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Dear Life-Time Contributors,

As a person, I don't ever want to make this decision, because I am still day-dreaming that we are able to serve existing Life-Time Contributors for unlimited period, we are extremely confident about what we are offering to fans, it's epic, it's innovation, it's amazing, no other Private sports trackers on the net have more passion and dedication than us about offering the best to the fans. So we thought at least a good percentage of users would be convinced by the best service that we are offering and finally become a Life-Time Contributor, so we thought it was fine to charge a very small amount of donation and let users enjoy for unlimited period since many users will donate to support us.

As a site owner, my best priority is to build the best service and keep this site alive, and after 3 years of running this site, we are facing a situation similar to NBA lockout.

Here are some infos that can wake me up from day-dreaming as a person:



Donation Part
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* ONLY 1% of the users here have donated to support this site (despite the fact that our service is amazing)

* 90% of them are Life-Time Contributors

* The Majority of Life-Time Contributors donated at $80 or $90 or $100

* About 10% of the Life-Time Contributors donated at $125, $150

* Very few Life-Time Contributors donated at $200

* a few dozen Life-Time Contributors donated at $60 during the 2014 Christmas Promotion

* There are basically no donations from NEW users since we have closed free signup for security reason.


Extra Donations/HELP from Existing Life-Time Contributor
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99.9% of existing Life-Time Contributors do NOT even bother to drop a few dollars every now and then even if they are so satisfied with the site and service, somehow we are always trying to bring extra, extra, extra to users without extra charge, we are kind of upset about this, but I understand, it's human nature, we all want to save, and don't want to spend anything if we are not required to, and it's part of the deal that we won't require Life-Time Contributor to donate more.

One more sad fact is we creditted every Life-Time Contributor at least 2 invites, hoping they will invite friends who might be interested in donating to enjoy our service, it will help us grow, it will help us get more donations, it will help this site stay top-notch, without needing Life-Time Contributor to donate any cent out of their pocket. We have mentioned the importance of recommending users to donate for multiple times, unfortunately, it looks like people only care about themselves being able to enjoy the service. We rarely see Life-Time Contributors invite people to join and donate.


Site Cost Part
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If I tell you it's around $2K, you would be shocked and you probably would call me liar too.

We are not the traditional private trackers that put hope on the free cappers/uploaders to cap for the site and their users and put up a donation goal of $100 or $200, and then there is nothing else the site staffs would do.

The outcome is usually pretty bad, nothing is reliable, nothing is efficient, nothing is awesome, slow upload speed, slow download speed, slow release, lacking full coverage, no development of more sports, because it costs to develop more sports/stuffs.

So, who in the blue hell is gonna donate their money to trackers like this? Let's be realistic, my friends!


Instead, we are innovative, we are reliable, we are FAST (Sorry, it's FASTEST in the world if you are talking about NBA, NHL, MLB, EPL), within 6 minutes after live NBA game is concluded, you can expect 540p and 720p 60fps perfect rips of each NBA game to be released here and well seeded at super fast speed! Call it amazing if you want, but you are using the wrong word here, because we have been doing it like this since 4 years ago (even before we created this site), call it lengendary my friends. We have FULL coverage of basically every sport/competition that we cover, also you could be benefiting like a charm from our RSS feed (auto download) whether with a PC or seedbox

We can not tell you every detail about how the donation is spent, but you guys should imagine there are cost from servers (NOT just one, multiple ones), subscriptions to a lot of services, website maintainance, site protection, capping programs, development of more sports, capping resources (man powers, cable subscriptions, hardware setups), seedboxes, VPNs, proxies, etc.


Time and Effort Part
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Despite the money part, technology part, we still have to work our ass off almost every day to make sure everything is running smoothly, make sure you guys can enjoy without issue.

99% of you guys won't know the behind-the-scene story, but please keep your imagination about how much work and time we have put into this site.

Also, we are extremely helpful and friendly as long as you ask politely and want your issues resolved, which is something that you can not expect from staffs on other private trackers.


NOW to sum it up:

This site is dying without funds, we are only getting random $15 or $35 donations from limited-time contributors who have their contributor status expired, and this is not gonna work considering the cost is around $2K per month. The cost will be around $2K even when it comes to offseason. So, this site could be dead at the end of 2016 if the donation situation remains like this.

We are saying sorry to existing Life-Time Contributors, you may complain, but your complaint does NOT save the site that is benefiting you, instead, we need your understanding and we appreciate your donations that have helped the site survive for 3 fantastic years, we are serious about running the site for more years, so you guys can keep enjoying for more years.

So, putting a reasonable expiration date to existing Life-Time Contributor is the only reliable way to save this site.

What you need is reliability, which is what we are offering, putting a donation goal per month isn't a reliable way, at least for this site, we don't want to claim the site is dying because last month's donation goal isn't reached.

But don't worry, we are not gonna expire your Life-Time Contributor status instantly, we still do it fairly, making your donation always worth it for sure.


If you donated for Life-Time Contributor at:


* $60 - $100 (does not include $100)

Your Life-Time Contributor will be set to expire 1 year after the date you became Life-Time Contributor.

Actually, most of these types of Life-Time Contributors have used their Contributor for about 2 years, because they donated early.

If your Life-Time Contributor status has lasted for more than 1 year and 6 months or your expiration date is due in just 2 months, no problem, we will let you enjoy until the end of this season, we will set your Contributor status to expire on 2016-08-01.



* $100 - $150 (does not include $150)

Your Life-Time Contributor will be set to expire 1 year and 6 months after the date you became Life-Time Contributor.

If your Life-Time Contributor status has lasted for more than 1 year and 6 months or your expiration date is due in just 2 months, no problem, we will let you enjoy until the end of this season, we will set your Contributor status to expire on 2016-08-01.



* $150 - $200

Your Life-Time Contributor will be set to expire 2 year after the date you became Life-Time Contributor.

If your Life-Time Contributor status has lasted for more than 2 year or your expiration date is due in just 2 months, no problem, we will let you enjoy until the end of this season, we will set your Contributor status to expire on 2016-08-01, otherwise, we will set your Contributor status to expire after actual due date.



Some important notes
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- You total amount of donation made could be bigger, but we only count the donation amount that you made for the Life-Time Contributor.

- Contributor status expiration date is viewable from your own profile (just click on your username)

- Total amount of donation made is viewable from your own profile (just click on your username)

- We will start setting the proper expiration date of existing Life-Time Contributor within the next few days.

- Cappers will remain the same Contributor status.

- Life-Time VIP members are not affected.



NOW for the compensation:

Donate $75 for one year contributor status and your account is subject to enjoy $65 for yearly contributor in the future.

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http://hd-sportbits.org/forums.php?action=viewtopic&forumid=2&topicid=2072