On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]>wrote:
> Steve Totaro wrote: > > > I am a capitalist. > > > > If I can get a little extra money to pay my phone bill then great. > > > > If someone calls that number, and the caller ID is real and true, and > > they provide DNC functionality then it is not pointless or "retarded". > > > > How is it any different than if they call you directly to be removed > > (except you make no green)? > > > > Don't get your logic..... > > The logic has to do with the fact that arbitrage opportunities that > exploit differences in settlement regimes across jurisdictions or > markets are short-lived and for a sustainable business model do not > make. This is no different than CABS traffic pumping schemes or > anything else. What all these feats of endeavour - however much or > little money they can make for the moment - have in common is that (a) > they are figments of increasingly decrepit regulation, and (b) markets > rationalise them away. The latter happens gradually, so you see the > spreads you can capture shrink. > > So, you'd be better off spending the time and energy involved in > enrolling into such a scheme developing a product that actually adds > value and can be monetised in greater perpetuity. > > Dip arbitrage is a game people who do not have the ingenuity to do > something with higher ROI play. There will always be plenty of those, > and they will always say they're just being good capitalists and taking > free money, but as we know, technology-focused capitalism is an > environment where those who know - do, and those who don't desperately > grasp for straws and/or try to find coattails to cling to (nickel and > dime vendors, pinch pennies, make money off little fees, engage in > purely speculative resale, etc.). > > -- Alex > > -- > Alex Balashov > Evariste Systems > Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ > Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 > Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 > Sorry to say that everything is shortlived. Grab it while you can and be ready to move quickly to the next thing. BTW, ANI dip compensation has been around a long time, so define short lived. To list a few, dialup access (AOL for instance), sub-prime mortgages, mortgage brokering, auto industry, pagers, VCR and everything that entailed, DVD going to Blu-Ray, manufacturing in the US, call centers in the US. You name it, I can predict when it will stop living. Only certainties in life, are death and taxes. It pertains to business just as much as people. Here is a big one nobody is talking about on the lists, probably deserves a post of it's own. http://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2008/10/articles/direct-marketing/telemarketers-beware-new-ftc-restrictions-on-prerecorded-calls-take-effect-soon/ -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype)
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