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In economics & business, specifically cost accounting, the break-even point (BEP) is the point at which cost or expenses and revenue are equal: there is no net loss or gain, and one has "broken even". A profit or a loss has not been made, although opportunity costs have been paid, and capital has received the risk-adjusted, expected return.

Thanks for the direct feedback. We know these are controversial. We work with outside aggregators who negotiate and aggregate the deals. We actually investigated and rejected the largest company (that was the most enthusiastic about working with gaia) because they wouldn't let us actively filter out the poor deals. The company we're working with has more flexibility (not complete) to filter and we did a lot of filtering before we launched. Clearly not enough sad . Today we've gotten most of the ones that are causing problems off and still working on it tonight.

We are still working our way to being break-even as a company and we believe that offering people another option to get items without paying gaia directly - as an option for those who are interested - is overall a good thing, that helps us cover more of our costs as well. But we have work to do still to make this program good overall.

Because it makes a ton of money. I looked at just 14 offers, which ranged from 17~200 dollars in cash, and added up how much money was generated in the past hour. I assumed that Gaia makes at least the amount they give out, and the amount of people completing it in the past hour was accurate. From ONLY those 14 offers, they've made $40,634.

Of course, this is all speculation. They might make more or less, and the number of people who have completed it might be wrong. I could see them fluffing up the numbers to make it seem more trustworthy. Unfortunately, if it is accurate, the only reason they have to stop is for the safety of their users.