How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M

Re:How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M by kzisme on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:24PM (#12747812)

Is their $12/12 weeks method ~really~ that effective for news aggregation websites such as HN or Reddit? Unless you've been a subscriber to the physical subscription, and enjoy it I see no reason why someone from one of these sites would subscribe.

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Re:How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M by PhantomGremlin on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:57PM (#12749486)

I would gladly pay $1/week for the WSJ. Reporters and editors have mortgages to pay and families to feed.

The problem is that's a teaser rate. The current rate for 1 year is $277. That's way more than I'm willing to pay for a single newspaper.

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Re:How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M by kzisme on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:26AM (#12751956)

Ah yes I would do the same possibly - but Amazon Prime is $99 a year and offers has many more uses. After the 12 weeks I assume it automatically signs you up for a year/monthly subscription and you have to remember to cancel it.

Also someone had already mentioned - they probably run many Ads as well. I just find it hard to justify.

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Re:How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M by anantzoid on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:04AM (#12749666)

But don't they earn through ads? Like other news websites.

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