Why did AOL go public again??

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For the same reason all companies go public - to enrich the executives and skim some off for the bankers. Maybe they can try to siphon out of aol one last time as it circles the drain - how about a merger with blockbuster?

What's really surprising is that they make any money at all, and that they still do $282 million/qtr in dialup plans?! People still use that? Out of curiosity I tried to figure out the subscriber numbers using cost/month - I couldn't find a link to any prices on aol.com, which is just a clone of that awful mess on yahoo's front page. What a disaster, these people squandered such amazing resources.
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Anywhere from 10-25 dollars/month!
http://free.aol.com/thenewaol/plan_choice.adp?partner=daol

Basically the same price as it was in 1996.
 
AOL, one of the worst run companies in America from the standpoint of maintaining good customer relations, in the same league as Blockbuster, Ebay/PayPal, and Comcast.

This whole business is reminiscent of Blockbuster trying to redeem themselves after totally screwing over their customers.

I sure way of wrecking any competitive business is to piss off your customers.
 
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