LaurieA opened this issue on Sep 24, 2012 · 142 posts
Gareee posted Sun, 30 September 2012 at 5:16 PM
Quote - How is it making money off other people's work when the entire cost of the site (from what I understand over $1000/month) is paid by the owner? Where is the profit in that? As has been noted, the $10/year will only be for those who want an ad-free view. ALL others will still be free. I am guessing that there will be other perks for subscribers. We won't know until Monday what those are. Yes, there are hundreds of sites avaialbe, but why should I spend my creative time searching all of them while possibly endangering my computer to still not come up with want I am looking for?
I think it would be more in the vein of "to help others out" to not require them to visit in some cases poorly designed sites, sites that may contain viscious code, that contain many broken links, etc. in order to find what most times can be found very easily at ShareCG.
Just because its been a bad business model does not mean it isn't a business. And what IS a business? A company that provides goods or services for money.
Look at thier future plans:
We are considering changing the ShareCG business model from banner ads to a subscription model. I am proposing that members subscribe at just $9.99 a year for a banner free ShareCG that will have the resources to add services that will make the site a better place to visit and that will bring the community closer together. We have a number of projects planned and ready to go that will:
*So this doesn't sound like facebook or deviant art at all? Commercial websites. Worth millions of dollars. *
And this doesn't sound like they are wanting to turn a profit either? I'm sure they will allow people to sell products there for free, and not take a percantage like other content brokers like Rendo or Daz.
People are acting like Sharecg is a huge charity, and the the only one of its kind on the web, when in fact it IS a buisness (even if run poorly) and does hope to profit off the generosity of other people's hard work without compensating them for it.
And is only one of hundereds of places to provide online storage for digital items.
They aren't feeding or sheltering the homeless. They are just a business trying to make money off content they've obtained for free from the generosity of others.
Look for GareeeMoo over there.. you'll notice I have some of my freebies there. I also have many at 4shared, and other places as well.
Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.