tubularjohnny

Hey Scott, I run a somewhat similar site/service (www.freefoodguy.com) where I share free or heavily discounted food deals with people. Even though I probably have an order of magnitude smaller reach than you do, the subscriber list is large enough that there's a sort of "Free Food Guy Effect"--when I share a deal/loophole I've found, thousands people can stampede to the deal leading the restaurant to immediately shut it down. This happened with a Papa John's loophole I had exploited for months to get tons of Free pizza--shortly I shared it with the FFG community, the loophole was closed.

Do you notice a similar effect with Scott's Cheap Flights? When you share a deal, tons of people stampede toward it resulting in it quickly get yanked? I guess the concern is that as SCF grows and becomes more well known, it paradoxically becomes less useful because now any deal you share will be swept up before the vast majority of subscribers has a chance to see it. I'm curious if you've thought about how to address this as SCF grows in popularity--more and more premium tiers where the more you pay, the earlier you learn about the deals?

That's great to hear! I'm planning a trip to Europe sometime in May or June, so I plan on becoming a paid subscriber soon and am hoping something good will come my way. Thanks for doing what you do!