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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by mynameishere on Sunday November 04, 2007 @03:42PM (#76083)
What story could you possibly make this into except, "Rich fucks pay to get ahead of poor sick people in emergency rooms?"
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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by tkiley on Sunday November 04, 2007 @03:45PM (#76087)
Users of this service aren't allowed to "get ahead of" anyone. This service only allows people to wait at home rather than waiting in the ER; the wait time is still the same, it's only a bit more comfortable.

Thanks for your input. ;-)

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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by mynameishere on Sunday November 04, 2007 @09:32PM (#76171)
Users of this service aren't allowed to "get ahead of" anyone

That is rather clearly the whole point, but I'm not going to argue with you--I'm just alterting you to the fact that the public response to this will be overwhelmingly anti-elitist. As such, any advertising should probably be targeted.

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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by gscott on Sunday November 04, 2007 @03:47PM (#76089)
Yes that is the story. Everyone wants to be rich and the guy who gets into the emergency room first. Kind of like those people who go to the front of the line at Disneyland.
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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by rksprst on Sunday November 04, 2007 @10:16PM (#76180)
Actually, you don't pay anything for those fast passes. If you have a ticket you just get them for free next to the ride. Everyone can do that.
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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by rms on Sunday November 04, 2007 @10:20PM (#76183)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65100
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Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito... by jraines on Sunday November 04, 2007 @07:46PM (#76157)
You mean the people who are smart enough to buy Fastpasses?
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