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Deals like this are a double edged sword. They really are great for people who have been sitting on the fence. But new customers who recently signed up... tho
by RBr 16y ago
Deals like this are a double edged sword.
They really are great for people who have been sitting on the fence.
But new customers who recently signed up... those new customers all feel shunned and wish that they had of waited.
- dholowiski 16y agoAgreed, but maybe they'll make it up with a nice new year's present, like they did last year (ram increase)? Yes, definitely a double edged sword.
- StavrosK 16y agoOr old customers who've been with them for years... You can't please everyone, I guess.
- Xuzz 16y agoI just signed up Sunday. I feel betrayed :(. Maybe I can just cancel my account and move somewhere else that has a new-customer deal for the holidays.
- jodrellblank 16y ago"I got exactly what I agreed to. I feel betrayed!"
- Xuzz 16y agoBetrayed isn't the right word, but it certainly doesn't make me happy :/.
- sudonim 16y agoThat's irrational. You found the service valuable at the price point you paid. They're running a promotion where new customers get a credit. Another persons deal doesn't make yours less valuable... it's perception.
- zach 16y agoEntirely irrational but people are people. Have you seen the "Ice Cream" ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl67TNDW-0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl67TNDW-0Q
- Xuzz 16y agoI know it's irrational. That's not my point.
- jodrellblank 16y agoSo fix it. You see something happening which makes you feel bad, presumably you don't want to feel bad, so find the bug in your thought processes and correct it. How would you like to feel instead? Happy that the trade you did was fair at the time, and also happy for the people getting a good deal? Sounds good. There's your unit test: imagine linode offer. Current result: feel bad (q: how, precisely?). Desired result: feel good. Now all you need to do is fix it as if you were fixing a bug report - explore why and how you feel bad (observing what actually happens in your head instead of what you think ought to be happening) and what you would need to change (in your head, not in the world) so you can feel good instead. Keep trying things and rerunning the test of imagining the linode offer as a check of whether you have successfully changed anything. The essence of mindhacking in one HN comment. You could pay a therapist loads and not get to that heart of the matter, which is the old stereotyped Buddhism trope that the world is fine and if you feel bad, it's your job to fix your feelings, not the world.
- JshWright 16y agoOr you could look at this as a potential huge revenue boost for a company that you do business with. It's also a company that has a history of increasing the services they provide without increase the cost to the end user. The added revenue from this promotion will only increase their ability to serve you better in the future.
- liedra 16y agoI just signed up the other day! :( Oh well. I'm happy now that I have a local datacentre (UK). Also that my new server hasn't been added to SORBS' DUHL (the 3 weeks it's been taking Slicehost and SORBS to work things out there has been killing me, and finally gave me the momentum to move to the lower cost provider for the same specs).
- tomjen3 16y agoAgreed, this is kind of an annoyance with many companies, who don't think about those who have shown willingness to pay them in the past. On the other hand, I don't really loose anything by it, so why worry about it?
- taylorbuley 16y agoI'm feeling the exact same way with Amazon's AWS's pending free tier. I'm an upstanding guy but it kind of makes you want to re-register under your wife's name, doesn't it?
- jolan 16y agoI contacted them and politely asked them to put me in the free tier so I could beta test the FreeBSD AMI without being charged and they complied.