re: UKNM: Underwriting phone bill

[Ben Scott-Robinson]

what a brilliant idea...


> ** Original Subject: UKNM: Underwriting phone bill

>

** Original Sender: Clay Shirky <clayshirky [dot] com>

> ** Original Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:31:44 -0400 (EDT)


> ** Original Message follows... 


>

> >From the Yank perspective, this whole business of metered calls looks

> not merely daft, but is also a drag on e-commerce, since the sense

> that time online is precious mitigates against the sense of comfort

> needed to get used to shopping.

> 

> Have any ecommerce sites offered to explicitly reimburse customers for

> time spent on their site if they pruchase something? One could either

> do it with a counter (you spent 27 minutes here, so at 4p a minute

> we'll discount your purchase 1 pound 12) or just do like easyJet and

> offer a pound off for web purchases, but tie it explicitly to a

> discount for the metered rate, which would pay for somethig between 25

> and a hundred minutes, depending on the telco charge.

> 

> -clay 


>** --------- End Original Message ----------- **


> 


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