dansbanners wrote on 8
th Dec, 2013 at 10:41pm:
I think it's also a question of that some of the owners learned from past experience that they do get that "initial burst of cash" after the program's launch is hyped up before the "new" novelty eventually wears off.
It even says in one of their banners "Get in first, this program is going to be huge!" or something to that sort. To put it in perspective the extent they're building on the hype and all.
That is true but when they keep on taking the prime meat for themselves they end up cannibalizing the industry. Pretty soon members begin to realize they are getting leftovers after the big dogs have fed and they stop participating. Thus, the pie ends up shrinking and this makes the owners even more desperate and greedy to sting the weaker members. So people look for other opportunities.
You can only take advantage of people so much before they walk and when they see that their effort are buying you a house while they barely make a couple bucks a month, they are going to walk. Then it begins to work like a ponzi or a matrix where the people on the bottom stop paying and that causes the people on the middle to stop making profits so they stop paying. It works its way back up through the pyramid until it gets to the top.
There is no way these guys would be in PTCs if they were still making huge amounts of cash over there. They better smarten up and listen this time because no one wants to see them bring their cannibalizing methods into the PTCs to see the same thing happen all over again.
If they see some short term success doing what they are doing then we could see some other owners copying their methods or allying with them thinking that they are going to cash in. The problem is that it will suck all the energy out of the industry and we will be stuck looking for a new industry again.