I'm afraid you don't quite get my point. Let me illustrate it to you:
Imagine host one charges $1 per month:
If they are using PayPal to process payments, then $0.30 must be subtracted, as well as 2.9%. Therefore, the host is left with $0.67 each month.
Or alternatively, if they are using 2CheckOut to process the payments, then $0.45 must be subtracted, as well as 5.5%. Therefore the host is left with $0.50 each month.
If you look at this from an annual perspective, then the amount the host ends up with is $8.04 or $6.00 respectively.
Next consider host two charges $15 per year:
After deducting processing fees, they end up with $14.26 or $13.73 respectively. You also need to consider the fact that selling a plan like this monthly may mean that the customer decides to cancel after two or three months.
If you can't understand why I said that no serious host would make an offer at $1 per month paid monthly, especially when it looks that bitsnbobs expects live support, you are obviously very different to the vast majority of the population, who I believe would be of the same opinion as me.
nsuk said:
No serious host will even consider posting an offer for $1 per month, which leaves you with school kids trying to make a quick buck
I guess you therefore come under your
own defination.
1) 15/12 is effectively $1.25 per month, but we don't offer a monthly payment option so it is $15 per year.
2) TJR Networks has been operating since January 2005, not as long as some other hosts, but at the same time, significantly longer than most of the hosts offering hosting here and long enough to prove that we have no intention of making a quick buck and shutting down.
3) In addition TJR Networks is not operated by school students.
In the end it is up to the individual host to decide how it wants to run its business. However, ultimately it is the hosts that disappear after a few months that charge $1 per month.
