OCCUPY GAIA :: SAY NO TO BUYING GC

[Lady Kayura]

Valheita

Lady Kayura

Valheita

Lady Kayura

Valheita

LabTech David

EDIT: If Gaia ever closes down, I bet they will blame the users for not buying GC, I could see that happening. rofl

It wouldn't be the first time. sweatdrop

They can't blame the users that spend cash that helps keep the site running, now can they.

Sure they can, it'd be their fault for not spending enough.

I don't see them doing that.

They've done it before.

If you say so.

[Valheita]

Lady Kayura

Valheita

Lady Kayura

Valheita

Lady Kayura

They can't blame the users that spend cash that helps keep the site running, now can they.

Sure they can, it'd be their fault for not spending enough.

I don't see them doing that.

They've done it before.

If you say so.

I've edited the post to make it clear I was talking about an implication, rather than a flat out them saying it.

However, I'm sure you remember them doing it.

[Yorugami]

Hey guys I just want to leave this for anyone to read.
It's something Gaia should really learn and take heart.
Quotes from the awesome Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezo:

"If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter, I think, in any business. It certainly matters online, where word of mouth is so very, very powerful."

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

"We have so many customers who treat us so well, and we have the right kind of culture that obsesses over the customer."

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

"We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can."

"You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, ‘Let’s be simpleminded. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. Let’s do it.’"

"I love people counting on me, and so, you know, today it’s so easy to be motivated, because we have millions of customers counting on us at Amazon.com. That’s fun."

"You can do the math 15 different ways, and every time the math tells you that you shouldn’t lower prices because you’re going to make less money. That’s undoubtedly true in the current quarter, in the current year. But it’s probably not true over a 10-year period, when the benefit is going to increase the frequency with which your customers shop with you, the fraction of their purchases they do with you as opposed to other places. Their overall satisfaction is going to go up."

"You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us."

"If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later."

Source: HERE

You can be a successful business but at the same time be both cheap and efficient.
Because right now...Gaia is everything but.

I cheer you guys on! T___T
I would sign but I haven't actually spent any cash because of RL reasons..
just don't have the capability to.

[Yorugami]

p.p.s. You guys should also take a look at this PETITION TO BE HEARD AND RECOGNIZED BY GAIA which also asks for your testimonial about your experience in Gaia and why you want to change it for the better.

Because Gaia needs to know what we want and not only to stop buying Gcash
but something to change the way Gaia is doing it's business now.

[wingbutt]

Yorugami

Hey guys I just want to leave this for anyone to read.
It's something Gaia should really learn and take heart.
Quotes from the awesome Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezo:

"If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter, I think, in any business. It certainly matters online, where word of mouth is so very, very powerful."

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

"We have so many customers who treat us so well, and we have the right kind of culture that obsesses over the customer."

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

"We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can."

"You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, ‘Let’s be simpleminded. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. Let’s do it.’"

"I love people counting on me, and so, you know, today it’s so easy to be motivated, because we have millions of customers counting on us at Amazon.com. That’s fun."

"You can do the math 15 different ways, and every time the math tells you that you shouldn’t lower prices because you’re going to make less money. That’s undoubtedly true in the current quarter, in the current year. But it’s probably not true over a 10-year period, when the benefit is going to increase the frequency with which your customers shop with you, the fraction of their purchases they do with you as opposed to other places. Their overall satisfaction is going to go up."

"You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us."

"If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later."

Source: HERE

You can be a successful business but at the same time be both cheap and efficient.
Because right now...Gaia is everything but.

I cheer you guys on! T___T
I would sign but I haven't actually spent any cash because of RL reasons..
just don't have the capability to.

You should post this in the next AtA.
Maybe even get some other people to post it a few times with you.
Because the staff needs to take a gander at this and learn a few important things. mad

[Yorugami]

Wingbutt

You should post this in the next AtA.
Maybe even get some other people to post it a few times with you.
Because the staff needs to take a gander at this and learn a few important things. mad

I never make it to the ATA.
But you guys are welcome to do it if you wanna. O v O
I did make a sort of thread about it in the GCD.

[Ninina]

Yorugami

p.p.s. You guys should also take a look at this PETITION TO BE HEARD AND RECOGNIZED BY GAIA which also asks for your testimonial about your experience in Gaia and why you want to change it for the better.

Because Gaia needs to know what we want and not only to stop buying Gcash
but something to change the way Gaia is doing it's business now.

Thank you! For the previous post and for letting us know about this petition.

[wingbutt]

Yorugami

Wingbutt

You should post this in the next AtA.
Maybe even get some other people to post it a few times with you.
Because the staff needs to take a gander at this and learn a few important things. mad

I never make it to the ATA.
But you guys are welcome to do it if you wanna. O v O
I did make a sort of thread about it in the GCD.

I'll try to remember to post it in there on Monday, then. 3nodding I think it's a really important chunk of advice. Maybe if it hits the staff hard enough it'll make its way to the management.

[Yorugami]

Ninina

Thank you! For the previous post and for letting us know about this petition.

Thanks guys! O v O The more people know
the more we can hope Gaia will listen to us!

Wingbutt

Yeah..I really sure hope so because aside from all the Flynn's Booty and MP inflation.
Gaia really has gone crazy with pricing things in their shop. X__x
Even other online games don't charge 1000$ but we do?
Geez.

[Kink-hime]

I've been on Gaia since 2004, and I still remember when 20k was a lot for an item classified as 'rare' (example, I bought Penguin Slippers for 16k back in the day). I've never been an avid buyer of Gaia Cash, but I have sunk at least $100 into GC in the past year or so since I started taking on paypal commissions. I never seem to have enough for the 'good items', but if there's an evolving item I like than I might splurge on it.

While the Offers are a great thing, there never seems to be any available when I go to do them. It doesn't matter what time it is during the day, but that seems to be the case with everyone. The other offers are there to complete as well, but even those can only go far and you don't always qualify for them.

I probably won't be purchasing any more Gaia Cash for a while, and I would like to see Gaia focus more on items that work like EI's and what not for Gaia gold. There is a serious lacking of gold shop updates, and these flash sales for Gaia Cash items are getting out of hand.

[Corinth Maxwell]

cat_stare As I've already stated in the petition thread, I didn't willfully contribute any of my hard-earned money to have to put up with the kind of bullshit they're shoving in the faces of me, my friends, and my family here today. I did so because I expected this site to continue to get better and better for EVERYONE who joined, and not just the über-rich who can afford to burn away 500,000,000 Gold and/or hundreds and/or thousands of real-life dollars in a single day on a bunch of pixels that could, at any given time, disappear without a single hope of ever being refunded for them. cat_stressed

[Careful Knives]

Hello. Where do I sign?

I registered back in 2006. I'm a foreginer so back then I couldn't even afford paying for MC items, had to save gold from posts and poll voting to buy an MC. For example it took me and two of my friends to save 20k to buy my sister a Gwee dragon for her birthday.
I have never obtained Gaia Cash by using real money, the only way for me to get is is to complete some of the offers- like watching a free video. To say it simply I'd be loosing money by changing my own currency into U.S dollars to obtain Gaia Cash and in the end paying more than a person from the U.S and I refuse to do so just because I'm not American.
The existence of Gaia Cash pains me because it's a constant reminder that I'm poor and less valuable user than U.S citizen with a credit card.
Another example - every time I try to save gold for buying item on a Marketplace it gets insanely expensive in a matter of days, sometimes hours. Dazzling Platinum Halo was at 3 millions yesterday. Today it's 5 millions and I'm sure nex week the price will be twice as high. It's impossible to earn such amount of gold without buying items for Gaia Cash and selling them for the highest price. You cannot win with the Gaians who use real money and the difference between those who can do that and those who cannot is vast.

[BPM626]

I'm just cross-posting from the petition thread because I'm lazy, but I still wanted to get this out there where it will be seen. Thanks for starting all this up From Love to Pain!

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As a newish member, I feel like I could never ever even have the chance at catching up and getting a decent amount of gold/account worth. The deck is stacked against me. Under other circumstances, I would not be opposed to dropping small amounts of rl cash here and there on gaia. As it is now, the moment I (hypothetically) buy GC, it's already worth less. I've already wasted money.

I won't stop doing the daily chance videos, because those don't screw me over. I didn't spend anything more than a few seconds - something I'm willing to part with. But I will not buy GC knowing it is going to be worth less and less gold/items as soon as I pay. I'd love for gaia to turn around and be more new-user friendly again. There should be options for us poor folks as well as the people who can buy GC regularly.

[Pnyuu]

no banners?

[from love to pain]

Pnyuu

no banners?

Only the few people were generous enough to make for us. =]