Sorry James, I still don't see your logic. Just because for ages everybody believed that the Earth was flat and burnt people who had a different opinion, didn't make the world flat.
But, that aside, you don't seem to fathom that merchants think differently. I am a merchant, NOT an exchanger. And no, speaking for merchants if I may, we couldn't care less how many people get paid to read emails unless they spent their e-gold with us. So, no matter how excited you are about 100,000 account holders making a quarter of a gram a day, they can not sustain a mini-economy over time - unless your concept of economy is limited to paying promoters, paid readers and exchanger, of course ;o) I just have a different outlook than you and am making suggestions about what I think may be a good way to fix it. Let's just say that I try to think big and look into the future, while you look at last weeks stats calculate and project. If you look at e-gold's long term stats, then we have peaked about 18 months ago and lost momentum ever since. Sure there are little surges [a new reader program?], but you seem to act like an economist that still has the price of vinyl records and hoolahoops in the shopping basket he uses to calculate inflation rates. Talk to 'real' merchants - if you find any. Ask shopping site operators who accept e-gold AND other forms of payments about the trends in their sales to people using e-gold. In an economy of any size, everything is related and connected. As merchants fall by the way side, less and less people will use e-gold to buy goods, and although I would have never thought that it would come to that - I am starting to agree with "Nicole" - e-gold is more and more frequented by gamers, mini investors and small non-consequential consumers. Now, I have been trying to make my point to the excess - and apart from you nobody has disagreed in principle as yet. And I got only one flame privately as yet, which my lowest ratio ever. Mails that support my point are coming in from the most unexpected quarters and I'm starting to wonder if e-gold (JAY!!!) is taking note. Maybe I do have a point here? Maybe something is just about to go awfully wrong and I just happened to point it out a bit earlier than others? Quite frankly, everybody, where are the merchants? Where did the people who sold tangible goods for e-gold go? Without more merchants there is no reason for new entrants besides some fancy program that pushes them to use e-gold/netpay/pink-square-coupon-cash. There are huge prospects in India and China - where are the merchants that sell something those people want? How do I explain to someone who is perfectly happy to use US$ that he should loose 3-5% to get e-gold and then loose 1-2% to get dollars again because, for crying out loud - THERE IS NOTHING TO BUY !!! And to get a larger variety of goods, you have to atrract merchants, not readers. If there are merchants, there will be buyers - who knows, some readers might strike it rich. And yes James, I am making this point because I'd like to make more money - but at nobody's expense. Im happy to pay the difference through high outexchange fees, myself. > > PS Everyone gets 7 messages/day, including me. I know, it's a bitch, isn't it? Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
