Re: UKNM: Underwriting phone bill

[Greg Plumbly]

>> Have any ecommerce sites offered to explicitly reimburse customers for

>> time spent on their site if they pruchase something? One could either

>> do it with a counter (you spent 27 minutes here, so at 4p a minute

>> we'll discount your purchase 1 pound 12) or just do like easyJet and

>> offer a pound off for web purchases, but tie it explicitly to a

>> discount for the metered rate, which would pay for somethig between 25

>> and a hundred minutes, depending on the telco charge.

>

> Er, are you serious?  You can't actually measure how long anyone looks at a

> page - you can only measure the time spent between various clicks within your

> site.  Using this scheme would encourage people to open up several browsers,

> go to several stores, and spend forever going from page to page, dropping the

> line every now and again.  Besides, almost everything available on the net is

> cheaper anyway - there's your discount!

>


im not suggesting it is a practical idea but surely it is possible to

measure how long it has been since a registered user logged in and use an

idle timeout after say 30 mins if there have been no clicks by that user.


Beenz use a little java applet on some sites to award points based on time

spent. (this is not cumulative, just x beenz for a specified time)

http://www.aclweb.com/beenz/index.html


Greg


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