Originally Posted by cats academy: “Hahahaha, yeah, good old Syco. Of the 36p it costs to vote, 22p goes to charity!!! The generosity is mind boggling! Syco only makes 14p per vote. So only 100,000 people need to vote to make Syco another million!!! Sickening.”
Syco makes nothing from the vote, the profit (22p) is being donated, 14p goes towards expenses
Originally Posted by BlueStreak: “I read it on the X Factor official site so I think it should be correct. Unless of course there's another flaming twist.
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The twist will be that, if the producers don't like the result of the public vote, they will introduce a judges' choice to make sure they get what they want.
They won't have to return anyone's vote money because "it was for charity".
Originally Posted by cats academy: “Hahahaha, yeah, good old Syco. Of the 36p it costs to vote, 22p goes to charity!!! The generosity is mind boggling! Syco only makes 14p per vote. So only 100,000 people need to vote to make Syco another million!!! Sickening.”
Umm, that 14p per vote is split about 5 different ways.
Originally Posted by devlinacious: “The twist will be that, if the producers don't like the result of the public vote, they will introduce a judges' choice to make sure they get what they want.
They won't have to return anyone's vote money because "it was for charity".”
That wouldn't surprise me in the least. I've just about given up caring what they do now to be honest. I'm just going to take it as it comes. It's a complete and utter shambles and I'll just watch it until the bitter end and let them fight it out among themselves whilst enjoying the banter on here LOL!
Originally Posted by wkdstepmother: “what expenses? if these are demonstrably direct costs only incurred as a result of the phone vote fair enough but are they?
not that it matters because no-one in their right mind is gonna vote surely.”
The 14p will be split between the likes of the network charge, the independent assessors for the vote etc.