I have several gigs of scripts, eBooks, videos etc. on my hard drive as well and when decided to run this event I have considered risks associated with it against benefits. Benefits have won, since I have seen them first-hand by participating in IM events. Even from that crowd I managed to build a fairly responsive mailist.
When I was choosing for a script to be used for this event I was looking for several key things:
- Had to be easy to use and intuitive for both JV partners and future members.
- Had to have several levels of membership, so that each group can see their own menu based on current status.
- Had to provide an option for JV partners to easily submit and later modify their contributed gift if necessary.
- Had to have some form of promotion incentive, so each JV partner actually sees the benefits of promoting this event.
- Had to be easily customized so I could add pages as necessary, for example JV Tools, which I have added with all templates, tools, and scripts to ensure success of event.
So when I have evaluated all scripts that I was able to find that fit those requirements, I have found only Butterfly Marketing (with it’s nearly prohibitive price) and JV firesale. No questions that BM is more secure and more supported but I have managed to get JV Firesale script that was fixed and modified by one of the marketers and actually cost more then when it was originally released. Very same version has been used and is used right now in similar events, so I do have certain level of confidence in version of script that I have, considering combined security of setting rather restrictive permissions on server side during installation.
So, all things taken into consideration, benefits I have personally experienced from this type of events far exceed any worries I had over script itself. And while I would obviously love to see as many partners joining from gambling community as possible, I do appreciate you raising all concerns. Each future partner has to make his own decision and I think this conversation will be of great help to anyone considering.