standard 75 to come back and then subscribe @24 for 12bux.
i passed on the first offer (came about 4 weeks after i quite)...it expired...rec'd a 2nd come back about a week after the first expired...still at 75.
i have 10 more days to re-up...on the 2nd offer.
however, if you have contacts at the other place, you can negotiate your monthly return figure.
When I first pushed the button they gave me a 25 free "don't go" thing which I used up in an hour and then quit.
Then I got the 75 offer; 75 free if I pay for one month at 24 for $11.99. That came about 5 weeks after quitting, and they didn't send me an email or anything - I just logged in out of curiosity and there was the offer.
I'm still sitting on that offer. I know it's a good deal, but... I don't know. I just haven't felt like it yet.
Aphexbr cancelled today. I think there was another one, too, but I can't get into eMusic tonight. Have tried off and on for the last hour or so. I can bring up all kinds of web sites. But no eMu.
I had 3 memberships up until last month. I quit one (offered a "special deal" of only $5.99 for the 12 track a month lite option, but passed on it), downsized frogkopf to 12 tracks a month, and have a 30 track $11.99 a month grandfathered account that I haven't changed (was 50 before the rollover). I currently have 4 best buy 100 cards to burn through.
I'll keep the froggie account open for a few months to make sure I have everything downloaded (almost 6000 artists, but close to half come up 0 downloads), after that I don't know.
As you probably know, I've been quite active on Amie Street, that will be the main place to buy indie for me for the next year or so, since I'll have about $500 in credit once I use up/cash in my recs. I've been paying less than $3 an album in Amie money (probably $1.25 in real money), so it's not worth my while spend almost $5 an album at eMu. I will continue to pick up Jazz, Classical, and International there from time to time when the price is right.
I think they've retired the 25 don't quit offer - probably too many people taking it and then quit a day or two later.
My situation matched that of Brittle and Am's; 75 dls & 24 for $12. It came about a month after I quit. Curiously, I also had a difficult time jumping on the offer, even though I had been hoping to get it. I think I rejoined about two days before the offer expired (I think it was good for three/four weeks). The excitement of emusic just wasn't the same for me. I rejoined just in time to take advantage of the free 10 dls for rec'ing 10 albums.
I'm wrapping up the first month of being back. I'll probably upgrade to the next level up (36 for $16, I think). I'll give it a couple months, see how it goes. I've already downloaded a few albums that I'm thrilled to have. I don't spend as much time wandering the halls as I used to.
It was 10 freebies. I deleted the email -- wouldn't advise friends to join at the moment. Then again, that's supposing I have 5 friends. Right?
Edit: Still in my email trash can. "Get 10 free songs when you share the eMusic love" Each of 5 friends who join gets 50 free downloads, while I get 10, but only if all 5 join, I presume. I didn't bother to read the fine print.
My subscription finished on the 22nd of this month, when I hit the cancel buttons the week before that I got a 'special' deal offered to me of 12 downloads / 30 days for £4.99 (US$7.99), even when we leave we still get charged far more over here than the US, and in a lot of other countries too, where it seems the same 12 downloads per 30 day deal is $5.99! As aphexbr pointed out in his leaving post over there, that's not enough to download many whole albums, what's the point when you can get many CD's* for less than that anyway, at far better bitrate than what emu offers, a rate that seems to be getting lower as time passes too?
Having had a 90 downloads per month grandfathered account for approx £145 per annum(approx $US252) to get that 'special' offer sums up to me what emusic's all about these days, a combination of fingers stuck up at the customer.
Going on some of the above responses, I guess I've got a few weeks to see if I get offered anything else.
@ Katrina - sorry to hear you got no offers from them, I seem to recall you saying about all of the discount cards that you'd got from various stores in the US(something else we never got in the UK from emusic), maybe they thought you'd got enough of a good deal out of emusic?!
* Who says that CD's are dead in the other thead here? Emusic may be doing their best to prove that theory wrong?!!
My cancellation just became effective last week. I was offered a free month when I gave my notice, which I declined. I haven't gotten any other offers yet, except the "refer-a-friend" thing, which came through on my cancellation day. That was kind of funny.
maybe they thought you'd got enough of a good deal out of emusic?!
Maybe so, dubdance, but other folks got even more of those cards than I, and still got offers. Maybe I'm on their shitlist because I am still downloading the free stuff.
However, today an offer showed up in my hotmail account, so they are just trolling through their database of email contacts. This hotmail account, I used it a few times to report a problem. It wasn't attached to an eMu account. As a result, it's an offer for 45 free tracks to a new person signing up.
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@ Katrina - that may well be another reason why I've had no worthwhile offer too, I've been checking out the freebies as well.
@ frogkopf - I've signed in since the subscription expired, it's made no difference so far. I have to sign in if I want to download any of the freebies, just as you would to add a message to a thread.
I signed into emu today and tried to respond to a thread, I'd read that other ex-users had managed to do so, but I kept getting returned to the message board index page. Is this usual behaviour for recently canceled members, or was it emu just having another bad day at the server?
@dubdance - Recent reports have been that eMu has done away with the ability to post once your account is cancelled. Can't even edit old posts. Katrina could do that for a bit, but then she was shut out.
Is this usual behaviour
Typical emu, it depends on which OS!
On this Mac, I get the emu temporarily unavailable if I try to reply to a thread I never posted in. I just edited a previous post of mine, haha.
On Windows, I believe it took me to my account page or gave a little red error message that i had to be a current subscriber.
Why hello, mommio!
I wonder if they will fix that little Mac/Safari bug. I might go check on a PC later, but they clearly do their Windows/IE stuff before Mac/Safari (if the downloader issues are any indication).
I got an offer of a free month's downloads, which in my case is 40 (this is Emu UK). I accepted, because I regard it as a reward for my "loyalty" (hollow laugh) over the last four years. (OK Katrina, I know I'm whoring.) But I must say I still think I'm going to leave when these are used up. Like several other people, I feel I've got too much downloaded stuff I've never even listened to. It's become an obsession just to stockpile, a bit OCD. It's time to do more actual listening. As far as I'm concerned I'll be happy with Spotify and Amazon, and grandfathered accounts here will presumably soon go the way of the US ones when Sony comes.
EDIT. The offer was instantaneous as soon as I presssed the Confirm key.
Another edit. Dubdance mentions that discount cards have never been available in the UK. I thought that too, but I've just seen on the Emu boards that they've in fact been available at Sainsbury's for some time, but now seem to have been withdrawn. Doh.
Yet another edit. Sorry, just seen the discount card thing's been discussed. Just catching up on this site after a "rest" with narrowband. Should have started from the bottom. Not much of a deal, though, at £29.99 for 100.
I tried to download the Tompkins freebies and got taken to the reactivate account page with that rip-off offer of 24 downloads per month for £9.99 so I didn't manage to get them. It was on a Windows machine though, reading Katrina's posts I'll check later on with a Linux OS to see if there's a way to bypass the Windows sentries that emu appear to have, by design or accident.
Edit - I found a workaround on Windows just by clicking on the individual track download buttons rather than the download album button. In case it's different with other DLM's/ browsers etc this was done using Firefox/eythian's emusic/J on XP Pro
@ JFLL - no worries about double thread references on my part. Maybe that's why the OP mentions the cards now, they wanted help in getting more of what they'd previously kept secret from others.
In case it's different with other DLM's/ browsers etc this was done using Firefox/eythian's emusic/J on XP Pro
It's the same on my Mac & the eMu downloader. You can DL single free tracks, but not an entire free album.
Yes, you have to click on each track one at a time. I can start another before the first one is complete.
Although you're on dial-up, and I wouldn't recommend getting more than one track at a time, in that case.
Off topic of the original point, but in the end I decided not to quit entirely because I knew I could not come back, as they blocked access from Australia entirely for new subscribers. The finality of that really focusses the mind.
I had four (! I know ..) accounts and quit 3 of them -- if I try to sign back in with those I'm not allowed, so no incentives to come back for me.
I just got an email offering me 75 free credits if I re-up at 35 credits for $15.69, or something like that. The offer is good until the end of November. I'll probably pass, but I'll keep the email just in case.
If I ever get a decent job again, I might rejoin for a few months....I'd want some kind of free tracks offer though, whore that I am.
Nanker, I completely understand. I held onto my grandfathered subscription for longer than I should have, because I couldn't go back to that deal if I quit. Even worse if I couldn't come back at all!
I just got an email offering me 75 free credits if I re-up at 35 credits for $15.69, or something like that. The offer is good until the end of November. I'll probably pass, but I'll keep the email just in case.
I bet they give you more than one shot. I'll be interested to see what other offers they send.
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i passed on the first offer (came about 4 weeks after i quite)...it expired...rec'd a 2nd come back about a week after the first expired...still at 75.
i have 10 more days to re-up...on the 2nd offer.
however, if you have contacts at the other place, you can negotiate your monthly return figure.
good luck.
Then I got the 75 offer; 75 free if I pay for one month at 24 for $11.99. That came about 5 weeks after quitting, and they didn't send me an email or anything - I just logged in out of curiosity and there was the offer.
I'm still sitting on that offer. I know it's a good deal, but... I don't know. I just haven't felt like it yet.
I'll keep the froggie account open for a few months to make sure I have everything downloaded (almost 6000 artists, but close to half come up 0 downloads), after that I don't know.
As you probably know, I've been quite active on Amie Street, that will be the main place to buy indie for me for the next year or so, since I'll have about $500 in credit once I use up/cash in my recs. I've been paying less than $3 an album in Amie money (probably $1.25 in real money), so it's not worth my while spend almost $5 an album at eMu. I will continue to pick up Jazz, Classical, and International there from time to time when the price is right.
I think they've retired the 25 don't quit offer - probably too many people taking it and then quit a day or two later.
I'm wrapping up the first month of being back. I'll probably upgrade to the next level up (36 for $16, I think). I'll give it a couple months, see how it goes. I've already downloaded a few albums that I'm thrilled to have. I don't spend as much time wandering the halls as I used to.
haughty sniff
Although I did get an email offering 5 freebie downloads for recommending 5 friends or something
Edit: Still in my email trash can. "Get 10 free songs when you share the eMusic love" Each of 5 friends who join gets 50 free downloads, while I get 10, but only if all 5 join, I presume. I didn't bother to read the fine print.
Well, you could always recommend me :-)
(I'm off to the pool to get my Sunday evening exercise. In addition to the yard work I did today.)
Having had a 90 downloads per month grandfathered account for approx £145 per annum(approx $US252) to get that 'special' offer sums up to me what emusic's all about these days, a combination of fingers stuck up at the customer.
Going on some of the above responses, I guess I've got a few weeks to see if I get offered anything else.
@ Katrina - sorry to hear you got no offers from them, I seem to recall you saying about all of the discount cards that you'd got from various stores in the US(something else we never got in the UK from emusic), maybe they thought you'd got enough of a good deal out of emusic?!
* Who says that CD's are dead in the other thead here? Emusic may be doing their best to prove that theory wrong?!!
However, today an offer showed up in my hotmail account, so they are just trolling through their database of email contacts. This hotmail account, I used it a few times to report a problem. It wasn't attached to an eMu account. As a result, it's an offer for 45 free tracks to a new person signing up.
We have recently added more than a million new songs to eMusic. Choose from thousands of rock, classical, country and jazz masters with artists ranging from My Morning Jacket to Yo Yo Ma, Bruce Springsteen to Beyonc
amclark2 say they didn't send him anything, but it was activated when he relogged in a month or so after quitting.
@ frogkopf - I've signed in since the subscription expired, it's made no difference so far. I have to sign in if I want to download any of the freebies, just as you would to add a message to a thread.
Typical emu, it depends on which OS!
On this Mac, I get the emu temporarily unavailable if I try to reply to a thread I never posted in. I just edited a previous post of mine, haha.
On Windows, I believe it took me to my account page or gave a little red error message that i had to be a current subscriber.
I wonder if they will fix that little Mac/Safari bug. I might go check on a PC later, but they clearly do their Windows/IE stuff before Mac/Safari (if the downloader issues are any indication).
EDIT. The offer was instantaneous as soon as I presssed the Confirm key.
Another edit. Dubdance mentions that discount cards have never been available in the UK. I thought that too, but I've just seen on the Emu boards that they've in fact been available at Sainsbury's for some time, but now seem to have been withdrawn. Doh.
Yet another edit. Sorry, just seen the discount card thing's been discussed. Just catching up on this site after a "rest" with narrowband. Should have started from the bottom. Not much of a deal, though, at £29.99 for 100.
As you may already know, free track whoring is a favorite past time of mine. No judgements here!
Out of curiosity, I was able edit a previous post on eMu on a Windows machine, too. Whatever they had stopping it, is gone, at least for a while.
Edit - I found a workaround on Windows just by clicking on the individual track download buttons rather than the download album button. In case it's different with other DLM's/ browsers etc this was done using Firefox/eythian's emusic/J on XP Pro
@ JFLL - no worries about double thread references on my part. Maybe that's why the OP mentions the cards now, they wanted help in getting more of what they'd previously kept secret from others.
It's the same on my Mac & the eMu downloader. You can DL single free tracks, but not an entire free album.
Although you're on dial-up, and I wouldn't recommend getting more than one track at a time, in that case.
I had four (! I know ..) accounts and quit 3 of them -- if I try to sign back in with those I'm not allowed, so no incentives to come back for me.
Nanker, I completely understand. I held onto my grandfathered subscription for longer than I should have, because I couldn't go back to that deal if I quit. Even worse if I couldn't come back at all!
I bet they give you more than one shot. I'll be interested to see what other offers they send.