Fez' explanation covers most of it. Our subscriber numbers at this time of year compared to our numbers during football season are vastly different. Obviously, many more bettors want access to Fezzik's information during football. That makes perfect sense. But those customers who don't support this board year-round should have to pay a higher price. Even $99 per month doesn't approach what many of the services charge and that's just for their picks, so we felt it was a good number. The grandfathering is a nod and a thanks to all of you who do support this board year-round. You will get special "founding member" coding soon and, depending on how things progress, we may extend this frozen price indefinitely.
To sum it up, we love the fee-based idea for keeping out the crud. We think we are at a fair-value point right now and we're willing to continue running the board just as it is with our current clientele. That's why we're keeping your prices the same. If others come on at the new prices, it will put us in a different revenue position that will allow us to reinvest into the effort and make it even better. Either outcome is satisfactory for us.
Regarding some of the other questions. We are programming a prompt to let you know when your yearly subscription expires. And we have some thoughts about additional handicapping talent. But right now we like it with Fezz and Alf being the only house handicappers. We get good input from the likes of truushot, Prof Meyer, Tim Patterson, helmut, rickj, johnnetto, DiscreetCat, Custer, Flipper, Sixth Sense, charliej, RealWorldSports, and many others. It’s a pretty good roster as it currently stands. Feel free to comment further. We're listening.
