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Support Cinespot!
A letter to our fellow readers Make a donation! A letter to our fellow readers Cinespot has been up online for more than 7 years. Starting from a tiny review website, it has become one of the largest and most beloved bilingual Asian cinema websites on the web. Our contents include movie reviews, special topics articles, interviews, profiles of filmmakers, forum and many more. First of all, we would like to thank everyone who loves and supports our website. Although the content, as well as the staff, of Cinespot have been changing constantly, what did not change is that as of now we are still maintaining an independent status, that means, the operation expense is "drained" from our own pocket as well as the tiny commission as YesAsia's affiliate. As our website is expanding regularly, the cost of running it is getting higher and higher, that we begin to find it difficult to afford. Therefore, in order to maintain the quality of the website and further expand it, we want to make an announcement here, asking for donation from devoted readers like you. We hope that through this donation campaign, we can get through this difficult time and continue to serve on the web. Types of Donations To make things clearer, here are the types of donations we are hoping to get: 1. Shop at YesAsia - If you are a regular customer of YesAsia, you can help us by shopping at YesAsia via the links on our website. Your purchase each time will get us a small percentage of commission. If you are a regular shopper online, feel free to try out YesAsia. But remember to enter their website via our links! By the way, we would like to thank those who have shopped at YesAsia via our link. It really helps! Thanks! 2. The most direct way is to donate money. We prefer paypal (credit card is accepted on paypal). Any amount is fine, and it will be used to offset the expense and hire helpers for the website. All sponsors (unless you want to keep anonymous) will be listed on a sponsor page. So if you have kindly made a donation, please remember to leave us an email. 3. For other types of sponsoring or donation of a larger amount (yes it is rare, but who knows?), please contact us directly by email. Proposed projects In addition to the regular operation expense, here below are some of the tentative plans that the money will be spent: - We are hoping to bring back "Interviews" section (in fact that is what we are struggling to do now). Therefore, part of the money will be used as the operation fee (e.g. transportation, equipments, etc.) - "Starsfile" requires more people to update and research. Money will be used to offset labor cost and purchase research materials like books, magazines. - "Movie Reviews" and "DVD Zone" are the two sections that require most of the funds. Right now the cost of most of the DVD/VCD or movie ticket are covered by the reviewers themselves. That is why the content is greatly limited by the financial ability of the reviewers. There are a lot that we want but are not able to do (e.g. reviewing more DVDs from Korea and Japan in which the prices are not low). If we have more money, we hope to expand these sections a bit, especially the long paused "DVD Zone". - "Cineclub" needs more money to provide gifts and benefits for our members. - New sections like "Movie News" are under construction. We hope to have more resources to provide coverage of movie events/news in Hong Kong. Our goal is to raise enough fund for the operation of at least the next 6 months. However, since a lot of plans we want to carry out are for the long run, we do not have an exact amount in mind right now, and the donation campaign is going to be here for a long term. We sincerely hope that if you love our website and think it benefits you, please support by giving a donation. As a side note, if the response of the donation campaign is unsatisfactory, we will, as long as our wallets haven't been depleted yet, still strive our best to keep the website active. We will still work best to provide frequent regular updates, and don't worry, no pop-up ads will appear on our website as usual. However, the new plans may not be able to carry out swiftly. Cinespot Make a Donation! Click the button below to make a donation via paypal. Credit card is also accepted. Simply click the button below and then click "If you do not currently have a paypal account", it will lead you to another page where you can pay by credit card. Thank you very much!  |
