Based in San Francisco, closely held Strava is also used by runners, who can win a CR course record for posting the fastest time on a particular segment. (About half of Strava runners are women.) The site charges a fee for premium services such as analysis of heart-rate data.
Those who buy them, own the home but pay a pitch fee to the site operator, who owns the land and imposes rules and regulations.
The company will pay the Browns a flat fee for the arrangement, then keep all revenue from the transactions done over its site (it will charge a 10% fee to buyers and 15% to sellers).
Fetchmob now lets askers put a request for service out on the site to buy and deliver requested items for a fee.
After reviewing the site, and paying a small fee, I registered, and then swapped my Manhattan apartment with a couple from Lisbon, Portugal.
Rather than host shows and compete for traffic, it provides links to an episode's location, be it free on a network site (such as CBS or ABC) or for a fee (on sites like Netflix and Amazon).
You could imagine a scenario where AARP pays Tripping a fee to set up its own page on the site so that retirees on the road can connect with local AARP members for a round of golf, a place to stay, or recommendations for quiet restaurants.
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Time Warner has provided its customers with a site to lodge complaints with programmers demanding fee increases as high as 300%.
Naturally, Metique plans to earn a fee on every transaction on the site.
Online arrangement, the site pays the film distribution company a licensing fee.
Web site winebid.com charges buyers a fee of 14% and sellers up to 18% and looks for swindles by inspecting the wine for tampering, among other things.
The site aggregates information about annuities and charges a fee for each annuity purchase for the service and the research provided.
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As early as 2001, pharma company Eli Lilly invested in a site called Innocentive to allow researchers to post scientific challenges which community members could contribute to solving for a fee.
The site is free to use but will soon charge a fee for premium services, such as uploading video or a book of shared photos and memories.
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For an additional fee, a dating service could offer on-site assistance, perhaps in the form of a woman who arranges to dine at the next table, so she can eavesdrop on how the client is doing.
For a fee, Hikari leases PCs and connections to servers located off-site.
Many bundling arrangements take the form of site-licensing agreements, under which companies or other organisations pay a single fee for unlimited online access to a database, say, or a software package.
No word yet from Change.org, which claimed credit for pushing BofA to drop its debit fee after 300, 000 consumers signed a petition last year on its site denouncing it.
While the journalism, media and cookbook categories call for self-nomination (and an entry fee), anyone can suggest a chef or restaurant via the foundation's Web site, jamesbeard.org, during an open call in the fall.
For a fee, Cape.com will help you set up secure commerce software, host your web site, or even run a high-speed connection to your school or law firm.
The site is free to businesses for approximately the first 100 messages sent to customers, then kicks into a monthly subscription fee for any amount over that.
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