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...following on from my last entry

As I expected, I got an email today from my hosting company saying I'd made the top 10 and I have qualified for their platinum service blah blah blah. The benefit of this is that I 'get' to pay £97 a year for their platinum service instead of £300 odd. Errrrm, thanks but no thanks.

Would still like to think the whole top 10 website thing is genuine though... although I highly doubt it!
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  1. Unknown on 26 February 2009 at 19:19

    Hey, after I received the same e-mail I went on a search to find people who might be questioning the validity of it. Sure enough there's a woman who received Platinum offer with only an index page and 1 link leading to her blog.

    Didn't mean to burst that bubble but it seems like you wanted to be out of this self high that they tried to sucker us into. Thank you for posting up your story too so I can disregard that email as I feared to even click on the given link but did not want to lose the "opportunity."

     
  2. Ste on 26 February 2009 at 21:30

    Aha, thanks for that! Never mind eh...

    I realise company's need to employ certain marketing techniques to be effective, but I just don't approve of a down right lie. Especially to go as far as to add that 'personal' touch to the email they send... to everyone.

    I won't be renewing with them and I'll let them know why!

     


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