[Suggestion] another way to earn for Pakgamers

[Wolfy]

I was roaming around the internet and suddenly stopped at a point where I saw an amazing way to earn enough money in order to keep up with the running expenditures of the website like pakgamers, so I thought I must share the idea with all of you.

Lets make it a very simple exercise for everyone to understand though we can talk on numbers but most of the people wont be able to understand the Einstein way so lets keep it a bit simple here, now if you see at the bottom of the forum page you can view a tab of TOP 10 stats of the forum and there is header with the name “Most Popular Forums” this shows 2 forums “Computer & Hardware and Game console & Accessories” of Market place are being used mostly on Pakgamers and my suggestion/idea is about Market place mainly.

Most of us will agree that Pakgamers have provided us with the amazing platform where we can buy and sell things without any hassle or with least hassle I must say, so the idea is about earning through market sections by introducing game-points/game-coins system.

What is the idea behind game-points/game-coins system.
Idea behind game-points/game-coins system is to give you a effective and efficient way to buy and sell your precious items under pakgamers umbrella.

What features does it offer

• You can bump your thread whenever you want by just spending your game-points/game-coins without waiting for lengthy bump threshold.
• Make text Bold in your title thread in market section
• Make text Red/Blue in your title thread so people don’t skip your precious thread.
• Make your profile name glow with the unique color by spending few game-points/game-coins.
• Get a tab of Trusted-Seller on your profile.
• Trade dispute facility
• You can now advertise your products ( that’s some idea if built properly can make hell of a money) just spend your few game-points/game-coins for 15 day period.
• Become a premium seller get your own market place.

Now since I am just a Pakgamer user I have no idea how Pakgamer deals with premium sellers and how does it charge them inorder to continue their premium seller membership, so I cant answer to other questions that I have in my mind inorder to complete this whole jigsaw puzzle, questions like.

• How to get game-points/game-coins from pakgamers.
• What benefit will it give to premium sellers
• How to handle dispute transactions ( [MENTION=2126]Jshak[/MENTION] bro you been giving this service for free which people took for granted this is the time you should start charging for your consultations )
• And many more…

You see my idea is about capturing those individuals who are making their healthy business by selling/buying stuff on pakgamers, the whole idea is just a snap of what I saw on the other website (name not to be disclosed in public) and shared with you, the idea is very raw and I am sure it can be optimized to benefit pakgamers at the end.

Again its not my idea, I have seen it somewhere and it clicked hard in my butthead so my 2cents after thinking what happens when there is no PG

 

[Jshak]

About charging hmmm, i will put in an example of what this nation is doing. I've clearly mentioned in many of my threads when ppl proceed for a deal, inquire about someone or if any doubt add an escrow, pay him reasonable for his service ( escrow dependent ), they ignore it deliberately and when they encounter problems they come running here. I would be safe than sorry. Members even do not bother out of courtesy. They go blank for no reason, not pointing any fingers, this is what i observed on the internet. Neeki kaar aur dariya may daal

Secondly, if u write some rules or disclaimers for members to understand, they argue or ignore it. This is the irony of most of the members on the internet. They feel it is a playground for them, they do not have anything to do in the reality. In other words, what ever behavior ethics you been learning offline, do reflect in your daily norms of life.

I seen your idea is a good to add in one of the features for future, but this is not the solution to get finances , no offense. I will see ppl moving to other classified sections on the internet. Premium is the only solution right now to get the server cost on break even. Anything beyond is a miracle. All i care is that PG last's forever.

 

[saffwan]

Well I have another suggestion. Every single unique id on PG MUST give 10rs for it to run. And we will have to give it after every 3 months. You see, even if every member pay only 10rs, PG can have tons of finance to run.
And if members don't pay, their id will be locked until they do so!

How is it? I think every member will be willing to pay 10rs to PG, and if they can't/don't, then they seriously don't deserve to use it as well

 

[abobobilly]

Plenty of awesome ideas can be generated. Say whatever you want, it all falls down to having a system like PayPal here.

Let me explain. For game points to be truly effective (in helping PG's financial crisis), they'll be backed monetarily. Life is getting busier for most of the people just trying to stay alive, they won't be wasting any time in banks to transfer nominal amounts for PG dealings.

However, the idea sounds great and i really appreciate your effort for mentioning it here.

 

[saffwan]

Plenty of awesome ideas can be generated. Say whatever you want, it all falls down to having a system like PayPal here.

Let me explain. For game points to be truly effective (in helping PG's financial crisis), they'll be backed monetarily. Life is getting busier for most of the people just trying to stay alive, they won't be wasting any time in banks to transfer nominal amounts for PG dealings.

However, the idea sounds great and i really appreciate your effort for mentioning it here.

How about EasyPaisa?

 

[kamran saeed]

there should be an easy system of collection then i am sure most of the members even they donate 10 rs per day or a week then i think it will work.many members are willing to suppoert but the current system they cant donate bcz either they dont have paypal or dont want to go to bank for this

 

[abobobilly]

How about EasyPaisa?

Again, it requires people to go out & do it, in which case its not much different from a bank, Unless one has a Easy Paisa Account, which is only possible if the user has a Telenor SIM.

I don't own a Telenor Connection. Okay so what if "I" get a Telenor SIM just for Easy Paisa, fine by me. But its not about me is it. Its about the people overall. And i for one, don't expect people to get a Telenor Connection Just because they need to support PG.

I hope you get the point

 

[saffwan]

Again, it requires people to go out & do it, in which case its not much different from a bank, Unless one has a Easy Paisa Account, which is only possible if the user has a Telenor SIM.

I don't own a Telenor Connection. Okay so what if "I" get a Telenor SIM just for Easy Paisa, fine by me. But its not about me is it. Its about the people overall. And i for one, don't expect people to get a Telenor Connection Just because they need to support PG.

I hope you get the point

Yes I do get the point. Then what else can we do?

 

[Blastwave]

Right

Everything should be made easy and comfortable for you.

How difficult is it to go out and deposit money in the bank?

Just love to whine and never contribute han?

 

[abobobilly]

Right

Everything should be made easy and comfortable for you.

How difficult is it to go out and deposit money in the bank?

Just love to whine and never contribute han?

In ideal conditions, you can expect people to do this, go out to deposit the amount. But the reality says otherwise.

Like it or not, banks can be worse time wasters sometimes. (Unless you do everything online). I have personally dealt with almost all the banks including the very low level "Microfinance" banks, upto Habib/UBL/Std.Charterd/Askari/Faisal/Meezan etc. And even to deposit 1000 rupees, you may have to wait upto 20 minutes before your number blinks up the screen.

I am sorry but i always think the "negative" side first. Its what comes with the nature of my specialty.

And in this situation, the primary and most effective negative factor is "TIME", which people just don't have these days.

 

[JunaidS]

In ideal conditions, you can expect people to do this, go out to deposit the amount. But the reality says otherwise.

Like it or not, banks can be worse time wasters sometimes. (Unless you do everything online). I have personally dealt with almost all the banks including the very low level "Microfinance" banks, upto Habib/UBL/Std.Charterd/Askari/Faisal/Meezan etc. And even to deposit 1000 rupees, you may have to wait upto 20 minutes before your number blinks up the screen.

I am sorry but i always think the "negative" side first. Its what comes with the nature of my specialty.

And in this situation, the primary and most effective negative factor is "TIME", which people just don't have these days.

I agree with you here. I don't know about others but I have VERY terrible experiences with banks. The bank employees are very lazy and least interested in catering the clients. They are busy chatting with each other, sipping tea and eating biscuits. Last time I went to a bank (Faisal) to make a deposit, I had to wait, at least, 5 minutes at the counter while the counter lady finished her tea. That was after waiting 15 minutes for my turn.

 

[Wolfy]

I agree with you here. I don't know about others but I have VERY terrible experiences with banks. The bank employees are very lazy and least interested in catering the clients. They are busy chatting with each other, sipping tea and eating biscuits. Last time I went to a bank (Faisal) to make a deposit, I had to wait, at least, 5 minutes at the counter while the counter lady finished her tea. That was after waiting 15 minutes for my turn.

lol no i cant buy that reason...

I am a banker and wasted 10 years in banking atleast but never heard of anyone waiting for more than 10 min on a comfortable sofa or a chair, besides if you are living in some extreme rural area where there are only 1-2 bank branches ... in that case they may show you this kind of attitude well nvm I dont want to go in detail but banks like SCB have a timer to entertain customers and its below 3 minutes in peak hours unless you deliberately want to go and deposit money in their main branches which are mostly located on II chundrigar ( if we talking about karachi)
[MENTION=61090]JunaidS[/MENTION] can you please name the branch you are talking about, if that actually happened what you talking that you wont find that lady on that very seat again that I can ASSURE you.

As far as the idea is concerned it require lots of backend work and matters like depositing money is too small problem to discuss i guess.

 

[JunaidS]

Well, it did happen. Whatever I said above was based on my personal experience and wasn't meant to offend anyone. I don't know about the timer thing you are talking about, haven't seen that in any bank I've been to in Islamabad. If you don't believe me, that's totally up to you The person I quoted was saying the same thing that I did which was that one has to wait for up to 20 minutes before the numbers blinks up on the screen and he also mentioned SCB in his post. Maybe, things are different in Karachi.

 

[abobobilly]

I didn't expect the 'bank employees' to get the blame here. :\

I was purely talking from people's perspective. I can understand the Bank Employees that their job is tremendously hard. And i salute them that they try their level best to remain efficient in serving the customers, and to make them wait less. If someone is working for 5 hours straight, i would cut him some slack and will/should let him have his/her tea (i.e. take a break for a couple of minutes - I mean, its perfectly a'right if they need it to get back on the peak efficiency).

Now ofcourse there are some bad experiences too.

There is some motivation level to be concerned with. If someone is hell bent on helping someone, (s)he will in any case.

Lets just get back to the main topic shall we.

The system suggested in opening post, is not at all easy to implement. Finding ways to do this can be a tedious and cumbersome task. However, we surely can discuss it with the team and find out more about it.

Thanks