The Duggars and CollegePlus

[bmills072200]

It could be a psychological thing. People will strongly defend something that they spent a lot of money on whether it was worth it or not. They have to justify in their minds and others that it was worth it. It's a defense mechanism to try to put their subconscious at ease.

So, Sanantone... I have finally read through all of this thread and I think I understand your point of view. I am not going to argue that $3,000 is a reasonable fee for CP's services. But I do not think that is really relevant to the conversation. The market gets to decide what is a fair fee for their services.

I would just like to ask you a simple question. If the mission of all of us on this site is to build knowledge and awareness about college education options, specifically DE, and to help people save money, which it appears that you have admitted is something you enjoy doing, than would the fight for this cause be better or worse if CP did not exist?

If CP did not exist, many people that are ignorant to the options that are out there would never learn about them because they are not resourceful enough to find this site or other similar sites. One thing that I think has been discounted throughout this discussion is that what CP does is not without its overhead. They have a staff of people and they obviously spend a lot of money marketing the company in order to get their customers. Most of those customers are people that would likely have never learned about different DE options if not for CP.

So, because CP charges a fee that you find personally egregious, you slam them on a public forum??? This does not compute for me. Your motivation to help others is clear based upon the number of posts that you have contributed and the amount of time that you have been on this forum and I'm sure many other forums. I just think it is unfair to deride a company that is making a profit by providing information that we provide for free. How much money have you spent marketing your knowledge about distance education? Have you gone to homeschooling conventions and spent the time and money to teach others about what you know? If you had spent the time and money to do those things, would you not want to be compensated?

I applaud CP for what they have done and I am hugely jealous that I did not think of it first!