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thunderbird
Here's some education.
436 members at $5.32 = $2319.52/mo
assuming 400 are actual paying members and that the .32 is for tax,
then walkin with $2000/mo before paying for bandwidth, site maintenance, hosting, etc.
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with all due respect it's nobodys busieness how mel's enterprise is operating, what cost, how much etc.
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myplanet
This comment leaves a bit of a bitter taste in my ears. If your promotional gimmicks weren't so obviously manipulative, it would be a different story. 5 min teaser. dumbed down 1st hour free. pay for the real content, except.... that it's bundled with 3 months of other stuff you may not be interested in. Plus the chasing people around with lawyers appears to come straight out of the "that's mine...that's mine...get your own..." mentality.
If someone wants to charge money for acting as a middle man, and putting potential buyers together with the actual creators of original value, that's one thing. But to manipulate people into buying more than the value they are interested in, is a practice which will follow other old paradigm practices down the toilet with a sigh of good riddance.
There'd be no complaint from me, if trick promo actions weren't used, and if the value one offered was available by itself. If I want Clif, I should be able to buy Clif, and nobody else packaged along for 15 times the cost.
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I'm sure that mel would want to give his work for free if there was no money, whatsoever. However he has his cost, his family, other expenses and he can charge, format and sell however he likes. If you don't approve, don't listen and don't complain.
Personally I think he delivers best interviews, with best questions and no one had clif thinking and hesitating as many times as mel. That's the hole issue here, if he wasn't so good people wouldn't complain.
Another thing, what if nothing happens in the near future, no change, no 2012, no nothing, one still has to feed family, would you donate if he was in trouble?
gibonos