http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ E-Junkie Forum RSS en-us Copyright 2012, 19.5 Degrees. All rights reserved. webmaster@e-junkie.com webmaster@e-junkie.com Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:12:57 GMT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:58:12 GMT 681 E-JUNKIE 5 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/logo.gif 290 104 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:12:57 GMT
We can recommend a safer alternative to temporarily changing the product's actual price to 0.00. Instead, go to Seller Admin > Cart Discounts and create a secret Discount Code that takes 100% off the Item Total of any order. Then when you want to issue a free link, just add that item to a cart, apply your secret freebie discount code in the cart, and then proceed to Free Checkout where you would provide the intended recipient's name and email.]]> E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:27:17 GMT
They will then receive a download link to a stamped PDF and you can immediately put the price back to normal. Assuming your pdf isn't huge the stamping should be finished by the time they receive the notification for download.]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:02:41 GMT E-junkie Discussions; BayAreaCarGuy http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:38:03 GMT
On a side note I'll be very happy if this has done the trick and I am able to switch fully from ClickBank to the e-junkie cart system.]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:13:53 GMT
I can look at ways today of trying to reduce the image file sizes, however, I am confused, because the stamping feature was working fine for about 6 weeks without a single failure. Then when I tried to set up the e-junkie cart it failed every time. Now it's suddenly happening more frequently through ClickBank as well. Sales have been dead for the last couple of weeks after making some changes to my sales page, so I am going back to the way it was before. This was the first test I have tried a test in that time.]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:54:54 GMT If you can make a test purchase of your product using Free Checkout and download the file immediately following checkout and find it stamped, then you should be fine.

@Ashley:
With all the problems you've been having with Stamping your file, it sounds like your PDF is simply far too large and/or complex for the stamper to handle effectively, to the point where it doesn't merely take an unusually long time to stamp but occasionally bogs down completely and gives up, resulting in the failure notices you occasionally see. Discussing the matter with Development, they really hadn't anticipated that anyone would try to sell a PDF eBook that huge as a download, so your file was apparently the first trial of the Stamper on that scale.

I presume you've performed a thorough Optimization to get the PDF compressed and flattened as small as possible? Are you embedding the photos as compressed JPEGs (rather than, say, lossless TIFFs)? Computers typically render monitor displays at 96ppi (which is how SecretPoliceMan arrived at that figure), so there's really no need to make the entire PDF any higher-res than that.

If you need to provide higher-res examples of the photos themselves for close examination at high zoom levels, an idea just occurred to me: make the photos in your actual eBook low-res, and provide a link in your PDF (maybe make the image itself clickable as a link) to bring up a higher-res version of each photo in the buyer's browser.]]> E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:41:15 GMT
This is happening far too often now...]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:47:55 GMT
FWIW, my book is clearly quite large, but I have purchased and downloaded bigger books through e-junkie.]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:42:20 GMT
My original document was 200Mb!!!!! I know, I know, ridiculously large and I am very embarrassed to reveal that I made such a dumb faux-pas. The book contains over 100 photographs and I had used the PDF that had been used to create the printed version of the book so each image was over 300dpi. I have now amended the pdf so that all the photos are at 96dpi and the file size has now been reduced by 90% and is now 20Mb.

So, e-Junkie, is this still a "large file size"? If so, how far should I further reduce it?

Thanks.]]> E-junkie Discussions; SecretPoliceMan http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:54:34 GMT
From what I am seeing it is taking around a minute after clicking the buy button before the PDF stamped version of my ebook is ready. With ClickBank that has always worked except for a brief period recently and I sent in information about that to e-junkie but never heard back. Knowing that we can create a common thank you page suggesting users wait for their email with the download link would it be impossible for e-junkie to program it so that the email isn't sent until the stamp is confirmed? In theory that should solve the problem.]]> E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:15:38 GMT E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieNinja http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:04:09 GMT My PDF WAS extremely large, because it contains many photos. I have now optimized the photos and thereby substantially reduced the filesize of the PDF, so going by Tyson's explanation, that should reduce the stamping time.

Tyson, when you say "extremely large PDFs may take an unusually long time to finish stamping" - are you referring to the filesize or to the number of pages?
(Mine has 310 pages)]]> E-junkie Discussions; SecretPoliceMan http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:05:34 GMT
If you test the PDF Stamping feature and determine that could be a problem for your particular file, you can "stall" the buyer long enough to complete the stamping. Go into your Seller Admin > Account Preferences and enter a Common Thank-you Page URL for a page on your site. On that page, you should instruct buyers to watch their email for a link to their download page. Then, by the time the buyer receives a thank-you email with the link to their E-junkie-generated thank-you/download page, the stamping should be completed.]]> E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:44:41 GMT E-junkie Discussions; LauraB http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:38:13 GMT
"If you clicked on the download link real quickly after the free checkout then it is possible that the system did not have time to stamp the document. It takes a few seconds after we get notified about a completed sale before the file is stamped. With a regular order this time is taken up in the time between when we get notified and when the buyer has access to the link."

I've now added the following to the standard email message:

"Thank you for purchasing my eBook.
To ensure that you receive it correctly, please wait 5 minutes before clicking the download link above."

Has anyone else had this problem? How many seconds/minutes should we ask people to wait before they download the e-book?]]> E-junkie Discussions; SecretPoliceMan http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3883/pg/0#post12469 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:50:56 GMT
In theory it sounds really great, the answer to all my problems - but is it too good to be true?

Does anyone have any feedback they could share with me?

Thanks in advance.

www.secretpolicemanbook.com]]> E-junkie Discussions; SecretPoliceMan