[asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

Its an onld thing from the 80s, crazy eddie did electronics and he used to brag in his tv commercials that his prices were below cost but he makes it up in volume.  

This is the samy type of gimmick finerea does, 'free' calls to all over, now that they have more customers they are setting more rules, first expiring monies not used, then so many hours a month (20 iirc) then so many over the last 7 days.  

It works for a while to get a customer base, instead of tv commercials you get word of mouth.  Vonage spent what $300M on advertising alone last year, bet ebay spends less with this program and gets a ton of customers ...


-----Original Message-----
   >From: "John Scully"<jscully at isipi.com>
   >Sent: 5/16/06 6:32:43 PM
   >To: "g7ltt at g7ltt.com"<g7ltt at g7ltt.com>, "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
   >Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls
     >I was once in a sales meeting where a guy doing a presentation countered an 
   >argument that we
   >would be giving the product away for free by saying
   >"Yes, but we will make it up on volume!"
   >Perhaps he works for Skype now.
   >
   >
   >----- Original Message ----- 
   >From: "Mark Phillips" <g7ltt at g7ltt.com>
   >To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
   ><asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
   >Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:02 PM
   >Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls
   >
   >
   >>
   >> All this just to win over customers.
   >>
   >> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:41 +0200, Wilson Pickett wrote:
   >>> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14586267.htm
   >>>
   >>> "SAN JOSE, Calif. - Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary,
   >>> has stopped charging users for dialing up people on traditional
   >>> landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada.
   >>>
   >   >

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