Trial By Ip?

Discussion in 'Customization & add-ons' started by XUnleash, Dec 4, 2010.

  1. XUnleash

    XUnleash aMember Pro Customer

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    Was hoping if someone could see if this was possible. Basically im looking to find a way to stop members from resubscribing to the site over and over again to get the trial time of a product. These are the few options i had.

    1) Make a coupon that randomly generated for a users ip and so its one coupon per ip
    2) Make it so once an ip is used it can not be used again for a product.

    any other suggestions?
  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    @XUnleash: The way I see most folks implement it is to have a $1 trial.

    While this might cut down on your trial subscribers, the remaining are legitimately interested customers.

    The other option is to use a drip feed solution to deliver content so that if they resignup to get the trial again, they only get the limited initial content.
  3. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Skippys suggestions are good. If using paypal you can also make the member use their paypal email as their account email, and dont let them signup again with the same email.

    I think you are overly complicating things- $1 trial and drip feed is the easy way to go. You can also lock out IPs if they abuse the $1 offer.

    David

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