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> ...because they're so fucking spammy that the SNR is like 1:99. This 1000x. I signed up for an SMS gateway service last year. Just for my own hobby use, noth
by function_seven 4y ago
> ...because they're so fucking spammy that the SNR is like 1:99.
This 1000x. I signed up for an SMS gateway service last year. Just for my own hobby use, nothing major. I gave them $10 to start service, and they charge like 2¢ or something per outgoing message.
They have like 180 different prices for 180 countries, territories, provinces, parishes, cantons, prefectures, etc. Every week one of those prices changes, and I get an email notifying me of that. I tried to turn those off in my preferences, but they refused. I can opt out of marketing, weekly digests, and "tips and tricks"; but I can't opt out of pricing notices.
So I added a rule on my end to hide those. I totally understand where they're coming from. They can't NOT give pricing change warnings. But at the same time, in the flood of constant notices, there may be something major I will miss.
It would be nice if they instead gave me the option to never spend more than $0.XX per message, and return an API error if an attempted send fails for price threshold violation. Then the spam wouldn't be needed.
- yamtaddle 4y agoShit, that'd even let them optimize their pricing. "If we double this rate, 25% of our customers will start erroring, but factoring in message volume of those customers and assuming they all leave us, it'll still be a 60% increase in revenue from this product."