Proposal for a new model

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[wthepoo]

Well, if 10% of every sale (~3$ per sale) goes to a loan, this will make significantly less than ~300$ every 10 sales. I also want to make sure no-one can suspect me to keep money for my organization. If people make loans on their own, there is no risk there.

I've been in touch with Premal, Liz and the engineer in charge of opening the Kiva system with an API. I am rather optimistic that the model i proposed can be set up in the first months of 2009.

That's really good news, mig! And I agree with your rationale.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

[rinkuhero]

Well, you could always be transparent about the number of sales and provide a link to your kiva account so that they can see the loans being made, to reduce suspicions like that, but I see your point. I'm doing it the easier way, myself -- I sell shareware games online, and give 10% to Kiva, and so far nobody has been openly suspicious of it. In practice I actually give more than 10%, since it's addicting, but 10% is a good bottom line I aim for.