Startup Airline to offer all-you-can-fly subscriptions for $150/m

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Post by mef » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:47 PM UTC

Startup Airline to offer all-you-can-fly subscriptions for $150/m
planered.com

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Post by blhack » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:26 PM UTC

Am I the only one that absolutely hates these types of pages?

"We really won't tell you any specifics of what we're doing, but give us your email address and we'll be sure to send you advertisements when we decide to!"

Do these things usually work? If it's a YC startup, or is being done by a friend or something, I'll usually give up my email address, but when it's just "we promise the moon! We'll respect your email, honest!", I usually skip it.

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Post by parfe » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:36 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that absolutely hates these types of pages? "We really won't tell you any specifics of what we're doing, but give us your email address and we'll be sure to send you advertisements when we decide to!" Do these things usually work? If it's a YC startup, or is being done by a friend or something, I'll usually give up my email address, but when it's just "we promise the moon! We'll respect your email,…

Of course you aren't the only person.

For me it's the "Stealth Mode" job listings that say "Send us all your information and we might tell you what the company does or what the job entails!" I saw one like this on reddit which claimed to be a seed funded startup in NYC (which is my area, finally!) but didn't describe the company at all.

I wonder if those anonymous ads or recruiting posts get any responses.

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Post by mef » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:41 PM UTC

From the welcome email, which also links to their blog http://planered.tumblr.com/:

Thanks for signing up!

Our goal is to change the way we fly. No more buying outrageously priced tickets. No more lost luggage. No more middle seats in a cramped cabin. And no more TSA.

By signing up we'll make sure you know what's happening as we build our airline - and you'll be among the first to know when we're ready to launch.

A few weeks before we start flying we'll begin selling subscriptions. We will be rewarding our earliest supporters (the first 500), and those who recruit the most friends to PlaneRed with $150/month all-you-can-fly pricing. Obviously, the number of subscriptions we can sell at that price are pretty limited. So please - tell your friends to ensure that you get one!

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Post by mayneack » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that absolutely hates these types of pages? "We really won't tell you any specifics of what we're doing, but give us your email address and we'll be sure to send you advertisements when we decide to!" Do these things usually work? If it's a YC startup, or is being done by a friend or something, I'll usually give up my email address, but when it's just "we promise the moon! We'll respect your email,…

Just use username+PlaneRed@gmail.com so you can filter it all out later if it was a waste of time.

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Post by peteretep » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:47 PM UTC

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Post by mef » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:50 PM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #6

More from Forbes: http://blogs.forbes.com/edzitron/2011/06/29/planered/

Interestingly, they will exclusively fly 9-passenger planes in order to skirt the TSA rule of screening for planes that fly 10 or more.

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Post by iaskwhy » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:51 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that absolutely hates these types of pages? "We really won't tell you any specifics of what we're doing, but give us your email address and we'll be sure to send you advertisements when we decide to!" Do these things usually work? If it's a YC startup, or is being done by a friend or something, I'll usually give up my email address, but when it's just "we promise the moon! We'll respect your email,…

I like the idea and I have subscribed sometimes already without having ever been abused. But it has that potential, yes.

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Post by eiji » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:52 PM UTC

Now I got it!

  ... starting at $150/m!

Add one or two zeros and you will be closer to the truth.

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Post by Retric » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:56 PM UTC

mayneack wrote: post #5

blhack wrote: post #2

Am I the only one that absolutely hates these types of pages? "We really won't tell you any specifics of what we're doing, but give us your email address and we'll be sure to send you advertisements when we decide to!" Do these things usually work? If it's a YC startup, or is being done by a friend or something, I'll usually give up my email address, but when it's just "we promise the moon! We'll respect your email,…

Just use username+PlaneRed@gmail.com so you can filter it all out later if it was a waste of time.

It's also vary easy to strip out username+@gmail.com to username@gmail.com. Honestly, if I had a list of email address I was about to spam it's one of the first steps I would take.