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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I said it "effects sales" don't you understand simple English? Or are you saying giving it away has absolutely no effect on sales. Not that some aren't still sold.
I don't want to resort to insults but for fucks sake, read what you write and think about how stupid you look because of what you write.
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paul, what you don't understand is that for centuries things have been given away to sell other things.
the first pubs were probably the ones that sold the drinks across the street.
then someone came to put chairs there, lay down the daily newspaper, heat the booth, put up a tv. make music and much more.
so the one who went to the pub has:
1. no newspaper subscription of his own used
2. he didn't have to heat and didn't buy wood or coal for it
3. he didn't need a tv or a radio
according to your conviction, all the guests should be millionaires because they have saved a lot of money and all newspaper publishers, coal sellers as well as radio and television shops should be broke.
giving something for free means that there are things that normally cost money that would have to be bought by those who don't give it for free.
If people are willing to pay the mere presence of a lot of people to give them an advertising message, then in the end they will get out of the money that would not buy the product if it is not free.
why is it so hard to understand? the biggest companies in the world have been built with this concept.
you can surely still remember when searching the net was still indirectly liable to pay costs because there were no search engines but only directories that demanded money for the listing.
the first search engines ruined the business for all of them and changed it for a million times bigger business.
for me (and certainly for everyone else here) you sound like one of those pages that could live a little bit in the 90s from sold listings. imagine those people would come here now and telling us that google destroyed the biz.