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Mispriced Bandwidth

A correspondent writes:

The Moche site is down again. In situations like these, it's always struck me that the business model of the host--in this case Yahoo! GeoCities--is insane. If the demand exceeds the bandwidth that their customer has paid for, they should provide an option for visitors to make a donation via PayPal or some such that will restore access to the site. They might make a lot of money doing this--they might even split it with their customers whose sites attract the traffice. If the fee is priced correctly, visitors wouldn't think twice about paying--obviously we want to see the site or we wouldn't have followed the link in the first place.

This is an excellent idea. With bandwidth so cheap I would add that there ought to be an option to pay for bandwidth for others as well as oneself. I would have paid for our readers to enjoy the sex pots!  I would tell you the correspondent's name by the way except that this person is at work and doesn't want it known that s/he uses the boss´s time to peruse "erotic crockery"! 

Posted by Alex Tabarrok on July 27, 2005 at 06:18 PM in Economics | Permalink

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