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Is Pownce Pro really worth $20/year?
Anybody here signed up for it yet, and if so, why?
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It took me about 8 months of using flickr before I decided to pay to go pro. With flickr the need for a pro account came only after reaching my 200 picture limit. I assume if you are using Pownce for all your messaging and file sharing the same realization will come when you reach the limits of your free account.
I’m happy
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Hey there! Pownce is different and special in a whole bunch of ways. First, it's not a massive social network that's ever meant to be everything to everyone. It helps you send stuff to your friends and it does that really well.
The key thing is that you can send stuff to a group of people, or to the public, or to an individual friend. So, say you had a great photo or a song that you wanted to send to a few of your friends... you'd just Pownce it them and they'd be able to grab it and have a quick and easy discussion with you about it.
It's pretty easy to try out, so give it a shot and see if Pownce is right for you. I hope it is.
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?It took me about 8 months of using flickr before I decided to pay to go pro. With flickr the need for a pro account came only after reaching my 200 picture limit. I assume if you are using Pownce for all your messaging and file sharing the same realization will come when you reach the limits of your free account.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?i bought a pro account and I still cannot send files larger than 10mb. still see ads and my totally awesome badge ;p is still not there. something seriously wrong here.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Personally, I'd miss the ads... the only site where I actually like them
I’m desiring a pro account with ads
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Inappropriate?I think I actually turned Pro because I wanted to dedicate myself to the service and prevent jumping off in a couple of weeks. I guess this requires some faith in the abilities of the creative team, but I am confident that Pownce will become a big hit and even far more useful than it is now.
And if it turns into one miserable failure, well, then it's just been 20 bucks, and at least in my book that's not really a lot, I mean even having one decent meal is usually more expensive, right?
I’m confident and excited
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Inappropriate?I signed up... took a good three days for my account to show up, so have faith. I don't send files, so the 100 MB limit doesn't really matter to me, but I thought this was something worth supporting.
I've found, however, that having fewer friends makes the tool more usable. If I truly want this as a way to send files to my co-workers and stuff, it gets unmanageable if I have over 50 friends.... just too much junk coming my way to see the important stuff.
On that note, it would be nice if one could filter messages from people in certain groups (or mark them on receipt).
I’m glad I paid the 20 bucks.
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Inappropriate?Ergh, that's a bug Jay. We had a few instances of people who didn't have pro payments come through successfully. Can you please email us about it or post your Pownce username here and we'll manually fix it for you. My apologies... that's frustrating.
I’m understanding your frustration
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Inappropriate?I'm still having trouble figuring out what this service has that several others don't. At the most basic level, you could post a pic to webshots/flickr or a vid to youtube and email the link, or email an event to a group. Of course, that doesn't have a whole lot of manageability, but facebook's event app seems to do everything the same way. Could someone explain to me the benefits of this? kindaubiquitous@gmail.com
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?I chose to go Pro for a few reasons - music & large file sharing primarily, but also to support Pownce, a service that I use and like (and a company I believe in.) While it wasn't a huge necessity at the time - I wasn't finding myself prohibited from doing anything - I found that after upgrading I *DO* use it a lot more for file sharing. That said, I'm still waiting for mobile updates/alerts before I use it as often as I do for Twitter...hopefully those are coming soon.
I’m content
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Inappropriate?Hey there! Pownce is different and special in a whole bunch of ways. First, it's not a massive social network that's ever meant to be everything to everyone. It helps you send stuff to your friends and it does that really well.
The key thing is that you can send stuff to a group of people, or to the public, or to an individual friend. So, say you had a great photo or a song that you wanted to send to a few of your friends... you'd just Pownce it them and they'd be able to grab it and have a quick and easy discussion with you about it.
It's pretty easy to try out, so give it a shot and see if Pownce is right for you. I hope it is.
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the quick response. I'm always excited to see new apps and it looks like you guys are on a good track
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Inappropriate?I paid for a pro account several days ago, sent my receipt in with an email and still no pro, or a reply for that matter. You would think if a company wanted people's money and for their site to grow and get good reviews they would stay on top of money coming their way. I like the site but if they are gonna be unreliable and slow to respond, or not responding at all to paying customers I'll go elsewhere.
I’m disappointed
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Inappropriate?I signed up after an hour or so. I like the ability to send larger files and I'm not a big fan of advertisement, not that the adds in Pownce are very distractive, so the 20 dollars a year seemed very reasonable to me.
I have tried many of the existing social websites and they always felt bloated or their site design was hideous. Pownce is so refreshingly simple and, one might say, elegant. It's social website for grownups.
I gladly paid the upgrade and will most likely keep paying.
I’m satisfied
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Inappropriate?I dig Pownce so far , but I'd really dig the mobile updates/alerts also. Looking forward to that being added in the future (hopefully).
I’m dandy.
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Inappropriate?I think Pownce has a long way to go. Between a sturdy app you can use to update and maybe a badge. $20 a year is cheap, but worth it? Not in my eyes.
I’m unconcerned
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Inappropriate?I have paid $20 for the Apps I love! I disagree with dburka on pownce not being used a social networking tool. It is working amazingly well for me. Comparing to using facebook which is more for sending files to friends in conjunction with facebook apps, I am just happy to send random messages to random friends i have on pownce. Why not?
I’m happy to be a pro user
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Inappropriate?Hi Drew,
Apologies for the wait. We *just* made some changes to the system to make sure these errors don't occur. I was just about to activate Pro on your account but I noticed you had deleted your profile. I'm going to send you an email in addition to replying here, but essentially, let me know if you'd like a refund or would like me to reactivate your account with Pro.
Again, very sorry about this!
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?its called beta for a reason bro, chill out wait for the kids to bring the thunder...
I’m drunk, as usual
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Inappropriate?I'm very happy with my Pro Account so far, as soon as I joined I went Pro to basically support the Pownce Team and I will go Pro again next year if things improve, they're already starting to.
The new custom Themes option is a nice bonus for Pro users right now, Its going to be interesting to see what other features they come up with. If you paid for Pro, but your account does not change status, contact the people behind the service, they aren't out to rip you off and will sort your problem out.
Good Job so far Pownce. :D
I’m pleased
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Inappropriate?If someone can answer my question regarding file space, I'll join Pro for sure (and possibly convince hundreds to follow suit as well through my podcast). -
Inappropriate?yes. totally worth it for us as a music entity and here is why:
- customizing our page to match our branding is easy and valuable to our synchronized integrated marketing efforts across the web
- we send an mp3 every day to our friends in Pownce as a group. sometimes we will send large mp3 files to all friends.... and sometimes one special friend will get a string of mp3s like a mixtape from reapandsow music. these are drm free and beneficial to the artists we represent as we optimize the discoverability of their product (music). having the ability to send large files (video, too) helps us execute quickly AND guarantee creative methods (yes, we have the rights to promote these mp3s for all you legal eagles out there) ;)
in the interest of full disclosure, crazywanda does not have a pro account, but reapandsow does. reapandsow finds it quite useful and worth the cost at this juncture. if the price were to rise, it would be questionable. but $20 for freedom to exercise creative communication with our friends is well worth it to the reapandsow team, and to all the artists we represent in the digital space.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?yes definitly, I've always had problems sending large files to people, especially non technical people. It's more convenient then other files sharing services; which are for public sharing then person-to-person.
most people understand WWW and e-mail, they can't comprehend that FTP is for file transfer. And having to manage files on a webserver can be difficult; as far as how long they should remain on a public location.
plus, it's worthwhile supporting Pownce. it's a great idea, it follow the old adage, KISS. -
Inappropriate?Hurrr, I recently paid to upgrade to pro, and nothing has happened really. Everything is the same, despite getting confirmation that the payment went ahead.
Could someone sort out my problems? user: Ashlaws, paypal ash.laws@hotmail.com
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?Ah, it's been fixed now (pretty quickly as well I might add) and I've got my custom theme up and running and everything. I went Pro mainly for the custom themes, but also because I wanted to support a service I absolutely love and use daily.
I’m thankful, happy
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Inappropriate?1-5GB individual file size? That won't be happening...
There is Unlimited Upload, its just the max filesize is 100MB. -
Inappropriate?I definitely agree that the file limit of 100 megs for pro should be upped soon, however for the moment it's ok. Burka has mentioned that there could be a strong possibility of raising the file limits in the future. I'd say 20megs for users, ~250 megs for pro users.
what do you mean by 1-5 gigs? Gigabytes of bandwidth? Or the ability to upload 1-5 gigs? If the latter, the Pownce servers would certainly find it difficult to service hunderds, if not thousands of people uploading and downloading terrabytes of data at once. -
Inappropriate?Something that needs to be thought out though, is why Pownce over Rapidshare,Megaupload, etc.
As well what's the life of a sent file? 1 day/week/month/indefinite? Pownce will have to run out space at some point.
And if someone posts a file publicly which breaks the ToS, is there anyway to notify about it, to have it removed?
I just fear that people may start to use this as a major warez host, and kill Pownce. I'm NOT a whistleblower, but I'd rather keep Pownce alive, then have it taken down by lawsuits from RIAA/MPAA and such.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?I joined up a couple of days ago, my friend wanted me to try it out. Signed up for the Pro account, worked for 5 minutes then gone. I've sent a couple of emails with my Paypal receipt yesterday, still no action. Not even an autoreply, is there anybody at Pownce?
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Ay, there are - just give them some patience. BTW, I'm pretty sure everyone in SanFran has gone to sleep by now. So give it another 48hrs. I was very frustrated just like you - it took about 48hrs for the whole thing to clear for me.
I’m reassuring
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Inappropriate?Hi lldimen,
Did you send an email in to info@megatechtronium.com with your receipt # and username? I checked and am unable to find an email related to your issue in our inbox. Let me know and I can take care of this ASAP. -
Inappropriate?Thanks. I sent the email, but your site says to send it to sales@pownce.com and paypal receipt says sales@mechatech..com. My user name is lldimen.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Both of those email accounts probably dump into the same giant inbox, as they are essentially owned by the same people.
