"basically get $.98 per REC that you make" Okay, so this comment made me actually go and dig into the site. I think this is a perfect lesson in marketing. Th

"basically get $.98 per REC that you make" Okay, so this comment made me actually go and dig into the site. I think this is a perfect lesson in marketing. The front page of AmieStreet says absolutely nothing about the rewards program, it only mentions the variable pricing. Even when you click into "How it works", you have to click on "Rewards" specifically (and you can't click the big picture marked "Rewards", you have to click the small text in the sidebar), and then the description of how it works is confusing (do I have to buy a song to Rec it?). Compare that to popcuts: on the front page, in big red letters "Buy a song. Get paid everytime it sells again." Anyways, even now knowing how it works, I still think AmieStreet gets it wrong. The whole point of the market-based approach should be to incentivize buying in the long-term. AmieStreet only incentivizes it early, and it encodes directly in the price information about whether or not I should buy. If the price is already higher, why would I buy? I know that I'm not going to make any additional money off the song, and I feel bad because I didn't discover this music (I'm a follower, late to the party, the greatest sin of being a music tastemaker).