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I found somebody on twitter posting their email https://x.com/ArnaudLigny/status/1801536871962489145 https://x.com/ArnaudLigny/status/1801536871962489145 "Hey
by mtmail 2y ago
I found somebody on twitter posting their email
https://x.com/ArnaudLigny/status/1801536871962489145 https://x.com/ArnaudLigny/status/1801536871962489145
"Hey there,
Your team cecil is currently enrolled in the Vercel sponsorship program.
Your 100% off discount is expiring on June 14.
To give you time to handle this transition, we will automatically enroll your team into a $300/mo discount for the next 6 months, starting on June 14 and ending on December 14.
Thank you for partnering together with us.
Please reach out to sponsorships@vercel.com if you have any questions."
- kemitchell 2y agoThank you for this context. Giving a bunch of projects $300 a month in credits for six months is still far more than nearly any company does. I wonder if they had projects legitimately consuming more than $300 a month of their services.
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- sabbaticaldev 2y agoSo nice of Vercel. As if their cash cow wasn’t one of those ‘sponsored’ projects. Just wait to see what they will do to svelte
- hehdhdjehehegwv 2y agoAt least their extortion is polite?
- IshKebab 2y agoHow is this extortion? 6 months is plenty of time to sort out an alternative if you need to (assuming an alternative is available).
- arccy 2y agogoing from $0 to $600/month even with discount with 1 day notice feels like extortion...
- hyperhopper 2y agoThey don't have 6 months. They have 1 day. People might not even be checking their inboxes on this Friday, leading to unannounced charges in an unreasonable timeframe or the extortion of paying or having downtime. Disgusting behavior.
- IshKebab 2y agoThat's not correct. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684934
- leerob 2y agoHey there, I work at Vercel. Our sponsorship program has not ended. Some sponsorships have expired like this quoted email, but hopefully 6 months give them time to either re-apply or explore other options. We haven’t been accepting new sponsorships while we update the existing program, but it’s still running and will accept sponsorships again, soon.
- hyperhopper 2y agoYou're not giving them 6 months. You're giving them 1 day, before they may end up even seeing the email and getting charged against their will. Even if they do see the email, 1 day is not enough for a change of service notification that would require a migration. This is disgusting extortioniate behavior that would make me reconsider doing business with Vercel.
- number6 2y agoThey get 300$ per month free credit for 6 months - but the 1 day notice is to short imho
- ai_what 2y agoYeah this is strange. If they are using, lets say $1000 in credits per day, then they will be charged $700 starting tomorrow. Like you said, they might not even see the email yet.
- leerob 2y agoThis isn't the case. If they received this email, it was because they were under the included credits amount. This way, even if they missed the email, they will have six months and we will continue to follow up. If you have a sponsorship, feel free to reach out to me and we can talk about it.
- fabian2k 2y agoI'd agree that going from a free plan to a discounted plan but with unlimited potential for additional charges is an extremely problematic change. I would even suspect that any additional charges would not be enforceable here directly after the switch, but simply putting open source projects into a position where they face this danger if they didn't read their inbox for a day or didn't want to just shut down their infrastructure immediately is a rather hostile move.