WORLD OF RAWR
A Late Night Thought or Two: Wrestling Videos and Purchasing 🌠
So it's 1:06AM Eastern US and there's a meteor shower happening on Animal Crossing, so I'm wishing on stars and thinking about wrestling videos.
Over the course of time I've been home, I've found a couple where I'm like "I'd like these..." but as with most things, there's the struggle about cost vs value. Cost being "this thing is x amount of money" and value being "how many times am I going to watch and enjoy this in its entirety". Most of this you have discern from a 1-minute (or thereabout) trailer whether or not you'll enjoy the other 15-30 minutes of video content. It's taken a few years to finally see enough things to go, "Huh, this would be good. I should actually buy this.
Right after that is the issue of membership models. On the one hand, recurring revenue is great. The reasons this is a thing are obvious, but on my end of it is that consideration of value again – am I going to watch enough video (how many videos is that even) to make it worth paying that membership fee or would I be better served buying the few things I know I'll like the majority of watching?
The closest I've seen to a model that works for me is the type on BWN where they give you a week-long pass to watch whatever you want to. It gives me enough time to peruse and go "I really like a lot of matches here, let me just go ahead and be a full-fledged member" or "I like some of these matches, but only a few. Let me just get a new pass when I'm in the mood to watch them or just buy those outright and not worry otherwise." That was super nice and I think it's good for everyone all around. Especially people like me who will think about a thing for a long while before they buy it otherwise.
That's all for today. I wished on so many stars during the meteor shower in this game that I hit a maximum achievement.
grapplerblk (11)
11/28/2021 6:46 PMI resonate with the OPs comments and I tend to go that route, particularly wth BWN too (day or weeklong), sometimes Cassinelli muscle. I have very specific interests and only a couple vendors scratch that itch, and intermittently at that so the previews, still pics, match themes, wrestlers involved, their tendencies, etc, all help me decide. Its always good to have buds to ask questions of too, esp if they are into the same type of content.
synxiec (75)
11/28/2021 10:30 PM(In reply to this)
Trying to get more into this too. The quiet part out loud is that most of the things I buy are because friends let me try things out or watch enough of a thing that I’m like “this is worth the buy”
GINGERMAN (8)
11/28/2021 5:22 PMOur fellow member's thoughts suggest to me that he hasn't been touched with what has been called "the Marin County attitude," which for those not in the know is "I want it all NOW." Cost is an objective thing; value is subjective. Cost is generally looked upon only in the short term, which may be a major mistake. How resources, especially monetary ones, are parceled out may prove more useful in the future. Ah, but value, there is a tricky thing. We are a consumer dominated society. Fads and fashion dictate many of our actions. And, some of these often prove to be foolish when looking back on our acquisitions. I wish this member good judgment, and the patience that will be necessary to arrive at it.