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I saw your link and thought the basic info was interesting. When I went to order, I notice 'TIP' ... WTF? 20% even. I know you can turn it off, but it highly offended me, for the following reasons:

1) TIP - To insure prompt service - its an online order. What no tip maybe obtain the material through a dial-up modem?

2) It is a course ... Next thing you know my rent due will come with a TIP request.

3) You never TIP the owner. Tipping the owner is an insult to the owner.

He's using Gumroad (which I use as well). Gumroad turned on tipping as an opt-out feature for all sellers around one or two months ago. If you had a product you were already selling on Gumroad, like I was, the tipping feature was automatically enabled for the product and you have to go in and manually turn it off.

I felt the same way you do about tipping for an info product, but I left mine on and people do use it; turning it off would be turning down extra income.

> TIP - To insure prompt service

FYI, this backronym is nonsensical. It would only make sense if the gratuity were paid in advance, and then again only were it called a "tep," to ensure promptness.

second this. wife gave me a book called 'second brain', on note taking / knowledge management. definitely one of the more useful gifts i've received!

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