$1 is peanuts, nothing nada nowadays unless web surfers count their pennies.
2006-09-20 20:05:02 · 11 answers · asked by TheErrandBoy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
b/c $1 means finding their credit card, entering the numbers confirmations, contracts, future billings etc. free means no effort and normally people like no effort
and anything i pay $ 1 normally isnt useful anyways
2006-09-20 20:07:15 · answer #1 · answered by sx_rx_rocknroll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you suggesting that I should pay a site $1 for looking up useful information? On a daily basis, I read the news at 3 different websites (bbc, reuters, cnn), look up the latest IT developments at slashdot, the latest developments in digital cameras at dpreview, etc. That's 5 sites right there. $5 a day. $150 a month. Plus tons of other sites I look up during the month. Say $400 a month. And the hastle of 400 micro-payments. Is that what you mean?
All of the sites I currently read generate income from advertising, and suits me just fine. (I use Firefox with a add-block, pop-ups disabled, and flash turned off by default, so I don't even see 95% of the ads.) The minute any of those sites start to charge me money, or get too in-my-face with their ads, I'm gone. There are plenty of alternatives.
I already pay $30 a month to my ISP. If sites want an extra buck for their content, it had better be VERY special.
2006-09-21 03:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free is $0, not $1. $1 is something, and with many $1, has the potenial to be something big. That is the hopes of the business, to recieve many $1, to have a big amount of $1. Why can't you ask of the business, why charge a $1 if its just small peanuts?
2006-09-21 03:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do pay. The phone company, the cable company, the ISP
etc. Then of course you pay for the computer. If you use the
computer at the library or school, you still pay taxes and tuition.
You also pay the electric company. These payments are not
peanuts.
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
9-20-6
2006-09-21 03:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
web surfers are global, and they cannot pay like you,
for example
there is no way to send 1 US$ from india, it will cost more than 40 $
more over 1 US$ = 48 indian rupee.... that is 5 bottles of coke......lol
evey one here does not use international credit card... they hold cash..........lol
2006-09-21 03:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's just what you have to offer that people won't pay for. A lot of people pay for stuff on the net. Maybe what you are selling is of no value.
2006-09-21 05:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by al p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just as easy as giving away that one dollar. Sure, if that one dollar were to magicly dissapear, and no onwe would have to worry about it, except that you got somthing minor out of it, then i'm pretty sure not very many people would worry.
It's not the 1$, it's the time that it takes to give/donate that one dollar. People don't like going out of their way. And people don't like to pay people to go out of their way for them, because then they themselves would have to go out of their way for those people to go out of their way for them......
You see, basicly, people don't usually like going further than they have to.
2006-09-21 03:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by dontcallmepickle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people need that dollar even though it is apparent that you don't. Where would you like that dollar to go anyway??
2006-09-21 03:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by Deb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRUE THAT IS DUDE SO GIVE A HOLLA IF U CAN SEE YA.
2006-09-21 03:12:38 · answer #9 · answered by Ysaias R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well then, send me a dollar.
2006-09-21 03:08:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋