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Interesting idea. Would anyone here actually pay for virtual goods? Examples? I can't say I ever have on facebook apps etc..

by TimH 17y ago

mahmud 17y ago
you as an individual are too much of a small sample size for the recognition of any pattern; and a self-selected sample of your peers is too biased. That's why God created market studies and published research. Hint, 12% of Americans bought Virtual goods online. Worth 1.8 billion. http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/12-of-americans-bought-virtual-goods-in-past-12-months-survey/ http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/12-of-americans-bought-virtual-...
- whatusername 17y ago
  Yeah but there's a big difference between buying a parrot-secrets ebook (or buying Horse Armour in Oblivion or new tracks in Guitar Hero) and buying "flowers" on facebook.
- TimH 17y ago
  Thank you. I'm pretty happy to see this. Will investigate. Even if it's 10% true, that's pretty healthy.
patio11 17y ago
I own about $20,000 of notional fractional interest in an absolutely ginormous pool of paper slips with numbers on them. Except, there isn't actually any paper anymore, since they made it all electronic. But if there were slips of paper, they would number in the billions, each saying that I own fractional interest in the real property and future earnings of a particular person. No person named on any of the non-existent pieces of paper actually exists -- that is the point of having the paper in the first place. Or not having it, as the case may be. I have also paid for software, music, videos, text messaging, online connectivity, phone time, concerts, priority boarding, and World of Warcraft. But I wouldn't ever pay money for virtual goods, oh no, that stuff just isn't real. (Moral of the story: it is all how you sell it.)
- TimH 17y ago
  Nice comment. :-)
- dan_the_welder 17y ago
  If you think you've talked me into buying you "kiss under mistletoe" you're wrong.
caffeine 17y ago
Virtual goods paid my rent in Tokyo for a year. I wouldn't buy them, you wouldn't buy them, but ... some people buy them. Enough people.
- TimH 17y ago
  Hey caffeine, I'd love to talk to you about this. Please ping me tmhaines a@t the google mail system if you see this.

Interesting idea. Would anyone here actually pay for virtual goods? Examples? I can't say I ever have on facebook apps etc..

by TimH 17y ago

Interesting idea. Would anyone here actually pay for virtual goods? Examples? I can't say I ever have on facebook apps etc..

mahmud 17y ago

you as an individual are too much of a small sample size for the recognition of any pattern; and a self-selected sample of your peers is too biased. That's why God created market studies and published research. Hint, 12% of Americans bought Virtual goods online. Worth 1.8 billion. http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/12-of-americans-bought-virtual-goods-in-past-12-months-survey/ http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/12-of-americans-bought-virtual-...

whatusername 17y ago
Yeah but there's a big difference between buying a parrot-secrets ebook (or buying Horse Armour in Oblivion or new tracks in Guitar Hero) and buying "flowers" on facebook.
TimH 17y ago
Thank you. I'm pretty happy to see this. Will investigate. Even if it's 10% true, that's pretty healthy.

patio11 17y ago

I own about $20,000 of notional fractional interest in an absolutely ginormous pool of paper slips with numbers on them. Except, there isn't actually any paper anymore, since they made it all electronic. But if there were slips of paper, they would number in the billions, each saying that I own fractional interest in the real property and future earnings of a particular person. No person named on any of the non-existent pieces of paper actually exists -- that is the point of having the paper in the first place. Or not having it, as the case may be. I have also paid for software, music, videos, text messaging, online connectivity, phone time, concerts, priority boarding, and World of Warcraft. But I wouldn't ever pay money for virtual goods, oh no, that stuff just isn't real. (Moral of the story: it is all how you sell it.)

TimH 17y ago
Nice comment. :-)
dan_the_welder 17y ago
If you think you've talked me into buying you "kiss under mistletoe" you're wrong.

caffeine 17y ago

Virtual goods paid my rent in Tokyo for a year. I wouldn't buy them, you wouldn't buy them, but ... some people buy them. Enough people.

TimH 17y ago
Hey caffeine, I'd love to talk to you about this. Please ping me tmhaines a@t the google mail system if you see this.