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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
These comments are a treasure trove of great feedback for us (I am from IsThisLost team). Thank you so much, everyone. Please write to us at let-me-try-it@isthislost.com, and we'll be happy to send anyone a free basic subscription to IsThi
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Totally agree. We'll look into changing that policy. Is there a potential for abuse here?
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
I am no Microsoft fan, but their tag generation is now free ( http://tag.microsoft.com/what-is-tag/benefits.aspx ). However, the adoption is almost nothing ... almost comparable to the slim adoption of their Azure cloud. And their scanner
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Alex, I am from the IsThisLost team. We hear you. The way we figured the economics is that according to a recent survey (see http://mozy.com/reports/lost-and-found/data-loss-cost/ ), a person is likely to irretrievably lose about $95 wor
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
I tested this with child art on the key tags and the tags were recognized well before the present tags are. I guess the next step is to get people to upload their own art and design their own tag. Like it.
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Our vision is to build a global lost and found database, that is non-commercial. The question is how to get there?
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Yes, I agree that there are many companies out there. The key to success, in our minds, is to do it better than anyone else. To that end, we 1) have better name, 2) anonymizing service, 3) anonymous post back, 4) managed recovery, i.e. a s
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
I am with IsThisLost service. We struggled with this concept and found that charging for recovery is very similar to purchasing auto insurance after the accident has occurred. If our cost per user is $6 and 1 in 50 users lose something, w
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
You can put this on your glasses, books, dvd's (if you have them and lend them out ;-), walking canes (now that's an image), all for a single subs.
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Email addresses can be traced back to you by the evil doers, I imagine.
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
That's IsThisLost.
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Umm, nice. As you can tell, I am from the IsThisLost.com team. The stickers come in blue and green now. We'll introduce other colors and laser engraving service in a couple of months. We talk to many of our customers, and people get it.
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MyKeysAreLost
14y ago
Have you tried to recover (or return stuff) through a grocery chain card? It is worth the shredding of the sense of security you get. It is NOT their business.