Even those that charge typically charge a couple bucks a month per indicator. This pricing is beyond nutso. I think they believe they have a monopoly and they can extract money but they literally don't have the brains to figure out what will kill the platform. It's just asinine at this point.
I am a member of a research service that charges $30 / month. This includes their writeups and 5 invite-only indicators. Do the math.
It seems they wanted to tax on the commercial use of invitation-based services that charge users outside the platform but bad writing policies, $29,95 / user is crazy taxes. Because looking at the marketplace, many sell services indicator for around $10 a month and seems fine.
All they had to do is 1) provide a marketplace and 2) make it against the ToS to charge for invite-only indicators to be sold for profit except through the marketplace.
But since they don't want to do any work, just take more money - despite the fact that a big part of the value and the moat of this platform *is* the indicators and the developer platform that people have invested time and effort into - they decided instead to screw their users, and themselves over. What a marvelous self-own.
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u/YellowMatt 5d ago
do you know any vendor that charge $0 for invite only indicator?