Amen... I was a member of PayPal before eBay had ever heard of 'em -- back when everything about it was totally 100% FREE of charge!
For the record, I gave up on MapQuest a long time ago, because they were soooo slooooowww, probably because of all the ads. I've been using http://local.live.com/ for a while and I love pretty much everything about it. It's an MSN concern, and I guess they have enough money, cuz there aren't any annoying ads. Not even ad banners. Best, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] How auctions change policies: was Protected Biddingon ebay! > The business plan for web based services like auctionzip is to initially > offer the service free until a > user base is built up large enough to justify charging a fee for the > service. They have a good idea how > many free users will convert to paid and how many will leave. Nothing new > here with this approach. > bandwidth is not free and if you get too large you can no longer use a > residential DSL line to host your > website. Plus, the entire idea of offering any service to the public is > to make money. Mapquest did it > with add revenue. When was the last time you used mapquest? You can not > find the map for all of > the adds. > > Rich
