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SpyMac - bear with me here...
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I don't see why everyone here seems to bash SpyMac when you get:
A combined 375 MB of space, divided into 100 MB for your web site, 250 MB for your image gallery, and 25 MB for emails. Easy creation of your own blog and/or forums included. And, of course, a predominantly friendly community of 35,000+. And it�s all for FREE!
This puts Apple's .Mac to shame! And it's free! How do they finance this? Surely not through advertising alone? What's so bad about it that everyone here bashes it for?
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[Along with this website] I go to SpyMac.com every day and it's a joy. Yes A LOT of people can be ignorant and downright silly, but so can I so I guess it works out.
Also those features are new with the release of SpyMac 3 last week, so many lashings might have to do with the previous version of the website.
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Originally posted by CollinG3G4:
It's free for now.
So they're going to charge when it gets past beta?
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Well SpyMac came about because of a bate and switch move, I wouldn't put it pass them again.
How can you give out that much space and not be losing money? Do they plan on no one using their space?
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Sorry that should be "bait" not "bate", and I meant they might start charging for it in the future.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by Truepop:
Sorry that should be "bait" not "bate", and I meant they might start charging for it in the future.
If you click the little "Edit" button right above your post, you can correct mistakes after posting.
-s*
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
If you click the little "Edit" button right above your post, you can correct mistakes after posting.
-s*
I am aware of that, It is just I hit the back button twice and got a double post. I thought I could save grace this way by editing the DP.
But I guessed wrong.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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You sure did, buddy.
Just kidding.
Seriously. 
Meh. Now I made a fool out of myself.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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so where do I sign up for the free 350 megs ? I didn't find a link on the site. Is it under construction still ?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rochester, NY
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I have an account there for the space and image hosting. E-mail is very nice as well. I enjoy viewing the member gallery as well. But the forums is ridiculous -- I don't think I've met a straight guy there thats over the age of 14.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by CheesePuff:
I have an account there for the space and image hosting. E-mail is very nice as well. I enjoy viewing the member gallery as well. But the forums is ridiculous -- I don't think I've met a straight guy there thats over the age of 14.
Their forum software (homemade?) is down right horrid as well...
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Very very cool offer.. I wonder where the capital comes from...
I would not be surprised if made it a pay service in a year
after all, that's what Apple did.
this can't really be free
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yep a lot of spymac haters here no doubt
love thy brother
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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i love spymac because it has attracted the immature kiddies away from here
cough cough joeg4 cough cough
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally posted by willed:
I don't see why everyone here seems to bash SpyMac
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by Immortal K-Mart Employee:
I personally thought the work on that was flat-out brillant...I just wish they didn't use it to gain "30,000+" members...
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
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From the thread on spymac:
haha.
There are no secrets. We plan to make money from the auctions, paid hosting, shop and advertising.
The plan is that those services will at least make the site break even.
Sure that worked wonders for the ISP I worked for. And we had PAID dialup-clients as well. 
I will now restate what I already said in the other thread: The owners are too young to remember the dotcom-bust.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by Truepop:
Sorry that should be "bait" not "bate", and I meant they might start charging for it in the future.
I heard those guys are master baiters. 
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Originally posted by Immortal K-Mart Employee:
i'm intrigued...
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
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once a .Mac member... always be.
I am also a SpyMac member.. but that so-called Beta 3 UI turns me off.
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Originally posted by CheesePuff:
I have an account there for the space and image hosting. E-mail is very nice as well. I enjoy viewing the member gallery as well. But the forums is ridiculous -- I don't think I've met a straight guy there thats over the age of 14.
It's your lucky day! I am both straight and well over 14. Heh, and yeah a LOT of people there are gay...it's alittle overwhelming and sometimes annoying if they start posting pictures of half-naked men.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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From their forums:
"There are no secrets. We plan to make money from the auctions, paid hosting, shop and advertising.
The plan is that those services will at least make the site break even."
Having run a similar service before, I had a laugh riot with this one. Expect Spymac to kill the free service within months.
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Originally posted by Truepop:
Sorry that should be "bait" not "bate", and I meant they might start charging for it in the future.
That's still not bait and switch, and neither was the iTools->.Mac transition.
Bait and Switch is when you advertise a product you don't even have. When the customers come in you coerce them to buy a more expensive, different product.
If you went to SpyMac and signed up, and they said "Well, we don't really have a free account, but for $10/month we have one with 500MB of space", then that would be bait and switch.
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