<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
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> I am a capitalist.<br>
><br>
> If I can get a little extra money to pay my phone bill then great.<br>
><br>
> If someone calls that number, and the caller ID is real and true, and<br>
> they provide DNC functionality then it is not pointless or "retarded".<br>
><br>
> How is it any different than if they call you directly to be removed<br>
> (except you make no green)?<br>
><br>
> Don't get your logic.....<br>
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</div>The logic has to do with the fact that arbitrage opportunities that<br>
exploit differences in settlement regimes across jurisdictions or<br>
markets are short-lived and for a sustainable business model do not<br>
make. This is no different than CABS traffic pumping schemes or<br>
anything else. What all these feats of endeavour - however much or<br>
little money they can make for the moment - have in common is that (a)<br>
they are figments of increasingly decrepit regulation, and (b) markets<br>
rationalise them away. The latter happens gradually, so you see the<br>
spreads you can capture shrink.<br>
<br>
So, you'd be better off spending the time and energy involved in<br>
enrolling into such a scheme developing a product that actually adds<br>
value and can be monetised in greater perpetuity.<br>
<br>
Dip arbitrage is a game people who do not have the ingenuity to do<br>
something with higher ROI play. There will always be plenty of those,<br>
and they will always say they're just being good capitalists and taking<br>
free money, but as we know, technology-focused capitalism is an<br>
environment where those who know - do, and those who don't desperately<br>
grasp for straws and/or try to find coattails to cling to (nickel and<br>
dime vendors, pinch pennies, make money off little fees, engage in<br>
purely speculative resale, etc.).<br>
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-- Alex<br>
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Alex Balashov<br>
Evariste Systems<br>
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</font><div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Sorry to say that everything is shortlived. Grab it while you can and be ready to move quickly to the next thing.<br><br>BTW, ANI dip compensation has been around a long time, so define short lived.<br>
<br>To list a few, dialup access (AOL for instance), sub-prime mortgages, mortgage brokering, auto industry, pagers, VCR and everything that entailed, DVD going to Blu-Ray, manufacturing in the US, call centers in the US.<br>
<br>You name it, I can predict when it will stop living.<br><br>Only certainties in life, are death and taxes. It pertains to business just as much as people. <br><br>Here is a big one nobody is talking about on the lists, probably deserves a post of it's own.<br>
<br><a href="http://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2008/10/articles/direct-marketing/telemarketers-beware-new-ftc-restrictions-on-prerecorded-calls-take-effect-soon/">http://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2008/10/articles/direct-marketing/telemarketers-beware-new-ftc-restrictions-on-prerecorded-calls-take-effect-soon/</a><br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro <br>+18887771888 (Toll Free)<br>+12409381212 (Cell)<br>+12024369784 (Skype)<br>