Seriously .. think of the best game you ever played .. how much did you buy it for .. then look at what people are paying here. They are trading on dreams not a reality - games often perform below expectations upon release. Items sold here can be bought / earned in game .. I strongly suspect when you get the game and after 50 hours of playing can upgrade your ship to a $250 ship - they won't be sold for $250 any more.

I had an alert from itunes that my account had downloaded a free game from an international IP on the weekend.and to reset the password if it wasn't me... I had used the same old password on both I'm pretty sure (though I setup a Ubi Soft account only as I needed to play a game years ago).

I mean once you go down to earning a livable wage in say Malaysia. Can you move out to a country that costs more to live? You wouldn't save enough to make the move and your clients would probably be miffed at the increased charge rates you pull to do it.

But that goes on the assumption people are willing to 'tip'. In the US that's a cultural jump that can possibly happen - since I believe you tip on a lot of 'services' usually personally delivered. But in other places it is not so common.

By lost business opportunity I thought you were going to say set the listed number to a pay-per minute one. Of course for real customers and shop signage /local adverts / business cards show the normal number - but don't have it publicly listed in the phone book.

Fuel Cell? would make it quick to "recharge" in the field too?

TFTFY

Well that's just it though isn't it, the voters are people who think other need to know what they think is cool and want to influence the list. Doesn't that make them likely to proper-gate their votes online to influence others and to make themselves 'look cool' when the songs they voted for do well'. Isn't this similar to people who put vote for X signs on their lawns?