In reply to michael havard:
It is funny how some businesses do what you say even though most of the money of a business comes from repeat customers. Getting new customers is a very hard task.
As another said in this thread, many of the people who started DA or are on it now tend to be kids. If Spyed really did what he did as a business move, it was a poor choice that doesn't seem to represent someone who knows much about business.
It can be cut throat, indeed, but you don't make moves to alienate your core customer. Those are risks that end businesses.
DA survival will depend not olny on good business practicies, but on the ability to clean up mistakes (mistakes happen, its your ability to recover that makes or breaks you).
If this whole thing isn't just a marketing ploy for DA birthday and to get community involvment to increase (and it still would be a bad risky idea but at least that type of risk can be quantified as a recoverable bet) then it just a real bad business move, period.
