Originally Posted by jayeff

Earlier you estimated the cost of maintaining a database at $500 a month. Especially relative to the demand for such a service, that has to be one of the lowest running costs it is possible to imagine any business facing. Even in my one-horse town a small store costs upwards of $1,000 a month in rent alone...

So what exactly is the excuse for most submission script authors talking about their databases being a starting point? It's ludicrous that hundreds of submitters are either working with scripts crippled by the GIGO principle, or spending the time or money to update their own databases. Why should they have to worry about more than highlighting with whom they have partner accounts, when it would take such a small number of reasonably priced subscriptions to cover the cost of doing it centrally?

Selling a car without an engine (and forgetting to mention it) wouldn't be a million miles away from the way some submission scripts are sold...