It is a very difficult service to rate for several reasons. One is their “pricing” model. For one, a price is mainly (if not only) connected to trade, else the notion of “price” won’t even exist. Second, in order to get their services you have to either pay what you want (so yes, a trade), or they will give you a “free pass” card https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PYv5pmU.png. What if you do not want any of that? And you simply want their services but do not care about the free pass or do not want to pay them anything? Can you do that? Why isn’t there a way to just access the services without any conditions?

Drugič, ponujajo številne storitve, ki se zdijo popolnoma nepovezane: WEBDESIGN (gostovanje, programiranje, oblikovanje, trženje); SVETOVANJE (Coaching, reševanje problemov, poslovne strategije); GOVORNA ZGODBA (Sreča, Depresija, Anksioznost, Uspeh). In te storitve so na voljo samo prek zasebnih sredstev, kot je e-pošta. Nobenega od tega ne moremo preveriti.

I personally think that if they rely on some trades as explained above, this will create an imbalance of power and a bad incentive. What if the ones paying will be prioritized over those who do not!? I do not trust any such schemes since I’ve seen countless of times how they lead to bad outcomes. In my view this is not a trade-free service since they do allow for some voluntary trades that will, in time, influence their priorities, and second we can’t even check if what they offer is trade-free since all it is done via private means such as email.

Če bi želeli ponuditi vadnice ali pomoč pri spletnem oblikovanju, bi lahko posneli videoposnetke o tem in jih brezplačno objavili na spletu na archive.org ali podobnih brezplačnih storitvah, ali če bi želeli zagotoviti vse vrste "pogovornih" storitev, kot so razprave in posvetovanja, bi morali to storiti, ne da bi ljudem pošiljali njihove brezplačne karte ali zahtevali, da plačajo, kolikor želijo. To bi preprosto zagotovili in če bi potrebovali finančno pomoč, bi preprosto prosili za donacije, ki so prostovoljni prispevki, ne glede na to, ali od njih zahtevate storitev ali ne.

W.A.I.T. – What Am I Trading? Well, it’s a bit confusing, since the website asks you to pay either nothing or pay what you want (https://99power.org/pricing). I find this in contrast to offer something without asking anything in return and relying on donations with a donation page, where you can donate if you want. What if the website gets 5 e-mails about using the service and 2 of those use the pay nothing option and 3 of those use the pay what you want option. Will everyone get the same service? What if one of those 3 who pay something pays 10€, the other one 50€ and the third one 300€? Will the one with 300€ get a better or faster service? I think that could be a slippery slope.

Druga stvar, ki me bega, je ponudba »poslovnega svetovanja« (https://99power.org/about – https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sPf4mPn.png). To je tudi v osupljivem nasprotju z idejo o breztrgovinski menjavi, saj gre pri poslovanju predvsem za trgovino. Toda če je ponudba poslovnega svetovanja brez trgovanja, potem je to storitev brez trgovanja. Podobno kot bi sveto pismo ponujali kot prostotrgovinsko, čeprav je biblija bedarija in neznanstvena.

Zato ne vem točno, kaj naj s tem. Rekel bi, da če želijo zagotoviti "spletno oblikovanje, kodiranje, programiranje, poslovne nasvete in splošno svetovanje" kot storitev brez trgovanja, bi morali samo to ponuditi in ustvariti stran, kjer sprejemajo donacije, in to je to. Brez zmede, brez sranja – samo brezplačna storitev.

Prav tako želim omeniti trgovska omrežja na spletnem mestu na dnu (https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dzPEBnr.png). Vendar se zdi, da na spletnem mestu ni sledilcev.

Za zdaj bi dal 3 od 5 blokov in bi rad, da drugi ljudje komentirajo to, da bi videli njihove argumente.