[Jangvik]

BBO is great. I have the possibility to play great bridge, join fancy clubs, watch world class players play, get live coverage from Bermuda Bowl with expert commentary, read great colums, try to solve almost impossible double dummy, follow catfights, not to mention all wonderful friends I have met.

And it is all free!
I still can't believe that all this is for free. Horray for freebies.

But one day, not long ago in a galaxy far far away, Fred G and Uday came up with BBO Dollar. My first thought was; great, finally I can give something back.

But all I find there is bridgedeals that is connected to BridgeBase. And of course it should be there. It is your product, and to earn money on it, you need to sell those kind of products. I fully understand that. But it is not for me. I am sitting at computers all day long and trying to earn some salary. When I use the computer at my spare time I am doing it for play bridge with my friends. If I wanted to learn bridge, and gee I really do, I want to read it in a book. Yes, I am one of those who still prefer to read books instead of sitting in front of a screen.
Having the puter in bed is not an option, my genitals is not build to handle computers on it, not to mention how heavy my screen is.

I do see the advantages of having learning program instead of having it in a book. You can play and try by yourself, you don't need a deck to lay the diagrams and so on. However, a book is still a book and I prefer those.

So what is my point? I am wondering if you are going to sell books in the future? If so I would gladly spend a lot of money on them.

I am really looking forward to get a copy of the forthcoming bestseller "BBO Behind the scenes".
Where we will get a bbography of the start of the bbo. And where we will be served with newsbreaking facts from the bbo database. Imagine what interesting data Fred, Sheri and Uday has! Here are some example I would die to have information of.

• Player with worst connection
  
• Player with most nicknames
  
• The stupid question ever said by a player to BBO. Wait a minute, maybe not that one, could be one of mine actually.
  
• Which player who bid most slams
  
• Which player who misplayed most slams
  
• Which player who has been registered shortest time before being banned
  
• Which contract is the most played
  
• Which player who have the best imprating, and worst of course (Could be me again)
  
• What was those zillions z9854 who logged in at the same time a beatiful morning
  
• And lot of other funny statistics

Seriously. Will there be other things in that shop to buy, except more deals?

[inquiry]

I want to spend some of the BBO money too.. think they will give me some. :-)

Seriously though, the bridge master sets are well worth the price.

ben

[1eyedjack]

I just don't understand why you cannot pay via PayPal or NoCHEX.
Perhaps that will come with time.

[uday]

The BBO$ are very new to us

We don't accept paypal ( we dont see a lot of demand for it and I dont think our CC processor accepts it). Someday, of course!

Our first thought was to put up content that was safe and useful -BM fit the bill perfectly. As a bonus, if something screwed up, and the author got hosed, well, it is only Fred.

I have a couple more online things ready to put up (some ports of Larry cohens stuff, some Bridge Today courses, and some Bergen stuff almost ready to go).

But there are other, more creative uses possible. Coming, coming