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Old 09-10-2010, 01:59 PM
 
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I cannot believe people think .38 is too much to pay for a service, online or not. My goodness.
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:02 PM
 
Location: Pittston, PA
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I cannot believe people think .38 is too much to pay for a service, online or not. My goodness.
Not that $.38 is too much, I just like free things
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Bartonsville, PA
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Yes. Too expensive for online reading. Already paying $20+ to access the Internet each month, what if WNEP started charging you watch local news broadcast on top of your cable bill. I know it is far fetched. But don't mean it can't happen
Poor analogy! Many online sites that provide a service have subscriptions.

Jim
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Bartonsville, PA
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Not that $.38 is too much, I just like free things
Not to single you out, but others in this forum think they should get this service for free...and, when they can't, they criticize the PR. I wonder if the shoe was on the other foot, and these naysayers owned the PR, what would they do? I never saw so many belly achers.
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:59 PM
 
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LOLOLOLOLOL...that's a good one.
I don't know how the Record got so swelled up with themselves
but I wouldn't line my birdrcage with that rag.
Let alone pay to see it online.
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Old 09-10-2010, 06:12 PM
 
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38 CENTS?! How dare they!
People who already subscribe to the paper itself probably aren't going to subscribe to the online addition anyway. I read the CV and rarely go to their website unless I'm looking to reference something on a forum like this. If they added online subscription I'd pass.

People who do not subscribe to the paper already have very little interest in it. These people will not pay the fee either.

They are going to get very little revenue from this and any revenue they were getting from online advertising will dry up. I know if I was paying for advertising on that site I'd just drop it because there is going to be no traffic.
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Old 09-10-2010, 06:16 PM
 
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Not that $.38 is too much, I just like free things

It's not really free because they get paid by advertisers, you're cost is having to wade through the ads. They use the same model for the physical newspaper because it cost a heck of lot more produce than what the consumer pays.
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Old 09-10-2010, 06:36 PM
 
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People who already subscribe to the paper itself probably aren't going to subscribe to the online addition anyway. I read the CV and rarely go to their website unless I'm looking to reference something on a forum like this. If they added online subscription I'd pass.

People who do not subscribe to the paper already have very little interest in it. These people will not pay the fee either.

They are going to get very little revenue from this and any revenue they were getting from online advertising will dry up. I know if I was paying for advertising on that site I'd just drop it because there is going to be no traffic.

Wellll....depends on the person. We have a 7-day subscription to the hard copy Times Leader. We STILL check the online edition and we would be willing to pay for it.
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Old 09-10-2010, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
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I cannot believe people think .38 is too much to pay for a service, online or not. My goodness.
I'd rather pay for something that's worth what they're asking...the Pocono Wreckerd doesn't meet that...the NY Times, WSJ, Financial Times, or CNN it is not!!
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Old 09-10-2010, 06:37 PM
 
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I'd rather pay for something that's worth what they're asking...the Pocono Wreckerd doesn't meet that...the NY Times, WSJ, Financial Times, or CNN it is not!!

Fine. That is the choice as a consumer. But please don't act as if PR is soooooooooooo out of the realm of reality to actually request payment for a service.
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