Xingtone Goes Free

steve, never got a post from you offline. I think my email`s in the
header somewhere. but yes, it`s a tough decision. you can only hope
you`re doing the right thing. what we do know is that downloads and
use is completely out of hand right now and so far so good on the
complaint department. I guess time will tell.

send brad a message at xingtone, he`d probably be a good guy to talk
to if you want.

rich
xingtone






On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:50:10 -0500, Steven J Sobol
<[email protected]> wrote:

>!R[Xingtone] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, Just to let you know that you can now download and use the Desktop
>> application for FREE. Not sure how long we`re going to do this but, at
>> least for the next several months.
>>
>> www.xingtone.com to signup and download, send all the ringers you want
>> to your mobile.
>>
>> Before folks start posting the biting messages, you DO have to give us
>> three email addresses of your friends so its not completely free but,
>> at least no money will change hands. We hope that if enough people
>> will give us real email addresses, we can keep it free forever. Not
>> sure if that can happen but we`re gonna try.
>
>This is a horrible, horrible idea, and I'm not saying that to flame you,
>but to keep you from getting yourself into a lot of trouble.
>
>Perhaps you should try to come up with another promotion.
>
>> launch in March so, its not like we send out a message every other day
>> and if you reply with UNSUBSCRIBE, you`ll be taken off.
>
>That doesn't make it ok for Joe to sign up his friend Jane for mailings.
>If Jane didn't subscribe on her own, it's spam.
>
>> Rich at Xingtone
>
>I CC'd this post to you. If you want, maybe we can talk over e-mail and
>try to come up with some other ideas. I think, however, that you need to stop
>your current promotion now before your site gets nuked for spamming. And I
>know that, free or not, I'll never download a single ringtone if I have to
>give you three e-mail addresses in order to do so.

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yep, made us take it down. really strange, we thought it was great
sprint advertising. enormous amount of traffic those first few weeks.





On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:29:38 GMT, O/Siris <robjvargas@sprîntpcs.côm>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>, !R[Xingtone]
>[email protected] says...
>> the sprintpcs website was the most clicked through link we had on our
>> page until they made us take it down. ??? go figure.
>>
>
>We made you not link to us???
>
>Really, really, odd.
>
>Oh well. Best of luck to you.