What The Heck Is This?

RawAlex · 02-19-2003

Heather, after the $10 credit (for being so nice as to hand over all your personal info and your email address for a lifetime of spam) it is net 89 - but the price is only spelled out, and only at the bottom of the terms, and NOWHERE ELSE on the entire site.

Y'see, I figured it out: You pay $10 per trial to the surfer instead of $35 to a webmaster - and you charge a 3 month minimum and you ONLY use checks (harder to charge back) and you use the $10 deposit as a "qualifier" to make sure the account is good... I suspect this is about a 1 in 2 conversion from trial to paid... with a 3 month retention right off the bat. Nice numbers, compared to what most sites are seeing these days.

Hooper, "fine print" should clarify the points of an offer, not to be the only place that spells out the single most important parts of the offer. The fact that you are paying for something is IMPORTANT, not something that should be disguised and hidden at the bottom of the page, in small letters, written out so that the numbers don't show... that is just a blatant attempt to fuck people over.

More power to them, if they can pull it off.

Alex

02-19-2003	#11
RawAlex Members $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,036	Heather, after the $10 credit (for being so nice as to hand over all your personal info and your email address for a lifetime of spam) it is net 89 - but the price is only spelled out, and only at the bottom of the terms, and NOWHERE ELSE on the entire site. Y'see, I figured it out: You pay $10 per trial to the surfer instead of $35 to a webmaster - and you charge a 3 month minimum and you ONLY use checks (harder to charge back) and you use the $10 deposit as a "qualifier" to make sure the account is good... I suspect this is about a 1 in 2 conversion from trial to paid... with a 3 month retention right off the bat. Nice numbers, compared to what most sites are seeing these days. Hooper, "fine print" should clarify the points of an offer, not to be the only place that spells out the single most important parts of the offer. The fact that you are paying for something is IMPORTANT, not something that should be disguised and hidden at the bottom of the page, in small letters, written out so that the numbers don't show... that is just a blatant attempt to fuck people over. More power to them, if they can pull it off. Alex __________________ Let's go to the edge of disaster Push the pedal and go a little faster Let's slam into a wall at ramming speed Let's go to the edge of a mountain Jump off and lets start countin' Hit the ground and tell me if it bleeds