Disloyalty Bonus
Yee-hah. I received a disloyalty bonus today, or rather my wife did. Total of 99 tracks for $12, with rollover rights. Meanwhile, my long standing account does not get roll-over rights. (Although I am usually out of credits on the second day after rollover, so it is no matter.)
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I want bonus.
Plus I got the original 50 for signing up, and fifty for recommending me to me on my "real" account.
You cad. You bounder. That's slick.
Interestingly, I haven't received an offer yet for the frogkopf account, which I quit earlier than the one I've been offered a rejoin special. I wonder if it has something to do with my downgrading it to the 12 track lite membership for several months before quitting.
I'm still waiting for a disloyalty offer for my original account. I finally stopped logging back into that one regularly to get the daily downloads and am hoping that helps. It's possible that I'll do another annual subscription because it's a good deal again. We'll see.
Craig
In 1995, I decided to put up a BMG sign-up web page: I grabbed the last 6-8 months of BMG catalogs, made a quick database for inputting the artist-album- cat numbers, and offered to cut a few friends/coworkers in on the deal if they inputted the numbers for me. A few weeks later, we launched the site. At the time BMG didn't have its own site up yet, so there was no competition. Our selling point was that we 4-5x as many items listed as the monthly BMG catalog and about 40-50x the items listed on their ubiquitous one page magazine ads.
Within a week we started getting 1-2 sign-ups a day. At our peak, we were getting 30-40 a week. The other guys couldn't find albums they wanted fast enough to fill out the cards, so I took about half of them. Eventually, I started ordering multiple copies and selling the extras at enough of a profit that I was able to get my CDs for free - that was a sweet deal, pay $8 for the shipping on the Led Zep box set, sell it for $40 and use the difference to pay the shipping for 12-15 CDs I kept for myself. They would always send another sign up form with your feebie -shipment, so I would never run out.
About 5 years and several thousand sign ups later, BMG's lawyers sent me a letter asking me to shut my site down. I don't know if it was because they didn't like the competition, or because after catching another guy leeching off my site, I redirected his leech links to a porn site(he copied the code to my sign-up sheet, changed the mailto: field and posted it to another site so he would get the signees. He didnt even bother to copy the catalog lists, he just linked to mine). I closed my site for a month, and reopened it. About a year later, BMG dropped my membership (apparently with millions of others who werent actively buying full priced items). I could have re-launched the site when I rejoined a year later, but had other priorities.
I am in awe.
Me too. I lost count a few years back. However, if I listen to about 100 albums a day, I think I can get through my collection in about 8-9 months.
I do plan on slowing down my acquisitioning in the near future.....