Friday, August 13, 2004
InfoWorld: Everybody Wants A Piece Of My Paycheck
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
Ephraim Schwartz over at InfoWorld was tempted by a new subscription that Blockbuster was offering:
"The latest news from Blockbuster announcing the launch of its online DVD rental service has me ecstatic. For $19.95 per month I will be sent any three videos of my choosing on DVD, with no return date. Of course I can't rent three more till I return the other three. For $29.95 I could get five DVDs at a time. But looking for more ways to stay tuned into my PC/DVD player rather than going outside, I took the top of the line offer, eight DVDs for a mere $39.95. The only trouble is that when I went online to check my bank account this week it looked rather anemic, so I ran a high end enterprise variance analytics program which measures expected paycheck against actual."
He goes on to discover he's got 8 technology-related subscriptions, for a total of $413.85/month. 8O I was going to laugh at it, but then I started wondering how many subscriptions have... and... I don't know exactly! I'll have to go dig it out. I'm pretty sure I'm not spending $400/month, but the things are certainly proliferating. What about you?
"The latest news from Blockbuster announcing the launch of its online DVD rental service has me ecstatic. For $19.95 per month I will be sent any three videos of my choosing on DVD, with no return date. Of course I can't rent three more till I return the other three. For $29.95 I could get five DVDs at a time. But looking for more ways to stay tuned into my PC/DVD player rather than going outside, I took the top of the line offer, eight DVDs for a mere $39.95. The only trouble is that when I went online to check my bank account this week it looked rather anemic, so I ran a high end enterprise variance analytics program which measures expected paycheck against actual."
He goes on to discover he's got 8 technology-related subscriptions, for a total of $413.85/month. 8O I was going to laugh at it, but then I started wondering how many subscriptions have... and... I don't know exactly! I'll have to go dig it out. I'm pretty sure I'm not spending $400/month, but the things are certainly proliferating. What about you?
