<<<< i decided to risk my $35 just in case but by no means did i ever think that
it was a sure bet. in this sense i believe that bigtymer and bmitchell have a valid
point. >>>>>Of course they have a point. The point that there is no guarantee
IN risk--which is a self-evident reality. It is inherent. And we all make choices
based upon how much we can or are willing to risk.
Hell, the stock market is the
biggest "Enter at your own risk" endeavor I ever saw.
People win, people lose every
day. People enter into it, people walk away from it every day.
I threw down my
$35.00 with IOD as well--and IOD is STILL a risk, for it is not yet approved.
But
me.....Personally, I prefer to lose my $35, than to kick myself all the rest of my
life because I lost the ideal domain for my business. I know a small handful of people
who stumbled upon IOD, saw their respectively ideal domain, sat on it, thought about
it for months, and then found one day that someone else had decided to pay $35 for
the .web through IOD.
I made a pack with myself, long ago, that I would minimize
the regrets I could possibly have in Life.
We all make choices within the parameters
of Foresight, Experience, Vision, Determination, Will, Timeliness, Education, Preparation,
Belief, Dumb Luck, and perhaps some Divinity.
That is the closest we can ever get
to the notion of "fairness." It is the fairest model that can exist. Yes, fairer
than taking the world and dividing it (as someone else said on this board) into 7
billion equal parts and distributing it among the masses.