Does anyone else thing Gmail "invitation only" is a scam ...
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
FlyingTinman wrote: Does anyone else thing Gmail "invitation only" is a scam Absolutely. Actually, I'd call it a virus, propagated through message boards. It's filled message boards all over the internet with totally useless posts. What a great way to clog up bandwidth and slow down server response times...
Ryan
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
You're right. When it gets to a certain stage like now, where the web appears bloated with invites, they will then stop releasing the invites up for offer. And the demand will again increase, then they will release another wave of invites. So basically they are manipulating the demand of Gmail accounts on the 'market'. Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
Definitly hit the nail on the head there. But google has always been good at this sort of thing. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
I don't care 'cos I've got mine now :) (thanks to Colin Davies) It's perfect for me as I'm sick of having to rely on NTL's flaky web-mail service... "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
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... a clever marketing ploy by Google. I posted one request to Gmailswap.com for an invite offering a "payment" and got five invites only one of which asked for (but didn't require) the "payment" Obviously anyone who wants one can get a Gmail account. It does appear to be is a pretty good Web-based email but what a clever way to make us all clamour for an account as though we'd be missing out if we coudn't finnagle one before the 'general release'! Can you imagine how much less interest there would have been if Google had just turned round and said "Sign up for Gmail today." Steve T
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You're right. When it gets to a certain stage like now, where the web appears bloated with invites, they will then stop releasing the invites up for offer. And the demand will again increase, then they will release another wave of invites. So basically they are manipulating the demand of Gmail accounts on the 'market'. Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
Yeah, I've had the feeling that it was pretty silly all along. If you want a certain number of beta users, what's the point of all this "invite" silliness? Just make that number of accounts available and announce it. So, it is clearly a gimmic. Not quite as evil as "freeipods" and the like, but pretty close. I'm not sure what is so great about Gmail. The thing I like about it is that it has caused both Yahoo and HotMail to "keep up with the Joneses" so that both increased my account storage size by a few orders of magnitude! Probably the net is already so clogged with "GMail invite" requests that Google has had to tweak their search engine specially for that query. Matt Gerrans