Hi Jean-Marc,<div><br></div><div>As long as you've purchased the item you can continue to re-download the item as many times as you need. Your transaction is saved in your profile so once logged in you can re-download items via your dashboard.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is no download expiry for purchases.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">So a buy can download as many times of only for a period of time?<br>
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Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Jean-Marc,<br>
> Yes. A seller can update their sale file for an item and a buyer can<br>
> re-download the item. This works today.<br>
> In the future, we will add notification services so that if you buy an item<br>
> and it is updated, you will get an email or note next time you log onto the<br>
> website. We also plan on adding traditional social networking features like<br>
> "following" a seller to see when they list new items as well as "groups" so<br>
> people can find hackerspaces near them and what other locals are up to.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Tom<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Would a buyer be able to download patches or update the software for free?<br>
>><br>
>> say I put some source for sale some people buy it later on some one<br>
>> finds a major bug and I fix it<br>
>><br>
>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
>> ---<br>
>><br>
>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi Darcy, thank you for your response!<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Darcy Whyte <<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> The site looks nice.<br>
>> >> 25%? You might find that wanting 1/4 of sale amounts will provide<br>
>> >> significant friction to adoption (for buyers and sellers).<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I understand and agree. Once we are running for awhile we will have<br>
>> > some<br>
>> > knowledge of our costs and plan on scaling our cut accordingly. We'd<br>
>> > rather<br>
>> > claim 25% up front and bring it lower in the future than vice-versa and<br>
>> > be<br>
>> > accused of bait & switch. Out of interest, considering the service<br>
>> > offered,<br>
>> > what would you consider to be a fair percentage?<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> It doesn't have any measures for authenticity (ebay has reviews, web<br>
>> >> pages<br>
>> >> have in-degree). How can buyers and sellers have as much confidence as<br>
>> >> they<br>
>> >> have with ebay without those measures?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > The state of the site right now is "minimal viable product", so a lot of<br>
>> > features are missing but planned. Buyers will be able to rate items,<br>
>> > and a<br>
>> > seller's rating will be a weighted average of their item's ratings. As<br>
>> > of<br>
>> > right now a logged-in user can comment on an item which gives a simple<br>
>> > means<br>
>> > to provide feedback, but a lot more is planned.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> If a person were to list a product for sale on their own Web site, why<br>
>> >> would your Web site sell more? Especially given that having a Web site<br>
>> >> is<br>
>> >> either free or next to nothing and you keep all the revenue.<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > We offer a few benefits compared to doing it yourself:<br>
>> > - We are actively marketing this website. Our success is derived from<br>
>> > your<br>
>> > success, so we are trying hard to drive customers to our site, to buy<br>
>> > your<br>
>> > product.<br>
>> > - Marketplace visibility. You will gain exposure by having your items<br>
>> > listed alongside other similar items.<br>
>> > - Simplicity. You want to spend your time designing and building<br>
>> > things,<br>
>> > not writing PayPal integration code.<br>
>> > - Security. Items purchased with our service are only downloadable by<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > buyer. The payload content is stored on Amazon's S3 servers and without<br>
>> > a<br>
>> > generated download key, access is denied.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I clicked through to the "Domain Name Finder" product at your site.<br>
>> >> What you've done there is avoided putting the name of the product in<br>
>> >> the<br>
>> >> Title Metatag. You put your own buyline there instead. You also didn't<br>
>> >> put<br>
>> >> product name or information in the H1 tag. In fact you have a blank H1<br>
>> >> tag.<br>
>> >> With that situation, it reduces the chance that someone can google the<br>
>> >> product successfully.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks! That is completely a bug. I've added it to our immediate TODO<br>
>> > list. We need to fix our SEO, I completely agree. You should see a fix<br>
>> > for<br>
>> > this in the next 48 hours.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> So what would be the reason someone would list on your site rather than<br>
>> >> just make a simple site of their own?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > The list I provided above enumerates what I see as our advantages. It's<br>
>> > a<br>
>> > good question!<br>
>> > Cheers,<br>
>> > Tom<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Darcy<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> >> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> I'd like to introduce the community to a website I've been working on<br>
>> >>> with a few friends. I would love to hear your feedback on the idea<br>
>> >>> and the<br>
>> >>> site, <a href="http://www.tugbits.com" target="_blank">http://www.tugbits.com</a> .<br>
>> >>> Our dream goal is to help people quit their desk jobs and pay their<br>
>> >>> bills<br>
>> >>> doing what they love, making things.<br>
>> >>> TugBits.com is a digital marketplace for makers. You upload your<br>
>> >>> design<br>
>> >>> files, list them for sale, and collect money via PayPal when your item<br>
>> >>> sells. Likewise, you can use the site to find quality, reviewed<br>
>> >>> designs<br>
>> >>> suitable for printing on your 3d printer, milling on your CNC, running<br>
>> >>> on<br>
>> >>> your Arduino, etc. Also suitable would be e-books, schematics, source<br>
>> >>> code<br>
>> >>> libraries and tools, etc. Only after the PayPal transaction is the<br>
>> >>> buyer<br>
>> >>> able to download the files. There are no physical items sold on the<br>
>> >>> TugBits<br>
>> >>> store, only files.<br>
>> >>> Our goal is to help talented makers easily profit from their hard<br>
>> >>> work.<br>
>> >>> We do not want to replace the existing "free/open source" model, but<br>
>> >>> we<br>
>> >>> want to augment it. We think that if you can get paid for your work it<br>
>> >>> will<br>
>> >>> compel you to go the extra step and make it that much better. Market<br>
>> >>> driven<br>
>> >>> innovation.<br>
>> >>> Registering and listing items is free. We charge 25% of your gross<br>
>> >>> revenue and bill monthly. Depending on our costs and community<br>
>> >>> feedback<br>
>> >>> this number is probably going to change, but it's similar to the costs<br>
>> >>> associated with putting an app on an app store or a musician listing<br>
>> >>> with<br>
>> >>> iTunes.<br>
>> >>> Currently you can register on the site and list items for sale, which<br>
>> >>> is<br>
>> >>> what I would love for any of you interested to do. We are in the<br>
>> >>> final<br>
>> >>> stages of getting PayPal to sign off on the site, at which point<br>
>> >>> sellers<br>
>> >>> will be able to collect money and items will be able to be sold.<br>
>> >>> Please visit the site and let me know what you think! Even if you<br>
>> >>> hate<br>
>> >>> it, please reply to tell me why.<br>
>> >>> Thank you,<br>
>> >>> Tom Burns<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>><br>
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