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I don't have any answers/suggestion on how to make money to support Deckbox. In this day and age, people get so much for free (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc...) it's gotta be like pulling teeth to get money from folks.

Personally, I would easily pay $20/30 a year for use of the Premium site. It's really tough to justify $70 though. Man I wish I could tell you that 4/5 people would pay $20 and that 1/5 would pay $70.

Ok, I do have one suggestion. Kickstarter (or one of those type things) for the mobile app. If you get the money, great. Make it. If not, forget about it. Let someone else do it. I'd prefer just a mobile-friendly version of the site over a special app anyways.

http://deckbox.org/users
Found 77647 results.

http://www.techspot.com/news/42607-wiki … -2015.html
"The site serves between 400 and 500 million unique users per month and has 18 million articles between all supported languages. As of December, the site had some 80,000 "active editors" -- those who make five or more edits a month."

Wikipedia has a slightly larger user base.

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The ideal trade would be 1 Cryptic, 3 Snapcasters and 2 Spellskites. The Cryptic and probably 2 Snapcasters are most important.

It would be nice to have the card information back on card pages (oracle text, etc...). Helps a lot with older cards who's text have changed and/or are really hard to read from the image.
example: http://deckbox.org/mtg/Tawnos%27s%20Cof … collection
I'm assuming the card info was removed so the page could work as the new card pop-up, but maybe the pop-up and the full page could just be different. The tabs and drop-down boxes are good for the pop-up, but I think the full page would be better just having all the info displayed (no tabs, no drop-downs).

Having the permanent card search box on the card page would be nice too. The Ctrk-I feature seems great on pages that normally don't have search, but adds a keystroke in this case. It's also pretty tough to Ctrl-I on mobile. Drop downs, tabs, pop-ups, etc are all pretty difficult on a mobile phone. So having all the info just laid out straight on the full card page would help that as well.

Yes, that is what the developers are saying. They have stated that they looked into everything and the Marketplace was the only way to sustain the site. But it's hard to just accept that with the limited knowledge we as users have of their business. Per the Deckbox Trade Index:

"15036 users playing Magic the Gathering have logged in the last 2 months."

If Deckbox was a subscription based service and even 1/3 of those users actually paid for the service at $2 a month, that's $10k.

That looks pretty sustainable and decent for a part time business, but there are plenty of factors involved I know nothing about so my view is limited. I, by no means, fault them for wanting to make the website sustainable financially and make a profit off of their work. They definitely deserve it. Personally, I would just much rather pay a few dollars a month for the trading service than have the Marketplace.

If my understanding is correct, the Deckbox team never expected TCG to ignore them if they started competing with them. They simply thought they'd have a little time to use the TCG API to get they're own pricing data going.