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Originally posted by cj@Jul 1 2003, 09:40 PM
KK, I think its the other way around, although you are the expert ;-)
The way I see it, the bigger companies are going to be hit much harder by this, and unless they *really* have their shit together, its  ... smaller companies with less volume can change their entire business model overnight, without losing all of their webmasters & signups ...
but i'm just guessing ... i have nfc anymore LOL
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I'm not the expert cj, but I do know this -- the guys doing a couple hundred joins a day for the most part are NOT capable of running a business doing a couple thousand joins a day.
The ones doing a couple thousand a day have already been through so much, they adapt and survive, that's why they do so many signups.
I don't see signups going away, that makes no sense at all.
What I do see is some major changing in the way certain parts of this business are worked.
I imagine a couple of people will get out -- just take what they have and leave the business, retire. I imagine a couple of more will ride it as long as they can and then bail when the fines become too much to handle or the constant battle to find new merch accts is finally lost to them.
I have a good inkling of what MIGHT come... the way I see it there are two basic options, and it creates a market that has a lot of similarities to Nash's game theory and how parts will react with each other.