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Thank You For Being Amazing Beta Users: A Letter From CEO Chris Kantrowitz

By On November 10, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Blog

Hi Everyone,

We wanted to thank you all for being such amazing beta testers. Your insights and ideas have really helped to make Gobbler a stand out product and we can’t thank you enough.

Many have asked what is going to happen to their storage once we start charging.  Here’s our plan: Gobbler is going to officially launch our paid service on Feb 1, 2012.

For everyone who signed up for Gobbler prior to Dec 7th 2011 (and has logged into Gobbler at least once using our client software), you will keep your Gobbler accounts for free until Feb 1, 2013 (a full year of free service). Whatever amount of storage you have accumulated by getting your friends to sign up will be included in that amount. So if you currently have 75GB or 150GB of storage it’s yours for free for a whole year. You will continue to be able to accumulate storage during that year. On Feb 1 2013 when the free year is up your will be grandfathered in at our lowest price of $7.95 per month for life no matter how many gigs of storage your have earned between now and Feb 1 2013.

This is our way of saying thank you for being amazing.

We appreciate all the love, feedback, and ideas we’ve gotten from all of you throughout the beta we are so excited about where things are headed…Stay tuned and keep the feedback coming!

Sincerely,

Chris Kantrowitz

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  • http://www.facebook.com/LouAshbyRecords Pete Marriott

    As a PC user, I think this news bites.

    For months I inquired about the PC Version and was told several variations of how you’ll be releasing the PC version of the beta soon and now you guys are going to go into subscription mode leaving us PC Users out in the cold once again as the Mac Users who were given an opportunity to beta test the benefit of a free subscription for a year?

    Wow! Talk about fairness. I doubt very highly you’re gonna run a beta program just for us PC Users based on our being alienated while waiting to participate in the beta. Hopefully we’ll get a special reduced rate by the the time PC version is ready, but I seriously doubt Gobbler cares about us PC users. This is so disappointing. :(

    • http://www.gobbler.com Chris

      Hi Pete,

      We do care about the PC users. It’s coming we swear…. WRT the special deal. PC users will be grandfathered in as well. If you signed up for the PC waiting list before Dec 7th. You will get the same treatment as the Mac folks. We are one with the PC folks :-) we just had a hard time finding a programmer we could vibe with. We now have that person.. he kicks ass… PC coming soon.. we swear

  • Mike

    Hi Pete,

    We do care about our PC users, we just didn’t know there were going to be so many. Once it became clear that there enough demand for it, we made it a priority and have been hard at work on it ever since.

    To clarify though, the free year though is for EVERYONE. Anyone who signs up for the PC list before December 7th is going to get the year free too. We know who’s been on the list and we’re not going to leave you in the cold.

  • http://www.facebook.com/LouAshbyRecords Pete Marriott

    Well this is a cause for celebration then. Now I have a good excuse to open up a bottle of Pino Grisio, I’ll lift my glass up to you guys for quelling my fears of losing out on joining the party after all. Thanks fellas and cheers. :D

  • http://www.gobbler.com Chris

    I’ll join you! We love to parrrrrty!

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