So I Figured Out a Way to Pay For a Premium Chess.com Membership

Here it goes: as you know, ALL free chess.com members adore advertisements. Well, so do I. And it's pretty obvious that there are 3 ads per chess.com page on the forums. Well, I think I could pay for a premium membership on chess.com through these ads.

So, correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe that chess.com gets paid a certain amount of money for every click an ad on a page gets. So if I click on 3 ads on a chess.com page, chess.com gets paid a little bit for those ads. Subtract the cost of me visiting the page and you'll get the net revenue.

So why not have my pay for my membership by clicking on every single ad on every single page I visit on chess.com? And the formula for calculating my payment would be very simple:

((Revenue of 3 ads per page) - (cost of me visiting 1 page)) x (# of pages visited) = Net earnings chess.com gets from me

And to make this seem as fair as possible, consider the fact that I NEVER [purposely] click on chess.com ads (not even the ones with the hot chicks). Chess.com wins and so do I! I sincerely think that my proposition is efficient and useful and should be implemented for everybody who can't afford the membership otherwise.

[Or I could get a day job and pay like everybody else but that's no fun]

So, whatcha think about that? I know, I'm a genius!

LOL 

If everybody merely clicked on the ads with no intention of ever buying anything, it probably wouldn't pay for itself enough to replace premium membership fees.

Extremely clever.  My Diamond Membership just expired and I am holding out on better content for the beginning chess player before paying for a new membership.

Are you sure on the math, because I was always a Diamond Member in the past and never saw all of these adds before?  I am getting many strange adds that have nothing to do with chess, so I think that the ad agencies are mentally challenged, because I have no interest in purchasing a Barbie Doll.

I am not kidding. I've seen an add for Barbie on this chess site and all sorts of other strange non-chess stuff. I'm mystified, but am having fun clicking on a few of the adds for kicks and giggles. Is this helping chess.com earn some money back for all of the trouble I caused?

I don't know if you have read or seen my thread - Diamond Membership a Waste of Money and other things - but it currently has 3835 Views and 184 Comments
and is still a Hot Topic. I will probably have to pay double for all the dust and trouble I have kicked up.

Ad agencies are mentally challenged and the one directly below this thread (for me) is trying to give me a severe case of epileptic seizures (thankfully, it's not succeeding). In fact, it's not joking that I'm the the 100,000th visitor to this page and I should be congratulated and click here to see what I've won, etc. (details apply). The one to my right suggests I buy a bundle of TV + Internet + Phone services from 1 company to save myself a lot of cash, because they're very user-friendly and are a non-profit corporation that loves to give people great service at their own cost. On top is an advertisement for car insurance because I'm a 16-50+ year old driver who needs affordable insurance.

Looks like my lucky day! I get a free prize, great AND cheap TV, Internet, and phone services, and cheap car insurance all on the same day! Oh wait...

Oh my! Stop the press! My first chess ad! I am dead serious.

USA's Largest Chess Store 

Is it true? Is it really the biggest chess store in America?

I once ate a raccoon and it squawked like a chicken. Does that count as a victory?

I always leave Live Chess with a nuclear bomb exit ("KABOOM"). Does that count as a victory?

I guess you would have to click on a looooooot of ads.

If you want a membership that much, I'm wondering why you won't pay !

Paying... psssh, overrated. What do you think I am, an honest, hardworking individual? Oh wait...

well chess.com onwer eric is it a deal

I believe the rate is $.15 per 1000 clicks. You would be busy.

so to pay for a 13.00 membership you have to click 966,660 times to get there

 Ah, one variable is there. Let's calculate this. :)

$0.15 / 1000 = $0.00015 per ad click.

We then have: 1 page (P) = 3 x $0.00015 for 3 ads - cost of visiting the page

($0.00045 - C) = P

Then we'll have the prices of each of the memberships.

1 Year Gold membership = $2.49 per month = more than 16,600 clicks per month

(2.49 = P x (0.00045 - C))

1 Month Gold membership = $4.99 per month = more than 33,200 clicks per month

(4.99 = P x (0.00045 - C))

1 Year Platinum membership = $3.99 per month = more than 26,600 clicks per month

(3.99 = P x (0.00045 - C))

1 Month Platinum membership = $5.99 per month = more than 53,200 clicks per month

(5.99 = P x (0.00045 - C))

1 Year Diamond membership = $7.99 per month = more than 53270 clicks per month

(7.99 = P x (0.00045 - C))

1 Month Diamond membership = $12.99 per month = more than 86,600 clicks per month

(12.99 = P x (0.00045 - C))

Clearly, the 1 month Diamond membership will give my flexor digitorum profundus and superficialis the most exercise - I'll go for that!

EDIT: I posted values for 3 clicks per page... it'll be 3x what I previously wrote.

RE-EDIT: I fixed the values and made my edits smaller. :)

lol nice...

Wow, just think- I could pay for my diamond membership by only spending roughly 481 minutes per month clicking(assuming I can click a minimum of three times per second, of course)

LOL, I dont think Erik and the C.c staff would go for this...

Here's how I'd calculate it: I could manage 250-300 clicks per minute for 10-20 minutes without a problem (I've done it before... eh, don't ask why), assuming I'm clicking the same place. Well, in this case... yeah, you'll have 2-3 clicks plus movement with all these ads... and lag once in a while. Let's say about 20 ads per minute then, considering everything.

For the 1 month diamond membership, we'd have 86,600+ ads - let's say 96,000 ads considering the cost per page visist. 96,000 / ~30 days = 3,200 ads per day. 3,200 ads / (20 ads / minute) = 160 minutes / day clicking ads nonstop --> 2 hours, 40 minutes to pay for 1 day of membership, or $0.43.

This is means I'd be making 16.2 cents per hour and giving it directly to chess.com. Slightly below minimum wage.

But hey, at least half of the ads have girls.

Wow, what a great way to earn money

I have an idea, why dont we create a machine that clicks all the advertisments on the internet and with that money we end with the hunger in the whole world?

Imagine all the people, clicking ads in peace.

Imagine all the people, living for the chicks. hojo hooo.

It appears that number-crunching doesn't appeal to most of you. I mean really - who needs number crunchers? I mean, they're just one of the foundations of just about every business, corporation, incorporation, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. that ever existed. Yeah, number crunchers are waaay overrated.

So I'll entertain you. I'm going to tell you about one time I decided to take the stairs.

OK, that was miserable. Here, I'll make up for it (click on the stairs):