One would think you could find some at Niketown. When I was there a few weeks ago, they have a few, but not many. Mostly ManU stuff. The adidas store has nothing now. It's slim pickins, but your best bet would be Soccer West, which has stores in Bellevue and Lynnwood.
I think Bigsoccer made a mistake by not giving a premium membership to people that buy 50 bucks worth of merchandise from the bigsoccer store.
Make sense. Buy 50 bucks of merchandise online, give away a $35 membership. Bigsoccer loses about $25 on the transaction, Viking64 is happy. Let me know in a PM what company you work for so I can short the stock immediately.
That assumes that the marginal cost of an additional membership is something other than zero or nominal. Also, there is no gaurantee that the person who might spend $50 at the store would EVER spend $35 for an avatar and an ignore list. Give away something that costs you zero to encourage people to buy from you rather than the 1000 other internet sites offering the same merchandise - not too dumb. Let me know what company you work for so I can audit your financials.
Ah- the internet financial method. Would have made sense in 1998. What your method fails to take in, is the profit that bigsoccer is making on that $50 purchase which is minimal. Nor are you taking into account the over 500 or so people that have already signed up for that service you think they should be giving away for free. No thanks on the financial audit, my company would not like to be in front of an IRS audit as soon as you file our tax returns.