Is the poor economy effecting webmasters???
 

I always feel like it is, but when I look at the numbers it's really not :1orglaugh I think maybe it's just making me more paranoid of how I spend my money. All of this stuff on the news is having a horrible phsycological effect on me :( I feel broke even though my income is the same

It's all media and political propaganda...

Location: Toronto

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affecting not effecting in this case

I'm seeing a decline in sales recently... but usually pics up by June when the college kids are home, bored and looking to rub one out on their parent's bed. lol

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Media cant control the dollar... but i know who can, do you?

http://www.goldinformant.com/images/...S.dollar.1.jpg

http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2005/03.../leskosit2.JPG

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pretty fucking close!

You are more broke..You answered your own question..YOU MAKE THE SAME AMOUNT...BUT EVERYTHINGELSE IS GOING UP..get the picture?

I'm Sherlock Holmes and I approve of this obvious message

Not trying to be flippant, just wondering. Besides gas, what in your life has gone up in price lately?

gas prices suck ass

Maybe food. truck drivers must past the cost of higher fuel to someone. It maybe be 5 cent an item. it all trickle down

Well for me the following is up (rough percentages)
Red meat: 60%
Pork: 50%
Chicken: 45%
Lettuce & other greens: 70%
Bread, rice, grains: 50%
Milk: 25%
Eggs: 40%
Pasta: 30%

Hell our food costs have gone from about 125.00 a week to 200.00 a week (not including eating out) and if I recall food costs account for like 15% of household spending while gas is only like 5%. That of course is just food and not increased costs in nearly everything else too from natural gas to the damn cost of household paint. Only real benefit is electricity and that is just because our city produces it own via the damn.

the cost of everything is going up. The rise in the cost of petroleum products has driven the production of biofuels up to new highs. New competitive markets are opening for grain crops. Market prices for grains are at a high for years now. This is driving the cost of food up considerably. How much are you paying for a loaf of bread now compared to say 2-3 years ago? The price has damn near doubled.

The cost of putting fuel towards transportation of goods is driving delivery prices up, which is driving retail price of products up, just so that retailers can meet their margins. Whether or not you have noticed the cost of everything is slowly on the rise. Not so slowly in some instances. All this is going on at a time where wages simply are not going up much at all.

When you're a 20 year old student who can barely afford to put fuel in your car and feed yourself, stealing your porn starts looking like a damn good alternative to dropping 3-4 days worth the meals on a porn membership. Hell, it's gonna start making things tight for a lot of people. It's bound to have some effect on what is mostly a disposable, easy to find for free product like online pornography...

You must do a lot more shopping than me or pay a lot closer attention. I have not noticed the cost of my food going up.

What time period are you talking about because milk (the only thing I pay attention to on your list) costs me the same today as it has for months.

I never realized 20 year old students were your primary demographic.

Back to Dec of 2007. I did not carry over any other data from my spreadsheets to figure stuff out.

I didn't say they were, they are probably are the worst demographic at the moment. But that is my point, these are the people who are advancing the theft or spread of piracy the most. So yes, it is still affecting things greatly. 18-30 year old men are are probably the largest porn consuming demographic. They are also the demographic with the least expendable cash to sepnd. they have the knowhow and the ability to find free porn, and to spread free porn. making it easier for EVERYONE to find.

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After Shock hit it on the head.

Bread here went from 99cents to a 1.50.

Shit only 1.50?
I bought a store brand pack of hotdog buns and it was 3.25 and a loaf of standard white bread, again store brand was near 4.00.

Not trying to be an ass or anything, but do YOU EAT MUCH??? FOOD= Increase

and property TAXES..energy for your HOUSE...hmmmm AIRLINE tickets ( flying in Models)

BLOCKBUSTER, CABLE TV...do you need more, smarty pants?

I'm glad on your planet only GAS is more expensive, but on EARTH we have more things going up

shit man where do you live? The $1.50 bread is the store brand bread nothing special.

Are you sure? Dairy prices have pretty much doubled in the last year (although the last couple months it has flatlined). Maybe they've started watering yours down.

store brand is up from 99c to $1.15 here not a huge increase for me :2 cents::2 cents:

I live out of the USA and I can tell you first hand that I have to look at the exchange rate DAILY and watch the dollar decline. Compared to this time last year, I'm losing quite a bit of money living abroad just based on the exchange.

It just makes me think a second longer when making a purchase. Do I really need it, will it better my life, or do I just want it? Unless I need it, no need to have it.

I will say that I am worried about money for the first time in my life in the past 10 years. Not that I am broke, far from it, but I do not see an end the drop of the dollar and while living abroad and earning in USD, that is bad news. I have no plans to return to live in the USA, so I have to worry about the dollar taking a nose dive. I see it every day here.

Nevermind........

To be honest, I don't shop a lot, but what I do buy a lot costs pretty much the same as always. Restaurants seem to be priced the same as ever.

My property taxes have not gone up anywhere. Airline costs have always fluctuated, don't notice anything different. We have this thing called the CPUC and they regulate things like cable TV, natural gas, phone and electricity. No, I have not noticed any rate increases.

You say blockbuster charges more now? That would surprise me.

But, but, wait a moment US goverment says that inflation is around 3-4% only .....

and

"Bill Gross, the manager of Pimco Total Return, the nation's largest bond fund, refers to the CPI as a "con job" that deliberately understates the price pressures faced by Americans in order to keep Social Security payments and other government costs pegged to the index unduly low.

In a report about the CPI, he noted that some of the adjustments don't accurately reflect how much consumers pay for goods. Pimco estimates that the changes have shaved more than a percentage point off the CPI.

"Did your new model computer come with a 25% discount from last year's price?" Gross wrote. "Probably not. What is likely is that you paid about the same price for memory improvements you'll never use."

Another flaw with the CPI numbers is that the government now assumes that higher prices for one item will lead consumers to buy more of a substitution item. That may be true. But if people buy fewer steaks and more hamburgers, for example, it's unrealistic to say that inflation isn't a problem, skeptics maintain.

"The government can claim there's no inflation but all they're measuring is a reduced standard of living," argues Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, an investment firm specializing in overseas investments.

With all this in mind, California economist John Williams argues that CPI is understating inflation by at least 3 percentage points and perhaps as much as 7 percentage points. So instead of an annual inflation rate of 4%, the true number could be between 7% and 11%."

from:
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080514/051308_misery.html

The price for cocaine has rose 1%

They are smart they stopped calculating oil/gas and food into the inflation costs.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iR_ssZzQyYQ&feature=related

peter is the only one telling the truth

I think that regardless of whether your sales have declined a lot, a little, or not at all, now is the time to keep a tighter lid on your expenses than usual... you never know what could happen at this point, with energy and food costs going out into the stratosphere. Better to make that safety net as big as possible in case major changes need to be made.