>> What a lot of people seem to forget is that e- gold (or any equivalent) system works a lot better and cheaper when the number of out- exchanges is minimal.
>I agree. Excellent argument. Robert Ziegler has made this argument before. He proposes minimal in-exchange fees so everyone can get e- gold quickly and easily, but really brutal, heavy, costly out-exchange fees. Should be good for market development. Of course, it isn't "the way Omnipay is doing it." However minimal/non in-exchange fees haven't developed. Consequently my idea that we try to get people to use e-gold without ever having to in-exchange, by bartering. >> In essence it is a form of barter. >You mean, like Gold Barter? As in GoldBarter.com? Brilliant idea - Tristan Petersen, Summer 2000. The execution still leaves a bit to be desired. Not exactly. Goldbarter is an online auction house accepting only e-gold and (presumably) other GBCs. While someone could certainly use goldbarter to earn themselves e-gold, they can just as easily (and more successfully) use Ebay, amazon auctions, newsgroups, IRC chatrooms or even in-person transactions. >> trojans I have planted in my emails etc. >Trojans? What are you doing with name brand condoms in your e-mails? Just open the file I attached, it will explain everything. >> This initial experience puts them off the system. >A certain number are also put off by having their friends tell them about a nifty investment deal and then they get ripped off by a scam. Or they get screwed by escrow fraudsters. Also puts them at Big Brother's doorstep. The HYIP idiots don't seem to get put off by being ripped off, they immediately run out and try and find another program like the one they just lost out on. Whether it involves E-gold or mailing FRNs to 10 people higher up the list or whatever, they will always be with us. >> The way to get around this? Try to educate people when they first open an account. >You mean, with detailed pages like found at http://www.ezez.com/ on the how and why? Last time I checked, when people sign up for an e-gold account at e-gold.com, they don't get forwarded to your (no doubt wonderful) info pages. I am suggesting that there be something similar provided to people when they open accounts by e-gold iteself. >> All e-gold does to promote itself >You could ask Jim Ray what he does to promote e-gold. I think, though, that e-gold is based on a different business model. e-gold is a fairly simple non-repudiable payment system business model. Try and minimise costs by keeping down staff numbers and make a profit by a small charge on transactions and account holders. Obviously if they generate more traffic they will start earning more. >E-gold.com is the monks sitting in a vast library somewhere, ardently copying pages from one manuscript to another, out of love, paid a pittance, and living in caves. (A guy named Doug Jackson told me about this metaphor, April 2002.) E-gold also has bumper stickers, T- shirts, and the occasional bug bounty or something. Sounds like what Micro-Soft was doing 20 years ago. Bumper stickers and tee-shirts are wonderful, however what I'm suggesting is better promotion of the possibilities of e-gold to new users when they sign up for an account. >It is really the job of outfits like QuanExchange to do the market development. What's their motive?Those payment receive fees are split with the originator of new accounts. ? While incentive schemes are all well and good, they aren't going to be as useful as people learning to actually using their e-gold account for more than just paying some wierdo living on a North Sea platform for something on ebay. Incidentally the last round of DVD auctions has just finished so I have listed some new books! http://cgi6.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=dwarf_fighter&sort= 0&page=1&rows=200&since=1&showpics=1&stab=30 New Books at Discount Prices --- Send the right message --- + Today freemail + Get your free, private email address at http://www.today.com.au --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
