Reduce, Prevent, and Remove Scars & Stretch Marks

[Shannon]

And even for a single stage products; as I could have averted buying the school sub (it doesn't work for me - I'm very much hoping the next upgrade will include a destroying of procrastination and having a glue memory - and I'll get it for 50% off because of the upgrade).

What you propose is that I pay you $10 for feedback on a product that is between $9 and $19 in price per copy, and then give you a 50% discount on an upgrade. It might surprise you to know that the forum is here for people to provide feedback for me without me having to pay for it, specifically so I can keep the prices as low as possible, and so that the feedback I get is reliable, believable and unbiased. That's why the 3G stuff was reduced in price to $9 per copy, when it was $15 per copy before. So you're already getting a discount. And the 50% off is only valid for upgrading certain 6-stage sets. On top of which, I'm going to stop building yearly updates to those programs, at least for the next couple years, so I can finish building the base catalog.

It would be nice if I could charge nothing and have everyone win, but I can't.

Even have the registered users chime in - it could be some sort of system where people would rate the reviews/journals and would even take into account spelling and grammar.

I'm not following that one at all.

And based upon the feedback from the users (if the review was deemed useful (etc) or not) the reviewer could even get a small percentage of the purchasing price back - however, this could deem every review to be over the top and deem every product as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Paid for reviews are useless reviews, because nobody believes them. That's why we have a forum here, so people can report on what they experience in an environment that is reality based, not "I paid you to say what I want to hear". The Internet is full of "reviews" that are nothing more than paid advertising. Half the point of the forum is that people give honest, ongoing feedback without being bribed for good stuff to say when something needs work. That would destroy the value of the forum for advertising purposes, and for feedback on my work that helps me improve it.

But heck, I would be interested in reading reviews on a product that Shannon has said himself that he doesn't think is quite up to par - but is still in the shop

If something isn't working as well as I would like, that doesn't equate to it being "not quite up to par". That means it's not doing what my personal goal for it was, based on current feedback. But, feedback from two or three people hardly tells me the world would respond the same way. So, if it works for the majority of people who use it, I leave it in the store.