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To: jsanders2001
Yellowpages could save a LOT of money (and trees) if they stopped printing those monstrous sized phone books. Everybody uses their cell phones or computers to look up phone numbers and addresses now. I guess maybe its about the ad revenue that keeps them going...

The Yellow Pages had an extortion racket before computers were ubiquitous. The phone company had a monopoly and weilded it to extort unconscionable rates on businesses, where exclusion for many businesses meant failure. A small tile company might have to pay out $6000 for a small one liner printed on newspaper stock. The end of the Yellow Pages ability to extort such payments is a Godsend to businesses, especially small businesses.

13 posted on 10/23/2013 5:32:15 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

Exactly.


24 posted on 10/23/2013 7:30:11 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: SampleMan

You must not be a supply and demand kind of person are you?

Do you say the same thing about top heart surgeon’s making a bazillion dollars? I mean they have the skills to save a life, they should do it for whatever their patient can afford right?


27 posted on 10/23/2013 9:43:25 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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