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Yes, very much professionalism including such recent email threads titled "Russian Anal Probing"

which blacklist gives you zero reason? there are certainly some rogue blacklists out there, and some blacklists should not be used by companies

I think what we're seeing is both: 1) more cut-throat competition to have the lowest advertised price (the ads just display the minimum available price, not the price of a service that actually meets a customer's need) AND 2) once you get a customer on your platform, they are likely to upgrade and/or add more services which will be at the higher price points.

I don't think the market shifted away from owning/renting servers (IaaS?) - I think part of the shift was from web-based startups and companies having just development teams to having "devops" teams. Devops replaces the managed service that Rackspace hung its hat on.

If your ISP and/or Aspira were making any significant amount of affiliate commissions, I would be surprised if the merchants do not take action against them for fraud.

This sounds like the same behaviour that Shawn Hogan got in trouble for with cookie stuffing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Hogan

fast and nice clean interface. I would like to see a 'run now' button when adding a thing to watch to see if it works immediately.

do you have a specific target audience for this?

any immediate plans for service outside of san francisco area?

The video and the website don't show how buyers find the items for sale, and how the meetup is arranged. Perhaps you could add a "how it works" section to the website.