Welcome back to our Post-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday “Action Required” Series, where we ask you, our loyal readers, for your input. We’ll be doing a series of polls for the next week or so and then we’ll publish a summary of responses. Please watch for the ACTION REQUIRED title in our posts and vote!
And now, our seventh and final question…
Do you have any buyer’s remorse from Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
C’mon. Be honest.
Did you overspend because the deals were just so fantastic or did you restrain yourself? Did you lose all track of time, space, and future earnings? Would you do it all again, twice and with more gusto? Or do you wish you could roll back the clock and get a lock on your PayPal account?
Let us know by voting in the poll and commenting below!
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I bought something that sounded good…and it wasn’t: (sorta)
Did the Servius 1 Euro lifetime 1TB object storage deal. Got charged VAT even though I’m in the USA (oh well). Then it all blew up on LET, resulting in Servius altering the deal. Maybe it’s a year, maybe it’s only 50 GB, maybe it auto-renews for $$$, maybe there are monthly transfer and API limits, who knows. I may not have received a good deal on storage, but I certainly got more than 1 Euro + VAT + fees worth of drama from the LET thread!
Don’t have any buyer’s remorse from this year—I actually got everything I needed last year. I wish that I had bought 2 dedis from Knownhost last year instead of just one. I would have bought another dedi if there had been a similar offer this year. There were some good dedi offers this year, but they either only had a single IP address, which doesn’t meet my needs, or were from questionable companies (I checked the reviews multiple places).
Glad you don’t regret any of your purchases :)
I thought Seedbox was a marketing term for a tier or some such. The provider was quite nice and prompt with a refund.