This could use some elaboration.
Charge who? Your clients? Businesses trying to contact you? Everyone?
How? Do they have to pay before they can even send it? You send them a bill afterwards?
Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
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Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#12This could use some elaboration. Charge who? Your clients? Businesses trying to contact you? Everyone? How? Do they have to pay before they can even send it? You send them a bill afterwards?
Everyone who write to your public email have to pay. So basically new contacts. For friends and people you know you use your private email.
This is how a solution could look like: http://wrte.io
Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is actually the opposite. I want to know why people don’t feel comfortable charging to contact them via email.
I have no objection, in principle, to people paying to contact me by email. But there are quite a few people, organisations and mission critical bots I might like to receive email from that are unlikely to pay to send it, and whitelisting every email or domain that's allowed to contact me is more of an irritation than deleting unfiltered spam. I don't object to strangers paying but I am quite concerned at missing out…
Just to clarify: Do you think you could miss useful email if your public email has a paywall?
Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#14This could use some elaboration. Charge who? Your clients? Businesses trying to contact you? Everyone? How? Do they have to pay before they can even send it? You send them a bill afterwards?
Everyone who write to your public email have to pay. So basically new contacts. For friends and people you know you use your private email. This is how a solution could look like: http://wrte.io
I could see it being used. Lots of people get hundreds of emails a day being pitched to or asking for help. Charging people (even a small amount) might get people to put more effort into their emails.
Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#15I wouldn't say that it's "bad", but, personally, I don't think it'd be in my best interest to use a pay-wall.
Most of the emails I get are from people who want my money (vendors/businesses). But I get the occasional email from someone who wants to give me their money (a potential client). I wouldn't want to do anything that would stop a potential client from sending me an email.
Two other concerns:
1. The practicality aspect. If I'm requiring bitcoin, then the sender needs to be bitcoin-literate, which not everybody is. If I'm requiring a credit card, then the charge is too small to justify the merchant charges.
2. The branding aspect. Do I really want to be known as someone who charges for emails? I'm not sure that message would align with very many people's personal brand/image. I'd be more likely to wait on the sidelines until charging-for-emails is commonplace, then I'd feel comfortable joining in. But until that time comes, you might have a first-mover-disadvantage. This creates a problematic catch-22 for any SaaS/PaaS offering this kind of thing. (Few people wanting to be an early-adopter).
Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have no objection, in principle, to people paying to contact me by email. But there are quite a few people, organisations and mission critical bots I might like to receive email from that are unlikely to pay to send it, and whitelisting every email or domain that's allowed to contact me is more of an irritation than deleting unfiltered spam. I don't object to strangers paying but I am quite concerned at missing out…
Just to clarify: Do you think you could miss useful email if your public email has a paywall?
I'm sure I would... as a minimum there's password reset emails, payment confirmations & tickets, old friends and colleagues which I'd want to be certain got through to my primary mailbox.... which basically means my primary mailbox is widely publicised information anyway.
And most people have potential clients, casual acquaintances etc that would enrich their life by contacting them, but certainly wouldn't pay 0.1 BTC to do so, so I'm not sure I'd ever stick pay-to-email as a contact on a business card or website. Those people whose email addresses people would happily pay for tend to be able to pay for assistants to screen their primary contact email anyway...
Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
#17If you're a porn star it might work.