Micropayments Revisited Again For The Last Time

It would be 44 if goddam BitPass would accept an eCheque.

In Response to gormster (#30881):

See, Jon? There it is: the distant-future means of making micropayments work - eCheques! You could have made an extra quarter in the last six months if BitPass were a bit more adaptable. I bet you're really kicking yourself now, what with your micropayment naysaying. Goddam, how foolish we all look.

But what did Comixpedia have to say about the far more pressing issue of micropimentos [goats.com]?

i bought one...at least it was funny. i'd recommend picking the comics up in some form.

I'm wondering who this "Last Tim" is that's showing up in the discussion titles. Tim the Enchanter?

Or could it be a place: the Last Tim Horton's to accept micropayments? Maybe all other Tim Horton's offer a combination of merchandising and free donuts.

In Response to mkinyon (#30891):

Fair liege, know you not the legend of the Last Tim? The good lad was the 17th in a line of Tim's stretching back to the days of Rollo the Good and Albert the Generally-Above-Average. The fourth in his line (if you don't count the bastards, of course), was indeed Tim the Enchanter, who could summon up fire without flint or tinder and who told the noble King Arthur of the cave of Caerbannog [mwscomp.com].

But as the years passed and the generations continued on, The lost of the Liune of Tim grew less glorious. Tim the 12th was known to howl at the full moon while wearing a penguin suit, long before exploration of the Anatarctic had revealed the existence of penguins to the simple townsfolk. Tim the 14th spent several years seeking to convince people that he was a cucumber, urging others to use him in a salad.

When Tim the 16th, a local merchant, had a son, he knew that it was time to bring an end to the shameful line. And so he brought the child out under the first full moon, and he declared, "This babe I hold in my arms shall be the last Tim! He shall carry on after me as a merchant, but he shall make so little money that he will not continue the family line himself. Remember the Tims, and pay homage to the Last Tim!"

And the people of the town followed these insturctions. The poor people of the town patronized Tim's business as best they could. Because they were poor, they paid in small amounts, whenever they could.

It it was thus that micropayments were born. And the Last Tim, recipeint of these micropayments, was still broke.

In Response to Llamarama (#30892):

Well, I found it amusing...slightly. But I also think you've gone right 'round the bend, Probably somewhere in the vacinity of The lost of the Liune of Tim.

In Response to daubergoat (#30898):

Yeah, that should have been "the lot of the line of Tim." I found several of the other typos before I posted it.

And working on grad school applications, as I'm doing today, can certainly drive one around the bend and back again. Though many of my friends would say I went around it long ago.

In Response to daubergoat (#30898):

But I also think you've gone right 'round the bend
Like a record player, right round [goats.com], baby right round?

So, I wandered by the web site a week or so ago and bought some t-shirts, looked to see if there was a new book out, etc, which is what I usually do when I come back to a web comic I like after a long time away. And I went to the minicomics page and bought a paper copy of each. But not an electronic copy. Why? The page says:

"Purchase this electronically via BitPass and save $1 on the paper version"

and below that paper copies are listed as $4 each. I read that sentence as meaning I'd save $1 *versus* the paper copy. Meaning that for $3 I could have an electronic copy, or for $4 I could have a paper copy. I paid the extra $1 because I like paper copies. It didn't occur to me that for $3.25 (plus extra registration fuss) I could have *both*.

Anyway, micropayments may be doomed anyway, but different wording would have helped you sell another few copies in my case.

Out of curiosity, how many copies of the paper version did you sell?

In Response to porcupine8 (#30945):

Ahoy! Therein lies the question.