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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
So I bit the bullet today and signed up with them. They had a free
coupon for a month but they got wise now and made you get a credit card on there (which I do not like but I see why they do it). So I went through all 7 Harry Potter movies and down the cast lists and typed in probably a hundred or so different names. I think I found THREE potential ones on there (that I didn't have or had potential for a success as most were newly pending). I think of the three, only ONE had a real probability of working. With all that work I did to yeild even three? Not sure if 5 bucks is worth it. My next question is are people reporting their successes there? Are they reporting their pendings? I saw a ton on there I tried and nothing was on there (0 RTS, 0 successes and 0 pendings). I did add a few but still, I am sure people tried these? so what IS the main problem over there? Or is it not them and just nobody IS signing these days? It's a shame too. I've noticed a trend ni the Harry Potter graphs. Not many signing now. ESPECIALLY kids. Anyone under 23 is not signing. Maybe a small handful (like Ginny Wright or perhaps one or two of the older ones) but really, it looks like they all don't want anything to do with Potter. It's my guess in 10 years, they'll be back; begging for someone to remember them. |
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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
On 22 Mai, 21:46, Sue H wrote:
So I bit the bullet today and signed up with them. *They had a free coupon for a month but they got wise now and made you get a credit card on there (which I do not like but I see why they do it). * So I went through all 7 Harry Potter movies and down the cast lists and typed in probably a hundred or so different names. *I think I found THREE potential ones on there (that I didn't have or had potential for a success as most were newly pending). *I think of the three, only ONE had a real probability of working. * With all that work I did to yeild even three? *Not sure if 5 bucks is worth it. * My next question is are people reporting their successes there? *Are they reporting their pendings? I saw a ton on there I tried and nothing was on there (0 RTS, 0 successes and 0 pendings). *I did add a few but still, I am sure people tried these? so what IS the main problem over there? *Or is it not them and just nobody IS signing these days? * It's a shame too. I've noticed a trend ni the Harry Potter graphs. Not many signing now. *ESPECIALLY kids. *Anyone under 23 is not signing. *Maybe a small handful (like Ginny Wright or perhaps one or two of the older ones) but really, it looks like they all don't want anything to do with Potter. *It's my guess in 10 years, they'll be back; begging for someone to remember them. Hi Sue, i do not know which names you searched, but i wanted to give you some first hand tips on how to make full use of StarTiger. First of all, since you do look for the Harry Potter cast, we do feature a seperate "Harry Potter" category. To access this category: - Login to StarTiger - Select "Browse" from the top menu - Select "Performing Arts" from the categories - Select the "Selected Movie/TV Casts" subcategory - Select the "Harry Potter" subcategory Currently the category contains 112 cast members of the Harry Potter movies. (Non-Members can also preview the category content at http://www.startiger.com/category_Ha..._id071602.html ) The category will give you a quick starting point - Please note that if a name you are looking for is not listed in this category, the celebrity may still be listed (but simply not categorized in the Harry Potter category yet). To see if this is the case, search for the name directly. Second, if a celebrity you want to write is not listed, you can submit an address request, and we will try to find one. You can find more information on address requests in our help section at: http://www.startiger.com/help.php?id=30 and http://www.startiger.com/help.php?id=31 Third, we now also provide a history summary for many agencies. This will allow you to see if someone received a response for other celebrities from the listed agency, and may give you an idea of how good the agency is with forwarding mail. We recently updated and added a large number of current address details for more than 2000 agencies, sport teams, record labels & more, covering tens of thousands of celebrities. Since there are so many recent new address additions & updates, not all of them have been used yet, but we continually update these agencies to make sure the information is current and valid (e.g. just during the last 7 days nearly 20,000 changes, updates and additions were made to our database). And last, but certainly not least, please don't forget that we have a very active forum that you can use to discuss with other collectors, to ask questions and to find answers. Plus, if you have any questions regarding specific functions within StarTiger or how to use certain aspects of StarTiger, we recently updated our help section with a new "[Getting Started]" and more extended help topics (see our help section at http://www.startiger.com/help.php). And of course if your question is not answered there you can also contact us directly. I hope this helps you to make use the StarTiger Community more fully, See you around! Markus Geilfuss http://www.startiger.com The Autograph Community |
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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
Well for me, I am a problem because first, I am the one where a lot of
info could come from (I prefer doing my own research FIRST) so I usually get all the main people right away (whoever is apt to sign). I was on there yesterday with a free trial for hours. I looked up names individually one by one. I would probably keep the account one more month though, to harvest all I can... then what I'll do is try them. I tried almost every address you had on there in my past and see I got RTS's or pendings and you have nothing reported. but I didn't have time to annotate every new address or other addresses you did NOT have that I've tried and either got a success or RTS for or are pending (I did some I felt were pretty relevant etc). I really don't feel like I should pay to give YOU all the info I have. That doesn't make sense. I also felt like a lot of people are putting addresses on there for no reason, and not sure where they come from as nobody has ever tested them.... but are they really? I suspect they are and not reporting their results. That hurts the community. I did last night, for the first time, come across about 8 or so addresses that might be worth trying. However, I had not researched these yet first, so I am GUESSING probably 6 of them I could find right off. So for the potential of 2 addresses after spending 4 hours on there.... and the potential that those two will yield a success, it's not worth it. Do you see what I mean? It's not Star Tiger's fault. It's the people not reporting that are 1) putting untested addresses on there without intentions of ever doing anything after 2) people not really reporting what they are trying. (for the record, I probably added 30 Pendings the other day and 10 RTS's overall). But I was definitely NOT interested in giving you new addresses I found through hours of research that I just tried. I want my success first and that of Paul's and Friends groups first. You know, where everyone is AWESOME and not talking about one another. 3) there's a LOT and I mean a LOT of old info. I don't know how you could police this, so I can't fault the site. I see where there's a good job with plays and removing them when they expire (or other venues) but there are many, many addresses where the person left the agency YEARS ago. Recommendations. I don't know how much money Star Tiger makes. But you have to SPEND money to make money. When you have volunteers, that's well and good. But a paid position might be in order. Literally pay someone a salary to do a few things to improve your site and the potential for a money making site would be phenomenal. You could have someone out there researching plays. Or someone going through and calling agencies for current client lists (and then cross referencing those lists to the 'extra' people being reported at that same agency (so you can delete them). You need to have people researching addresses... verifying. Getting rid of useless info. You need to have people shooting you ideas like holding a contest or other "incentives" to get people to take a couple hours of their time and post info there (for example, a free month if you take your list and go through it and post at least 50 pieces of new information (whether it be RTS's, Pending, or addresses they forgot to report before, or scanning images). If you can track how many things people have submitted (don't know what your capability is), then you could do really well. Or start with 100 items (making it harder for first level) and then a second free month for those posting an additional 75 and a third month for those doing 50 (to make it more to your benefit, you can make it within a time limit; say a week, forcing people not to do it here and there, but to actually sit down and do it immediately). Now, because I am on a free trial and even if I actually pay for another month, I cannot simply report my successes anymore.... because most of those will take a lot longer before they come in. I am guessing a lot of people do this? So you need to make them stay. How I am not sure. I would probably be more apt to stay if more info was reported and I knew you did not allow people to talk about anyone. Tell them stick to the subject of collecting and no more. No name calling, no flaming. See, you can do what you want... you can boot people. Word on the street is the ones who cause problems are probably high contributors so you don't want to say anything. You really need to find a way to combat that. The only HUGE problems I have with your site are personal ones. 1) it's a closed off community that talks about other groups I hear without benefit of those others hearing stuff about them. That should be disallowed. NO TALKING ABOUT OTHERS if the others are not there to defend themselves. 2) You really should NOT have to pay for address information that is free, but I've been lightening up on this a bit after I see you do offer "other information" that is of some limited use. and finally 3) Once someone reports a success, you can't stop the rush of people writing which I evidenced a LOT yesterday, proving my theory... someone gets a success. Then 5 others report a success within a month or so of that, then you'll see a dozen pending ones after and then NOTHING from then on. This is telling me there was an onslaught (if that many reported, twice as many did not report anything as you know 75% of people are lurkers rather than workers) of mail and the celebrity is no longer signing. I guess there's nothing you can do about that, but I am a person who doesn't want to be part of that. I prefer smaller groups. HOwever, I am MOST happy to report RTS's, Pendings, other addresses I've tried, email addresses, scans etc. You need site statistics (like Ebay where you can track users etc and who's doing what). You need a complaint system where a person is flagged for being warned and then if a repeated offender of something, is booted. you need to take that info and develop it. Star Tiger is HUGE. It's on the verge of being something mega (and profit making) but there is only staleness as the design and rest of it isn't growing. Though I do appreciate INFO growing more than the looks; ease of use etc. Don't get caught up in the Ebay trap where you have to pay for too many upgrades that are not needed and then forced to pass that to the customer. Subtle, easy changes to keep people interested but stick with INFORMATION as that's what drove people there in the first place and will always be why they are there. (as I am writing this, I feel like I should start my own company.... LOL). I hope something here helps. Just my thoughts from my recent perusing (I have a few more films to go through and try too but not sure I will be around to report the successes). There are a few good things for a good researcher on Star Tiger. People who've uploaded photos help by identification. So if you have two people with the same name, you can look at what people have and figure out which address is more the probability. On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:51:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On 22 Mai, 21:46, Sue H wrote: So I bit the bullet today and signed up with them. *They had a free coupon for a month but they got wise now and made you get a credit card on there (which I do not like but I see why they do it). * So I went through all 7 Harry Potter movies and down the cast lists and typed in probably a hundred or so different names. *I think I found THREE potential ones on there (that I didn't have or had potential for a success as most were newly pending). *I think of the three, only ONE had a real probability of working. * With all that work I did to yeild even three? *Not sure if 5 bucks is worth it. * My next question is are people reporting their successes there? *Are they reporting their pendings? I saw a ton on there I tried and nothing was on there (0 RTS, 0 successes and 0 pendings). *I did add a few but still, I am sure people tried these? so what IS the main problem over there? *Or is it not them and just nobody IS signing these days? * It's a shame too. I've noticed a trend ni the Harry Potter graphs. Not many signing now. *ESPECIALLY kids. *Anyone under 23 is not signing. *Maybe a small handful (like Ginny Wright or perhaps one or two of the older ones) but really, it looks like they all don't want anything to do with Potter. *It's my guess in 10 years, they'll be back; begging for someone to remember them. Hi Sue, i do not know which names you searched, but i wanted to give you some first hand tips on how to make full use of StarTiger. First of all, since you do look for the Harry Potter cast, we do feature a seperate "Harry Potter" category. To access this category: - Login to StarTiger - Select "Browse" from the top menu - Select "Performing Arts" from the categories - Select the "Selected Movie/TV Casts" subcategory - Select the "Harry Potter" subcategory Currently the category contains 112 cast members of the Harry Potter movies. (Non-Members can also preview the category content at http://www.startiger.com/category_Ha..._id071602.html ) The category will give you a quick starting point - Please note that if a name you are looking for is not listed in this category, the celebrity may still be listed (but simply not categorized in the Harry Potter category yet). To see if this is the case, search for the name directly. Second, if a celebrity you want to write is not listed, you can submit an address request, and we will try to find one. You can find more information on address requests in our help section at: http://www.startiger.com/help.php?id=30 and http://www.startiger.com/help.php?id=31 Third, we now also provide a history summary for many agencies. This will allow you to see if someone received a response for other celebrities from the listed agency, and may give you an idea of how good the agency is with forwarding mail. We recently updated and added a large number of current address details for more than 2000 agencies, sport teams, record labels & more, covering tens of thousands of celebrities. Since there are so many recent new address additions & updates, not all of them have been used yet, but we continually update these agencies to make sure the information is current and valid (e.g. just during the last 7 days nearly 20,000 changes, updates and additions were made to our database). And last, but certainly not least, please don't forget that we have a very active forum that you can use to discuss with other collectors, to ask questions and to find answers. Plus, if you have any questions regarding specific functions within StarTiger or how to use certain aspects of StarTiger, we recently updated our help section with a new "[Getting Started]" and more extended help topics (see our help section at http://www.startiger.com/help.php). And of course if your question is not answered there you can also contact us directly. I hope this helps you to make use the StarTiger Community more fully, See you around! Markus Geilfuss http://www.startiger.com The Autograph Community |
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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
Hi Sue,
thank you very much for taking the time to compile such a detailed and well formed response! I do not know how much time you have spent within StarTiger so far and its development over the years. This is not the same website anymore that it was four years ago when we "went pay", and we have done continous steps to address the issues you have raised in your post. If this is ok with you, i would like to go through your post step by step and address each part you mentioned. Doing your own research is definitely the way to go! But StarTiger is not something that is "aside" from research. It can be and should be an integral part of your research. Start your search at StarTiger. If you do not like the information you get for a certain celebrity, continue your research beyond StarTiger. If you come across a better address, you can submit it to StarTiger (you can keep it private at first, if you want that - StarTiger allows you to submit addresses as private and make them public later on). If you don't, submit an address request. In any case, i suggest referencing any address you find somewhere else with our records. We also keep records of outdated addresses (of course marked as such!) for this reason - so that if you find an (outdated) address somewhere else, you can compare it and avoid it if it is indeed outdated. As for submitting information, there are many benefits for doing so. It's not just simply for reporting your response to other collectors. StarTiger is much more than that! First of all, you get complete collection management when you submit information. Everything you add is stored in your own personal StarTiger area ("MyStars"), where you can access it, update it, change it, search it and sort it by almost any criteria you want. You can also connect the information, e.g. you can add scanned autographs to your test results. This alone can be a tremendous time saver if you use it. Second, we also provide you with your own personal website, "MyCollection". With just a few clicks you get your very own, customizable website where you can present your collection - including to non-members! And the great part is: Everytime you submit something to StarTiger - be it scans, test results or similar, your personal website will be automatically updated. This, again, can be a tremendous time saver. MyCollection also comes with your own personal blog, and it will stay online even if you are no longer a member. You mention that you did not have time to annotate addresses; i believe this is mainly the case because you keep a seperate collection list, and would have to manually transfer this information to StarTiger, one by one. This would be completely different if you would make full use of all StarTiger has to offer. For example, if you join for a year, the cost per month will become almost neglibile compared to other costs in this hobby. A year is less than 10 cents a day. Imagine how much time you would save in terms of collection management alone. Submitting information to StarTiger is easy, as in most cases the address is already there. Simply click on "Mark as Pending" when you send a letter, and on "Add Test Result" when you receive a response. The current date is filled in by default, making it even faster for you to submit the details. When using the "Pending" feature beforehand, all the information you entered before are automatically filled in when you submit a test result later on. And again: By doing this you will have the benefits of a searchable, sortable, automatically updated collection management and your own personal collection website. Additionally, if you submit information for a celebrity, a "notice box" with this information will be shown to you when you visit the celebrity listing. This way, when not sure if you already wrote a celebrity and at what address, you simply have to enter the name in the search box and view the listing to get all the information. Third, and this is a rather new feature, you can create lists of celebrities you collect. E.g. if you collect a certain sports team or movie cast, you can create a list of all the persons you want to collect. And the good thing: The list will automatically show YOUR own personal, current status for each of the celebrities, based on your submissions. For example, if you sent out to 10 celebrities on your Harry Potter list and received back 8 responses, the list will automatically show "Success" for the 8 responses and "Pending" for the 2 remaining ones. This allows you to keep an excellent overview over certain areas you collect. Plus: To save you time, lists can be shared with other members, so e.g. you can copy a list from another member as a starting point. (there already exist several "Harry Potter" lists that you could use). There are more benefits to submitting information, but i will stop here for now because the text would simply get too long 1) putting untested addresses on there without intentions of ever doing anything after Adding untested addresses is not necessarily a bad thing, if they are valid. Of course this also depends on the definition of "untested" in this case. For example, we recently updated listings for almost 2000 agencies, teams, records labels etc, resulting in tens of thousands of new addresses (and tens of thousands of removed addresses as well). And we will continue to do these frequent updates on a much larger scale than we ever did before. Of course these new addresses do not feature a "test result" yet, as no one has written to them yet. But that does not mean they are completely "untested", as they are updated regularly - they just have not been "tested" yet for this particular celebrity in the sense that no one has written to the celebrity. Given that we now feature 178,000+ celebrities, it is only natural that not every celebrity is written to all the time. But again, we do our best to update all address records, and in the past six months we have made more changes, updates and additions than ever before. And we will continue to do so! 2) people not really reporting what they are trying. *(for the record, I probably added 30 Pendings the other day and 10 RTS's overall). *But I was definitely NOT interested in giving you new addresses I found through hours of research that I just tried. I want my success first and that of Paul's and Friends groups first. *You know, where everyone is AWESOME and not talking about one another. StarTiger allows you to submit an address with a "private" option set. This way no other member - except you - will be able to see or access the address. Once you receive a response, you can set the address to public with a simple mouse click. 3) there's a LOT and I mean a LOT of old info. *I don't know how you could police this, so I can't fault the site. I see where there's a good job with plays and removing them when they expire (or other venues) but there are many, many addresses where the person left the agency YEARS ago. Again, we are currently actively updating many, many address listings. New technologies which we developed especially for StarTiger now allow us to do this on a much larger scale than ever before, and make very active use of this. Should you notice outdated information of ANY kind, please report them to us and we will take care of it ASAP. To report or update an address: - Select "Edit/Update" from the listing menu - Select "Correct an Address" Recommendations. I don't know how much moneyStar Tigermakes. *But you have to SPEND money to make money. *When you have volunteers, that's well and good. *But a paid position might be in order. Literally pay someone a salary to do a few things to improve your site and the potential for a money making site would be phenomenal. You could have someone out there researching plays. *Or someone going through and calling agencies for current client lists (and then cross referencing those lists to the 'extra' people being reported at that same agency (so you can delete them). * You need to have people researching addresses... verifying. *Getting rid of useless info. * Yes, we are already updating agency/team/label listings and will continue to do so on a large scale. For example, in the first 5 months of 2008 alone, more than 210,000 changes have been made to the StarTiger database. Out of these we New Addresses: approx. 74,200 Removed Addresses: approx. 31,700 Of course we will also continue including more agencies and enhancing our technologies to allow for even better, more acurate address listings. And, of course, more members would allow us to hire some more staff for even more updates You need to have people shooting you ideas like holding a contest or other "incentives" to get people to take a couple hours of their time and post info there (for example, a free month if you take your list and go through it and post at least 50 pieces of new information (whether it be RTS's, Pending, or addresses they forgot to report before, or scanning images). *If you can track how many things people have submitted (don't know what your capability is), then you could do really well. *Or start with 100 items (making it harder for first level) and then a second free month for those posting an additional 75 and a third month for those doing 50 (to make it more to your benefit, you can make it within a time limit; say a week, forcing people not to do it here and there, but to actually sit down and do it immediately). We already to something like this. It's called the "Free Membership Giveaway". In short, we give away free memberships to contributing members in a monthly drawing. By submitting information you collect points - and the more points you have, the higher your chance of winning is. Now, because I am on a free trial and even if I actually pay for another month, I cannot simply report my successes anymore.... because most of those will take a lot longer before they come in. *I am guessing a lot of people do this? So you need to make them stay. *How I am not sure. *I would probably be more apt to stay if more info was reported and I knew you did not allow people to talk about anyone. Tell them stick to the subject of collecting and no more. *No name calling, no flaming. *See, you can do what you want... you can boot people. *Word on the street is the ones who cause problems are probably high contributors so you don't want to say anything. *You really need to find a way to combat that. This (user attacks) may have been true for a limited period in the StarTiger history, but we have since taken measures to ensure that this is not the case. Since this text is already running very long; if you are interested in further information i would suggest taking a look at our set of "basic forum rules" as well as the forum thread about the current warning/ban concept that went into effect at the beginning of this year (both are available in the "StarTiger Related" section of the forum. The only HUGE problems I have with your site are personal ones. *1) it's a closed off community that talks about other groups I hear without benefit of those others hearing stuff about them. *That should be disallowed. NO TALKING ABOUT OTHERS if the others are not there to defend themselves. I am not sure what you mean by this. Could you please clarify? If this is related to how user attacks within the forum are handled, i suggest taking a look at our current forum rules and warning/ban concept. *2) You really should NOT have to pay for address information that is free, but I've been lightening up on this a bit after I see you do offer "other information" that is of some limited use. It all depends on how updated you want the addresses to be. As mentioned earlier, we actively update addresses on a very large scale, and will continue to sort out addresses that are no longer valid. In addition, StarTiger provides you with a large number of features that you can find nowhere else and that can greatly enhance the way you collect and manage your autographs - the ones mentioned in this post are only some of them. We also continouly and actively develop StarTiger, adding new features, improving existing ones and just simply making collecting easier. There is also a huge part of StarTiger that you do not see as a member - The managing part, which allows us to do such a large number of updates every day. Keeping StarTiger up-to-date and the continous development of the platform is a full-time service that simply cannot be provided for free. Please also keep in mind that StarTiger is completely advertisment free, you will not be bugged with an flashing ads, annoying pop-ups and the like. When signing up for a full year, StarTiger costs less than 10 cents a day - compare this with all the information, features and advantages you get, and the time you can save. Just the personal website alone is something other companies would charge you more for. Plus - especially if you regularly send out requests - you will save this amount of money just by avoiding return to senders by cross-referencing your previous/other sources with StarTiger. You need site statistics (like Ebay where you can track users etc and who's doing what). *You need a complaint system where a person is flagged for being warned and then if a repeated offender of something, is booted. *you need to take that info and develop it. *Star Tigeris HUGE. *It's on the verge of being something mega (and profit making) but there is only staleness as the design and rest of it isn't growing. *Though I do appreciate INFO growing more than the looks; ease of use etc. *Don't get caught up in the Ebay trap where you have to pay for too many upgrades that are not needed and then forced to pass that to the customer. *Subtle, easy changes to keep people interested but stick with INFORMATION as that's what drove people there in the first place and will always be why they are there. *(as I am writing this, I feel like I should start my own company.... LOL). We already do this as well To access a members submission history, click on the name of the member (e.g. beside an address he submitted). A pop-up menu will open with several options which allow you to contacting the member, visit his personal website or viewing his profile. Select the profile to view scans and test results the member has submitted, or to view his trade list. We also have a warning/ban system in place which we use - you can find more information about this in the corresponding thread in our "StarTiger Related" section. Plus, for trades, we provide a rating system similar to eBay where you can give members positive (or negative) ratings for trades you made with them. I hope something here helps. *Just my thoughts from my recent perusing (I have a few more films to go through and try too but not sure I will be around to report the successes). There are a few good things for a good researcher onStar Tiger. People who've uploaded photos help by identification. *So if you have two people with the same name, you can look at what people have and figure out which address is more the probability. Yes, this is definitely true They can also help to some degree in verifying the authenticity of autographs you receive back. Especially scans of in-person autographs are a great help in this regard. This has been a long post and again i want to thank you for taking the time to compile and write your response, and for taking the time to read through mine. I hope i have answered all points to your satisfaction, and that my answers will help you to make full use of the resources StarTiger can offer you. Thanks again, Markus Geilfuss http://www.startiger.com StarTiger - The Autograph Community |
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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
Hi Sue,
thank you again for your response. I greatly appreciate your input and as you can see from my previous response, we already either provide features that give you the options you looked for, or have taken steps to address the issues you mentioned. In the end, you have to decide what is best for your collection needs. We currently provide the largest and most detailed celebrity address database online, updated daily with hundreds, often thousands of updates everyday; plus full collection management and your personal website are included with no extra fee. We have taken great steps, especially in the last 6 months, to provide all members with even more current, more detailed address listings and we will continue and expand this path in the future. As mentioned before, should you notice any outdated information, please let us know and we will deal with it ASAP. Since 2004 we kept our subscription prices extremely low, so that you can access all this for less than 10 cents a day - and we have kept adding new features and new options - and now can offer you more options and more daily updates than ever before. We have taken the decision to take a flat-fee model (pay once, access everything) from the start to allow every member to take advantage of all features from the get-go. By the way, your first of all and second of all statements are the same thing just worded differently. A storage area and website are the same? They are two areas: - MyStars for managing your collection - MyCollection for presenting your collection For more details, please take a look at our help section: http://www.startiger.com/help.php specificly [Getting Started] MyStars - Managing Your Collection [Getting Started] MyCollection - Your Personal Website In closing, may i ask you how much time you spend every week updating your address lists and managing your collection? Removing outdated addresses, adding new addresses? Now, please compare this with how much time the same thing would take/ would have taken using StarTiger. Not transfering your current lists to StarTiger. Not copying your previous test results. Just imagine, instead of creating these lists over the years, to have used StarTiger - you would have all your information online, fully searchable, fully sortable - plus of course, you would help others collectors. And they (+ StarTiger staff) would have helped you - e.g. by testing the addresses. Or by letting you know addresses that are no longer valid. And you would of course have your own personal website, automatically updated with every submission... = no more manual updates, which take time as well. That's the basic idea behind StarTiger. Making sharing the information easier. Making the hastle of finding addresses, managing address lists, managing your collection much easier. And allowing you to concentrate on the most fun part of the hobby: writing letters & receiving a response. I hope my answers have helped you to make better use of StarTiger and everything it can offer. Your initial question was if "StarTiger is worth the fee" - again, in the end this is your decision to make, for your personal collection habbits and prefences. We only try to provide the best service possible, and to improve with every month, every year. The only thing i wanted (and the reason i answered in the first place) is that you can make full use of your free trial before making the decision, knowning and trying out everything StarTiger offers. Maybe submit a few more responses, try out the system a little more. Check out "MyStars" and see what it can offer. Create your "MyCollection" page, customize it a bit and see what it provides. I also greatly recommend the "Getting Started" part of our help section, which provides a compact overview for most of StarTiger's features: http://www.startiger.com/help.php Despite being called "Getting Started", it's also a good read for members that already know most of the "basic" StarTiger features and would like to know more - after all, a lot has been added and improved over the last 4 years. And again should you come across information that you believe to be outdated - please let us know! It only takes a few clicks and a short comment, and we will handle it ASAP. And if a celebrity you want to write to is not listed, please feel free to submit an address request. If you have any further questions about StarTiger or its usage, please do not hesitate to check out the help section or if your question is not answered there, contact me via e-mail. Thanks, Markus Geilfuss http://www.startiger.com StarTiger - The Autograph Community |
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cost of Star Tiger: worth it?
In the end, you have to decide what is best for your collection needs. This is very true. Since 2004 we kept our subscription prices extremely low, so that you can access all this for less than 10 cents a day - and we have kept adding new features and new options - and now can offer you more options and more daily updates than ever before. We have taken the decision to take a flat-fee model (pay once, access everything) from the start to allow every member to take advantage of all features from the get-go. This is also true; price has remained the same and isn't that high... still have to work it out if it's worth it. It's not if I am only getting one or two good addresses every few months. We shall see. In closing, may i ask you how much time you spend every week updating your address lists and managing your collection? Removing outdated addresses, adding new addresses? Well, like your site, I keep ALL information. If it's old, I got by date. Anything more than three or four years old I would know not to use without verification. Now, please compare this with how much time the same thing would take/ would have taken using StarTiger. Not transfering your current lists to StarTiger. Not copying your previous test results. Just imagine, instead of creating these lists over the years, to have used StarTiger - you would have all your information online, fully searchable, fully sortable - plus of course, you would help others collectors. And they (+ StarTiger staff) would have helped you - e.g. by testing the addresses. Or by letting you know addresses that are no longer valid. And you would of course have your own personal website, automatically updated with every submission... = no more manual updates, which take time as well. I do all this on my own... so no difference for me personally I am afraid. Your site is definately good for newbie collectors and ones not doing this every day of their life practically. I am not saying that's a bad thing; on the contrary, you help a lot of people. If you have any further questions about StarTiger or its usage, please do not hesitate to check out the help section or if your question is not answered there, contact me via e-mail. Will do. |
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