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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
So the question is, if it's damaging to your biz, why line up to jump off? And why have so many? I'm trying to relate to a program owner's perspective here, because I'm not one. I guess the closest thing I can think of as an analogy is how designers have a tendency to continue cutting their fees to nearly nothing, and in the case of "design contests" to literally nothing except for the "lucky" winner. I consider those things damaging to my business, and so I do not "jump off the bridge".
Only the program owners can explain why they do the things they do. I think they're all a little nutty anyway. 
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I think it boils down to Shap's earlier comment, those who want longevity 'steady as she goes' with a decent product/service vs those who want to make the most amount of money selling crap, the fastest way possible, by any means possible. If you're selling shit, and you know you're selling shit, and that sooner or later people are gonna catch on that it's shit and move on. Then you're presented with an opportunity to sell 100x more shit in the same amount of time, who wouldn't take that? You're already selling shit so your standards and perhaps morals are pretty low as-is
Maybe not the best example but hopefully you get my point..
See in your example, the designer is hurting other designers perhaps. I understand principles of competition and heck in my mainstream biz back in the old days, I was constantly undercut by competition because I wouldn't lower my prices, etc and that's part of the game. But in the case of shady programs and scammers, they are not only hurting the industry, the programs, our reputation, our lifeblood (visa, merchant banks, etc), they are also hurting our customer base. Their ripples reach many shores..