What do you pay for that you could get for free? (Including premium versions of something you can have a basic version of for free, like Dropbox or Spotify or or LiveJournal or sex.) Why do you pay for it?
Funny, I would think of sex as the opposite of the freemium model: the kind you pay for supplies only the most basic level of service; the really good stuff you can only get for free
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Funny, I would think of sex as the opposite of the freemium model: the kind you pay for supplies only the most basic level of service; the really good stuff you can only get for free.
You've obviously been buying your sex in the wrong places. Of course Taco Bell sex isn't going to be as good as homemade, but I don't expect homemade to be able to compete with Eleven Madison Park sex.
Seriously, though, I am also interested in things like sex that are whatever the opposite of freemium is ("costgratis"?).
Huh, I assume there are many things in this category. Like, bread. I occasionally buy bread, but it's so over produced that bakeries are always giving away end-of-day bread.I guess I am paying for a choice of flavors, the convenience of getting it at the time when I'm getting other groceries, and the avoidance of embarrassment about scrounging for free food which I can afford to buy. Similar for buying toilet paper instead of taking the left over half rolls from work, which are often replaced by full rolls by the custodial staff and then left lying around. I have sometimes bought the upgrade version of SurveyMonkey for work use, because I want to send out surveys with more questions than are allowed by the free version. I paid the optional fee for HogwartsIsHere (Harry Potter MOOC) because I thought it was a cool idea and wanted to support it. I pay to subscribe to delivered bottled water at work instead of drinking out of the taps because I mostly drink tea, and I'd rather get the near-boiling water out of the bottled water
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Hmm. I buy collections of webcomics that I could just read on the web for free - some combination of premium features (reading a book is still easier than flipping through N webpages one at a time) and support for something I want to keep existing seems like the right explanation.
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You've obviously been buying your sex in the wrong places. Of course Taco Bell sex isn't going to be as good as homemade, but I don't expect homemade to be able to compete with Eleven Madison Park sex.
Seriously, though, I am also interested in things like sex that are whatever the opposite of freemium is ("costgratis"?).
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