Cap'm' on the bridge.
FWIW. Frankly, I hope Auctiva starts to charge for this service ASAP. It's a simple rule of the marketplace that (quality being equal) as long as a product is priced below what the market will bring, the demand will go up, the supply will vanish. In this case, the price of Auctiva is zilch. The demand is for servers, tech's, customer support, bandwidth, etc.
I'm surprised at the number of people who saw this happen at SD, and don't have any qualms about it happening here.
Shooting Star is finding this out the hard way too. Kevin apparently didn't have the confidence in his product to make a fair profit. Now, he's having to cut off all support for the existing SS in January, come out with a new program, go from $49 to $180, and guarantee only a year of updates. No guarantee that that will keep them afloat. He's letting those of us who have the old SS upgrade thru January for $60, which is cheaper than dirt, yet there are still plenty of welfare babies hitting the roof over there, gonna quit, etc.
Looks like Poster Toaster's site is no longer up. Another freebie. SS says they're going to intergrate with it further?
I know the following fact bothers some of you. It doesn't make it any less of a fact: It is the absolute obligation of a corporation's officers and management to wring every last dime of profit from the market that is legally possible.
Cheers and best wishes for high returns,
CB
-overheard at the Salvation Army chow line, "yeah, but at least I was never undersold!"
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