The article wad one big wank if you ask me. Then again, it was free.

Posted by: on January 13, 2003 09:38 AM

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An advertising executive -- one of the greats -- said this...

The "free" offer changes a product. There is a certain resistance when we ask people to afterward pay for a product which came to them first as a gift.

The difference is, the person responsible for this quote found an answer which would fit the Internet philosophy nicely. Correct or not, it would be testable on an individual basis. Spears prescription requires a mass change, which is not likely to happen.

Posted by: on January 13, 2003 12:48 PM

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Yeah, it's kind of like, "you go first." I so think Consumer Reports was spot on to start off as a paid site, and mostly stay that way.

Posted by: Frank on January 13, 2003 12:51 PM

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One of the worst articles I've read. Blame the (potential) customer for not forking up $$$, and making the model work like it should!

If you generate stuff the consumer wants, the consumer will pay. Until then, maybe, just maybe, nobody thinks your stuff is worth anything. Who is at fault? Look in the mirror.

Posted by: mcw on January 15, 2003 01:16 PM

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This was excellent! One of the funniest parody sites I've ever run across in my years of browsing!

I was amazed at the amount of effort and painstaking work that clearly went into this site, all seemingly dedicated to the proposition that people voluntarily exchanging information was somehow evil because it was "bad for the economy." Absolutely hilarious... and in places, the writer even managed to sound semi-coherent, as if his was a halfway reasonable perspective.

Very amusing stuff. I wish there were online humor awards so I could nominate this guy.

Posted by: Calybos on January 16, 2003 11:59 AM

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