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Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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matdwyer wrote: post #3

Very smart, but is it against the TOS to bid directly on the trademark/company name? Often times it is. That being said, they likely will not care with you being an extremely small player and bringing them 32 new customers. Solid Hack, congrats edit - CPC are going sky high after this :-) people might want to wait for a few weeks to let others forget

I'm not sure. I didn't bother looking at this. I spoke to someone at Dropbox about this and he's seen the numbers, he seemed to be more interested in what I did rather than reprimanding me for doing it.

Thing is that everyone maxes out at some point. You can only have so many referrals. Once you give them 32 new customers, you stop running the ads and move on with life.

Also, you're just re-routing the new customers. They would have signed up potentially on their own (as you can see the multitude of clicks from the keyword 'dropbox'), so I imagine that could be the only problem for them - acquiring customers by having to give you extra space that would have signed up without having to give anyone extra space.

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