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Originally Posted by EdVinMass
This business of charging extra for the on-line system when the phone-in system is free, doesn’t make sense.
First of all the phone-in system costs as much to maintain as the on-line system. In fact, it may even cost more because they have to have a sufficient number of incoming phone lines to prevent excessive busy signals. And each addition phone line is a monthly expense and each phone line requires addition hardware and maintenance fees to support it.
On the other hand, the on-line system requires a single high speed connection which is already in place. And as the population of TV grows, it behooves them to encourage the use of on-line system, not discourage its use by charging extra for it and raising the fee to boot.
They’re shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
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I could be wrong here but I would say you are 100% wrong on this one.
The online Tee Time System would require the expense of:
A high speed connection which would need to continually be updated (i.e. pay more money) to accomodate the many users and new users to use the system.
A programmer to continually work on bringing in new features (which they have done, buddy list etc..) and to work on bug fixes
People to monitor the system and make changes as needed.
Money to pay for support
Money to fix/upgrade/maintain the server as needed.
The online Tee Time system is probably much more expensive to operate than the phone system.
Maybe it's just me but you can't get a burger and a shake over at Johnny Rockets for less than $8 bucks and that only last you 15 minutes. I don't see the $8 for making my tee times every single day 365 days a year as being overly expensive.