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Re:What do people think about paying for virtual gifts / goods? by cte on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @04:00PM (#562216)
According to http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/facebook-selling-digita... facebook is selling digital gifts at a $35m run rate. A friend at fb tells me this number is significantly inflated though.
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Re:What do people think about paying for virtual gifts / goods? by ChristianPerry on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @04:14PM (#562243)
I wouldn't be surprised. I saw James Hong from HotORNot talk about virtual gifts a while ago. You know what one of the biggest sources of revenue on their site was? Flowers.

You could send three different kinds of flowers to someone -- a cheap one ($1), a medium priced one ($3), or an expensive one ($10. Yes, $10 for a stupid little flower icon.)

People bought flowers by the hundreds of thousands; they became one of the biggest drivers of site revenue. Moreover, and this is interesting, James said that when someone sent a flower to a person, they were considerably more likely to get a response when sending a message.

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Re:What do people think about paying for virtual gifts / goods? by staunch on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @05:32PM (#562404)
The guy that sells the virtual flowers says that buying them will get you laid? Shocking!
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