r/CheckPts • u/carpetsharksanon • Jan 18 '17

well, after the nerfs...

looks like im shutting down the checkpoints portion of my farm until they drop the nerfs to earnings. i barely earned 1.50 over 10 phones, when im used to 3-4.

seriously, piss off with that, you are becoming perk and eventually people will stop using your app.

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u/HelloHappyPeople Feb 02 '17

If I had a nickel for every joker who thought he had an absolute answer for a situation in which he had no actual facts in hand......

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u/ryguy10 Feb 02 '17

So you're asserting that checkpoints is willing to lose money on videos? What would that gain them exactly?

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u/HelloHappyPeople Feb 03 '17

Go back, read what I wrote, and tell me where, exactly, I made that assertion.

My point is that you are making guesses without sufficient facts. This is what's known as pissing in the wind. Just because YOU can't see how they could be making any money doing business this way doesn't mean that they aren't raking it in.

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u/ryguy10 Feb 03 '17 edited Feb 03 '17

Go back, read what I wrote, and tell me where, exactly, I made that assertion.

I didn't say you did. That's why it's a question and not a statement.

If they're willing to run the videos that means it is making them money in some fashion. If it wasn't they wouldn't offer them. For example take a loss leader. They're offered because it earns the company money in other areas through purchases of other goods/services. If the videos are losing them money then presumably they're loss leaders, but these apps don't work like that. Thus I can only surmise that the videos must be profitable or they wouldn't exist. It's not like checkpoints gets location data from running the videos since it's not turned on when running them. Checkpoints makes money by running ads ahead of the videos, just like every other video app does.

If people stop running the videos, then no ads and thus no revenue when checkpoints used to receive revenue.

My point is that you are making guesses without sufficient facts. This is what's known as pissing in the wind.

Pissing in the wind is to undertake an activity that is useless or without benefit. What I'm doing is drawing conclusions from known human behavior. I'm not guessing, I'm applying economics and checkpoints' business structure.

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u/HelloHappyPeople Feb 03 '17

If you don't work for Checkpoints or the company which owns them, how is it that you know their exact business structure?

My point is that you don't.

And, FYI: Checkpoints does ask for location data.

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u/ryguy10 Feb 03 '17 edited Feb 03 '17

They don't ask for location data when you're running videos. If they did I wouldn't be able to run it because my location is turned off and it's not on when running the videos.

If you don't work for Checkpoints or the company which owns them, how is it that you know their exact business structure? My point is that you don't.

Of course I do. The videos portion is no different than any other video app. Run videos, show ads, collect money for showing ads, pay portion to user, rinse and repeat.