All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Cashmere - Nov 21, 2005 10:52:51 am PST #6073 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.

How could you hire a beautiful woman that would possibly make it worth the company's money to save one customer at a time?

How many shills are they paying, though? A girl could work more than one account at a time, right? Even setting up dates with the marks wouldn't be too much of a scheduling problem. Hire a few shills in a few cities to work a large number of soon-to-expire accounts and it's worth their while to keep membership money rolling in.


flea - Nov 21, 2005 10:54:26 am PST #6074 of 10006
information libertarian

Was it here that someone mentioned Mariah Carey and Chistmas music, this earworming me with "All I want for Christmas is youuuuuuuu [jingle, jingle]"?

Damn youuuuuuuu, whoever you were.


Wolfram - Nov 21, 2005 10:55:14 am PST #6075 of 10006
Visilurking

No, but except for word-of-mouth*, they only make back one extended subscription per date. That extended subscription brings in $30/month-- let's say 30% of that is profit. So $10/month. How could you hire a beautiful woman that would possibly make it worth the company's money to save one customer at a time?

Why is only 30% of it profit? There doesn't appear to be much overhead for online sites except advertising and bandwith. I'd think 90% of it would be profit. Also, one date can reasonably cause a subscriber to extend for 6 months. So at $27 per month that's $162 not counting word of mouth. And they're probably not paying the woman all that much. After all, she eats free.


Vortex - Nov 21, 2005 10:55:21 am PST #6076 of 10006
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Flea, THANKS FOR NOTHIN'. well, except the EARWORM.


Emily - Nov 21, 2005 10:58:19 am PST #6077 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Yeah, no kidding, flea. You could have lit a candle, but no, you SPREAD THE CURSED DARKNESS. Cursed darkness-spreader.

...is yooooooouuuuu.... goddammit.


Jesse - Nov 21, 2005 10:59:19 am PST #6078 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'd bet the word of mouth is huge, too -- I've never considered joining a site if I didn't know people who didn't at least get some decent dates out of it.


Jesse - Nov 21, 2005 11:00:41 am PST #6079 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, and shrift, while I am concerned for you, I am slightly more concerned for those around you, if bacon really is the only thing keeping you from choking a bitch. If you see what I'm saying. Good luck!!


beth b - Nov 21, 2005 11:08:27 am PST #6080 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I am glad they are looking for other causes -because quite likely there is something else. but I will say for those of us that shot up to the stratosphere with the bp - the medication worked pretty quickly.


erikaj - Nov 21, 2005 11:12:18 am PST #6081 of 10006
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

No, Allyson, you're not my science project...it's like Burrell said. Missed chances, felt bad later.


Steph L. - Nov 21, 2005 11:15:52 am PST #6082 of 10006
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Was it here that someone mentioned Mariah Carey and Chistmas music, this earworming me with "All I want for Christmas is youuuuuuuu [jingle, jingle]"?

Damn youuuuuuuu, whoever you were.

That was me, over in the Music thread, rejoicing that at least I got the earworm of "Da Butt" out of my head.