Taina
Well-Known Member
Hehehe it should say i will never pay again, for info that i can get for freeTaina, hate to put you on blast but you DID pay! LOL you paid $6.50!
Hehehe it should say i will never pay again, for info that i can get for freeTaina, hate to put you on blast but you DID pay! LOL you paid $6.50!
I say make your money, if people are willing to pay for info. then there's nothing wrong with other people charging for said info. Some people are willing to pay instead of searching for the info. they're looking for.
Isn't LHCF a product of other, defunct hair boards? I just remember reading that the creators of this board were members of other boards, did not agree with how things were being run and felt as if they had an opportunity to create something that works a little better. Thank goodness for us, because where would be had someone not taken the initiative to take what they've learned to create this wonderful site? Well, I guess you could be on other hair boards- but still, LHCF, to me sets the standard and I am grateful for its existence.
I don't care who you are, but that's funny right there!No, it doesn't bother me at all. And here's why:
Person A: Psssst. I can get you from NL to MBL in 2 weeks - for a small fee, that is.....
Person B: How much?
Person A: Half your paycheck
Person B: Do you take Paypal?
Person A: Normally I don't, but for you?...........I'll make an exception.
In the above conversation, who walked away mad? Neither of them! It really IS a victimless "crime".
Isn't LHCF a product of other, defunct hair boards? I just remember reading that the creators of this board were members of other boards, did not agree with how things were being run and felt as if they had an opportunity to create something that works a little better. Thank goodness for us, because where would be had someone not taken the initiative to take what they've learned to create this wonderful site? Well, I guess you could be on other hair boards- but still, LHCF, to me sets the standard and I am grateful for its existence.
I don't see anything wrong with asking for donations. I have given to a few blogs that I frequent every day and can find a wealth of information.
I won't pay $10 a month to (((insert name of website here))) because I'm already at the desired length and have pretty much all the information I need. If somebody wants one on one service, especially since some people ignore newbies here (don't look at me) or tell them to use the search option instead of answering their questions, then I can see where someone can get frustrated and want to pay that fee.
At the end of the day its up to each individual to pay or not to pay.
Taina, hate to put you on blast but you DID pay! LOL you paid $6.50!
ITA with the bolded. That is just a pet peeve of mine. You've been giving the goods this long.....I would just make new vis and let the old ones stay up since they've been viewed THAT long.I pay here because I know it takes time to manage a site and hosting isnt free I dont feel like the owner is doing this for profit
However with the site in question the fact that I can no longer visit said person fotki, see youtube videos all things that were once free! I dunno it kinda bugs me... I feel like that individual is trying to make a profit off of me for advice...not a product. And Im too far along in my journey and know too much about my hair to pay for advice.... esp when you wanna charge more than LHCF.
but honestly im only one person and it only bugs me! im sure plenty of ppl are fine with it and if they like it I love it! Your just not getting my money as others have said B4!
Good point. Variety is the spice of life and allows for different tastes and needs to be catered for.
I can understand some 'high demand' members needing to charge for their 'services' through a different platform - i.e. giving advice, doing product reviews, spending hours updating this and that album etc.
One former member I know of (who I suspect some posters are referring to) was a hair guru when I joined LHCF, so it wasn't really like she was on here stealing lots of info and repackaging it as her own. She was on here primarily helping other people since she was into hair care years before joining LHCF, and she has still been helpful to me even though I am not a member of her site. I can watch her Youtube vidoes for free too. I guess people like her feel they can provide for a niche for whom LHCF is not sufficient, which is understandable.
What I may have a problem with is current members refusing to answer a question without a subscription to their site, especially on info they evidently learn(ed) from here. That's a bit iffy to me.
That was deep. I LOVE IT! lolI'm mad that i just typed out this lonnnnng response, then my laptop went haywire. but to sum it up.... If you take the "emotion" of our love for hair out of it and think of it from an intelligent perspective, i think it is perfectly fine to sell your knowledge. afterall people have been doing it for ages. When you went to college and purchased your science book...do you think the author created the theory of relativity? or other scientific theories? Do you think the author of ur math book made up the math principle of 1 +1 = 2? No...he just simply invested years upon years researching, writing, organizing and editing the millions of pages of info into understandable paragraphs...thus he should be paid for his effort. and besides not one person on LHCF created the concept of a cowash, or protein/moisture balance, etc etc, nor did Shamboosie create this concept...we all was taught via word of mouth or by reading, so it's not like this is proprietary info. Soooo if someone wants to spend 5yrs researching lhcf and reading 45,000 pages of content and take the time to summarize it into a few paragraphs, then they definitely deserve the money for their efforts. Now for the ones who are asking people to pay to watch their haircare journey... that seems a little ridiculous... BUUUUT to each her own.... I am certainly not knocking the hustle.
I can even see myself someday taking the time to build a site with healthy hair facts because i have it in my heart to spread the word of healthy haircare to ALL black girls/women. Each and every single one... not just the select "lhcf elite". (and i had another point i made, but i totally forgot it. lol)