We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
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Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
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#3Cool website and service, but, is anyone else tired of businesses using this recent tragedy to advertise?
Edit: Also pretty sure this is a little to late for victims of hurricane sandy who lost thier computers.
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#4Just what they need to get their lives back together [/sarcasm]
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#5This seems like an iffy marketing thing to do to try to advertise and get users. Why not detail what else you've done to help those whose lives were upended by the hurricane? Why does your business have to come into it at all? Did you do anything other than decide to arbitrarily give not-really-free accounts to people when that won't help them rebuild afterward? (If you're still charging them $.01 a year, that's still charging them something. You ought to fix that.)
Either way, looks like a nice gesture, but one that's ultimately meaningless since I doubt a lot of the victims care about your service. It's rather useless compared to actual help.
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#6Cool website and service, but, is anyone else tired of businesses using this recent tragedy to advertise? Edit: Also pretty sure this is a little to late for victims of hurricane sandy who lost thier computers.
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Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#7This seems like an iffy marketing thing to do to try to advertise and get users. Why not detail what else you've done to help those whose lives were upended by the hurricane? Why does your business have to come into it at all? Did you do anything other than decide to arbitrarily give not-really-free accounts to people when that won't help them rebuild afterward? (If you're still charging them $.01 a year, that's stil…
I understand your points. It's why we wanted to give free unlimited lifetime accounts instead of a free year or something else to monetize.
> It's rather useless compared to actual help.
Arguments against helping in ways that have specific impact (providing food, assisting with relocation, etc) are a straw man. It's not better to do nothing than something of small value.
I have plenty of photo albums in my closet and if those somehow got lost or destroyed then I'd be devastated (more than any other physical object in my house).
> If you're still charging them $.01 a year, that's still charging them something. You ought to fix that.
Really? If we get more feedback like that then we're happy to change or give refunds. We're set up for subscriptions so it's the easiest way to do address verification. If a penny a year is too much, we'll gladly fix it.
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#8Just what they need to get their lives back together [/sarcasm]
Not sure if you read the post but it does mention that a free account on a website isn't much but it's better than something. It's a tragic situation but the post hopefully kept the magnitude of the situation in mind.
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#9This seems like an iffy marketing thing to do to try to advertise and get users. Why not detail what else you've done to help those whose lives were upended by the hurricane? Why does your business have to come into it at all? Did you do anything other than decide to arbitrarily give not-really-free accounts to people when that won't help them rebuild afterward? (If you're still charging them $.01 a year, that's stil…
I understand your points. It's why we wanted to give free unlimited lifetime accounts instead of a free year or something else to monetize. > It's rather useless compared to actual help. Arguments against helping in ways that have specific impact (providing food, assisting with relocation, etc) are a straw man. It's not better to do nothing than something of small value. I have plenty of photo albums in my closet and…
> Arguments against helping in ways that have specific impact (providing food, assisting with relocation, etc) are a straw man. It's not better to do nothing than something of small value.
My argument isn't to do nothing - again, this looks like a nice gesture - but that you should do more. Maybe take all your earnings for a month and donate them to help the victims. You can evidently afford to give out almost-free accounts, can you do anything better?
> I have plenty of photo albums in my closet and if those somehow got lost or destroyed then I'd be devastated (more than any other physical object in my house).
Then scan them and throw them on Dropbox. Your service actively costs the victims money, Dropbox does not, so which helps more?
> Really? If we get more feedback like that then we're happy to change or give refunds. We're set up for subscriptions so it's the easiest way to do address verification. If a penny a year is too much, we'll gladly fix it.
These are people who are already financially strained by the hurricane. They may not even have a penny anymore. Did you consider this?
Re: We're giving free unlimited lifetime accounts to victims of Hurricane Sandy
#10Cool website and service, but, is anyone else tired of businesses using this recent tragedy to advertise? Edit: Also pretty sure this is a little to late for victims of hurricane sandy who lost thier computers.
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Yes, the intent was to not profit off the situation. It's why the free accounts are lifetime ones and not something that expires and then forces the user(s) to pay.
If there's anything to be done to make that more clear we're happy to update the offer.