's, I was like "WHAT???!!!" They sounded so good. :)

    Anyway, great job folks, I'll see if we can get an update on our total.

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I believe that you can still buy anything that Amazon carries. If it's not directly in the OCR Amazon store, I think it will simply direct you to the full site. Maybe DJP can chime in, but I think as long as you go through our link OCR should still get the credit.

    *edit* OCR gets 6% of the sale from our aStore and Zzounds (does not cost extra!). And with direct donations, OCR gets 80%. The other 20% goes to buy Larry soap, because he smellz. ;)

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I just ordered some studio gear from Amazon using our affiliate link.

    Mogami Gold cables. Rawr. :)

    *edit* It's worth noting that I needed these cables to use my new monitors, so I was going to buy them anyway. Coincidentally, guess who had the best price? That's right, I got the best price out of all the sites/stores I searched on, and OCR is getting a cut of that sale, and all I had to do was buy it through our Amazon store link.

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks guys!

    Also, as I said last year, if you can't afford to donate (or won't, whichever the case may be) that's fine. I'm not asking for any of the reasons why anyone doesn't. I realize that some people don't have jobs or have prior financial engagements that make finding spare money difficult.

    I am 100% ok with that.

    But here's the deal, if that's the case, then no problem, but I'd also rather you just keep your reasons for not donating to yourself, and continue to merely spread encouragement for others to contribute. Enthusiasm is contagious, just like excuses are. Even if your excuses are, well, excusable and sincere (and I'm sure for those of you who have said as much that they truly are) I think it's just more effective to simply bypass stating such and remain encouraging and enthusiastic.

    I hope this doesn't come across as any kind of berating, if you interpret it as such, rest assured that is absolutely NOT my goal. I'm just saying that the positive spiral effect is absolutely critical to the success of this fundraiser, so let's just keep this thread moving in that direction :)

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well I haven't found a job so I can only spare what I have, which is.. $5.. I'm not that experience with Paypal but I'll see if I can figure it out. I've had that $5 on there since January.

    That's awesome man. And that's really the whole point of this. If we can just get a fair amount of people to chip in $5 or $10, we wouldn't need people to feel obligated to donate $100 or $500 (yes, we received a $500 donation in the past). It's awesome, and I hope that individual knows just how grateful OCR is, but it definitely would be just as awesome if we could just get 100 people to donate $5.

    I hate to sound like a life insurance commercial, but $5 once in April boils down to about 1.3 cents a day for a year. Considering all the music, albums, interviews, forums, contests, etc that OCR offers, that's a pretty sweet deal. It's certainly not required, and we're not about to charge subscriptions, but DJP has worked pretty hard to keep this place up and running without resorting to that, or even alternatives like those invasive, mandatory pop-up ads that you have to manually skip past, considering Google Ad revenue isn't nearly what it used to be years ago.

    Again, I'm not trying to guilt-trip anyone, my intent is to just put some basic facts & figures into perspective, and then again, appeal to the better (and more generous) nature of each who reads this :)

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Enthusiasm is what we need guys, spread it! This thread should be constantly getting bumped with it, it's contagious!

    I can't help but be a little bummed that I see a lot of the same people donating year after year. Mad props and gratitude for them, they're doing way more than their part. I know we've got not only a ton of lurkers (many of which who have also stepped out into the light long enough to donate) but we have a LOT of super active forum members who spend literally hours each day/week on these boards who haven't donated a cent. You know who you are, and you have a right to not donate, but if there's any way we can appeal to your better nature, please think about throwing a few $ toward the site in exchange for providing you with one of your primary daily/weekly activities.

    Thanks everyone! Let's keep the month going hot!

    April is Support OCR Month 2010!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks so far to all the donations we've received this far, guys. At the moment I type this, we're sitting on $780, from 29 donors. Over 25% of that was from 3 people. So it's definitely nothing to sneer at by any means, but at the same time, at this rate, we're going to end the month with maybe $1500. Compared to 2009, or even 2008, that's a pretty big step back.

    I know I didn't set any official goal, but I know we can still finish the month strong! Remember, many hands make light work (or however that's said in "donation" form).

    Rather than everyone relying on a few people to donate $50, or $100, or $150 (onward), if everyone just throws in $5, then we can still afford to eat, and OCR will continue to thrive.

    Last year, we had a user make a youtube video. Anybody else interested in throwing something together for this year as well? Doesn't matter if it's just you and a webcam or something with more sheen to it, every effort helps. I'll be adding a sig that you can all wear shortly as well.

×
×
  • Create New...