When we implemented name-your-price downloads, we decided to limit the price bands could specify as the let-fan-name-price minimum to no lower than $0.50 USD. That approach made perfect sense to us at the time, since if you went much below fifty cents, all of a fan’s payment would be eaten up by transaction fees. Trouble is, that set up two flows: the free flow, and the name-your-price-with-a-non-zero-minimum flow, and since we didn’t let you choose Best quality for each, you were stuck offering non-paying fans a lower quality download. It is ridiculous, meaning completely awesome, how many bands wrote in to point out our folly.
Thanks to you, the minimum name-your-price minimum is now zero, and as an added bonus, you have the option of summoning the power of the Free Download Email Capture Thingy™ for fans who enter zero. It all looks like this:
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This is great news! Thanks
brilliant this is exactly what I was hoping for!
You lot are too good by half. Thanks!
thanks so much. bandcamp is now even more perfect.
Excellent news, thanks!
thanks guys, keep knocking the site out. its dominating everything else out there.
Fantastic. I was just about to email you about this…and you’ve already solved it!
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