Re: Practice: Pay-Per-Use

There is something about pay per use that I don't like. I don't really
know what it is, but (perhaps its just the wording - pay, pay, pay). 
Renting a video from a store could be perceived as per per use, and
ordering a pay TV movie would certainly be that as well. Somehow I see
pay TV more as pay per use than renting a video from a store, even if
this does not make logical sense to me.

Perhaps what I don't like about pay per use is what's so good about it
in terms of feedback -- it reminds me that I have to pay every day.

Just think about cars for one second.  If you had to put money down
every time you got into your car to pay for the real car costs (not
just the gas!) - this would provide good feedback on how much you are
actually spending every day.  The cost of longer trips would become
very apparent.  Taxi rides are also pay per use,  which make costs
very apparent. I suspect many people would use cabs instead of owning
a car if the costs were really in your face.

>From a business perspective, pay per use probably makes a great deal
of sense.  I also appreciate what Kent is saying about money as the
ultimate feedback, and how it can help to create even more value. 
Still, there's something about it I don't like.

Friedrich Brunzema
Extreme Programmer & Coach