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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sounds like a great service.  Circa 1998.  Seriously, I don't know many people that have much need to transfer large (&gt; 10 MB) files.  The few that spring to mind have a persistent internet connection and a server.  The era for services like this is kinda behind us.

Even if something were to crop up, everyone knows someone like me -- someone with a public server sitting on a FiOS connection with 4 TB of disk space and Windows SharePoint Services (or similar collaboration software).  I don't mind sharing my server with friends and family, and I have plenty to spare.  I mean... a 1 TB hard disk costs $140 in a retail store.  Storage is almost free, anymore, and &quot;real&quot; bandwidth isn't expensive, either.

[You don't think people would be willing to pay $10 per month to avoid calling you? -- Scott]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jerryham]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi Scott, - perhaps too late to post a comment to this blog entry, (sorry, I have been swamped) but I am going to do so anyway. First, I see some others have already pointed out the pricing is slanted at folks who have no clue that such services are generally either free or next to free. That said, I think there IS a market for services like this but they will need to be innovative in order to take off. By innovative, I don't mean having Dogbert whip the progress bar.

For years we've been hearing that &quot;micropayments&quot; were going to be a big thing. Some of the statements around them were silly like &quot;1 penny per email to stop the spammers&quot; (who would then just hack real people's accounts and the real people would get the bill&quot;. However, a micropayment system with no monthly fee would make sense for the casual user. Advertise it like &quot;25 cents per file that is under 10 MB&quot; or something. I realize that the specs you show on the pricing page are around more permanent storage (1 person uploads and maybe it gets downloaded many times to many computers - which costs in bandwidth). However, the true &quot;send someone a file&quot; doesn't result in permanent storage. So, a &quot;per file&quot; plan with maybe 3 downloads allowed and then the file is deleted may be attractive to some. This would not include the 'backup' part of the existing service. Most people are tired of cell phone like plans where you pay even if you don't use the service. 

Another thing - if there is any decent security on this to speak of you should call that out right up front. (You have it in the FAQ, but I shouldn't have to go there). Even call it out in the &quot;movie&quot; where Dilbert sends Alice a file: have Wally try to hack it and get rejected (and have him get some consequence - darned by Phil, wedgie by the dino guy, etc.). And, you probably want to call out what your privacy plan is. For example when you start talking about &quot;huge files&quot;, you have to know that besides comics Photoshop files you will be getting copyrighted material, and let's say &quot;less than legal&quot; material - something about kids. People will want to know if you will end up giving your logs to the first government agency that requests them. Privacy policy - you need to have that up front, in bold.

Last comment. You mention Windows a lot and Outlook, etc. You also say &quot;web browser&quot;, but you don't mention other operating systems specifically. You say that you can always use the web browser, but it actually sounds like that is slanted at Windows '95 users (the 2 that are left). You should call out, &quot;works in Firefox on Ubuntu Linux&quot; or &quot;Works in Safari on Mac OS X&quot; or something so that those of us on other Operating Systems know. For example this post was done from Firefox on Ubuntu.

Anyway - innovate and you should be fine. Just copy something already available in sufficient quantity with the only real change being your Dilbert characters and its an also ran.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mguice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Definitely looks like a service created by Dogbert.  I would suggest extra additions that would be irresistible to his favorite market niche.  Have the files arrive in your favorite designer color; increase security by sending the files upside down; include a free virus infected ringtone that sells your text message address to the Russian mafia; little things like that.

 I was paying comics.com $10 a year to get the comic delivered in e-mail and was happy to do so.  As a nice filip it came with other comics.  Now the whole thing is free complete with new animation features and ad supported just in time for the advertising recession.  That looks like a business plan from a certain pointed haired person.

I think a better idea could be ripped from the late Oral Roberts.  Announce you are going to retire to Fuji unless everyone ponies up a donation via Pay Pal.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Sultan Khan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, as others have been saying, too expensive, and tech savvy people already know of good alternatives.  Also, I notice that the price structure is exactly the same on the Dilbertfiles version, which leaves me no reason to prefer it to the original service.

Scott, I love your comic, and have bought many of the Dilbert books.  I know that you want to make money by as many Dilbert spinoffs as possible, and I respect that; you're an entrepreneur.  But the Dilbert trademark is not going to persuade me to buy some unrelated product.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from theotherworldly]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[oh boy ...

This really seems like a sell-out venture. Dilbert doesn't - okay, it may have a vague office link - really have a huge relevance in the site idea, and it really seems like a very obvious commercialisation of the comic.

Furthermore, the heavy price .. it isn't worth the money at all. Keep it free first, or the opportunity cost wouldn't be worth it -- the cash spent here could be better on other providers.

You need to come up with an edge to it, for example, secure backup, support to all file extensions, antivirus, etc., or make the Dilbert element more relevant, instead of giving users a feeling of &quot;I could do away with this&quot;.

I might be giving terrible ideas (tell me if I'm using the term &quot;opportunity cost&quot; wrongly) ... I'm seventeen]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rodeoclown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Price is all wrong and too costly. You're basically providing a service that is essentially already free from other sites, many pointed out in others comments.

Take for example you're basic plan, it's $9.95 a month. I can get a regular host provider that has ten times the amount of storage and more bandwidth usage (send per month) than you're most expensive business plan, the Enterprise plan.

I think Dilbertfiles needs to go back to the drawing board if you want something like this to take off and help support Dilbert.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dhanur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Great idea for the collaboration, and great execution too!

.. BUT, for this to take off, you need critical mass and for critical mass, you need a free lite version first.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Chad]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[www.pando.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from richardhclark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I initially got a &quot;when is it available?&quot; from my colleagues until I looked at the proposed price.  It is WAAAAAAYYYY too expensive and we would never sign up.  Although the outlook plug-in is attractive.  

At our data transfer usage level, we would have to use the Enterprise level, but at this point it is far cheaper (by a factor of 10 or more) to keep our FTP site and use the free services when our customers want to.

I initially thought from (admittedly quickly) scanning the article that the revenues were generated by adverts. I guess I should pay better attention.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from richardhclark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I initially got a &quot;when is it available?&quot; from my colleagues until I looked at the proposed price.  It is WAAAAAAYYYY too expensive and we would never sign up.  Although the outlook plug-in is attractive.  

At our data transfer usage level, we would have to use the Enterprise level, but at this point it is far cheaper (by a factor of 10 or more) to keep our FTP site and use the free services when our customers want to.

I initially thought from (admittedly quickly) scanning the article that the revenues were generated by adverts. I guess I should pay better attention.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from richardhclark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I initially got a &quot;when is it available?&quot; from my colleagues until I looked at the proposed price.  It is WAAAAAAYYYY too expensive and we would never sign up.  ALthough the outlook plug-in is attractive.  

At our data transfer usage level, we would have to use the Enterprise level, but at this point it is far cheaper (by a factor of 10 or more) to keep our FTP site and use the free services when our customers want to.

I initially thought from (admittly quickly) scanning the article that the revenues were generated by adverts. I guess I should pay better attention.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from CourtneyK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One small problem (at least for me) would be that my company blocks all websites that don't have a &quot;category&quot;.  I have no idea what that means, other than I can't get to the site from work - which would seriously decrease my use of it.  Soooo... I don't know how one goes about categorizing one's website, but you might consider looking into it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from barmstrong]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To be honest, it seems like a sort of bizarre collaboration.

There is a free service called DropBox (www.getdropbox.com) that I've been incredibly impressed with.  They give you 2GB and it eliminates all the technical stuff like ftp, wget, etc.

Watch the video on their site.  I hope it stays free.  I think its far better than mediafire or sendyourfiles.com etc.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Tygerblade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Much as we all love Dilbert, I think your business sales would increase if &quot;Dilbert&quot; wasn't in the product name.  While the people who would actually use the product are probably Dilbert fans, the people who make the purchasing decisions are probably the same ones who get offended when their subordinates post your comics on their cubical walls....]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from xarvh]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Linux fanboy here, I use mostly scp and wget.
They have the advantage that if it's something you have to do it often you can automatize it.
If it's for job, you don't want flash or animations or bloat in the way, and you can afford to learn the tools.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from guilt]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wow. The price is too steep. Scott, you've got to be at par with the competition.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dastar3]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I saw more typos than have been mentioned that I was too lazy to list. Sorry. I almost did, which is probably not something I should brag about.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BTTFVGO]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's very interesting.  I like it.  Probably won't never have to use it, but I like it.  What happened to dilbert4sale.com?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tatsuke]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/14422]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Judging by the comments here, it appears that the success of a service like this relies on users not knowing there are free, sufficient alternatives already out there. [In the same way that walking is a free and sufficient alternative to driving a car. It depends what features you need. -- Scott]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from phuesken]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although I understand that you promote this in order to keep Dilbert comics free I still feel I need you to inform you that thereÂ´s a /much/ better way to send large files: https://www.streamfile.com/
(and yes, itÂ´s also much better than rapidshare, megaupload, yousendit etc)

Why should people want to have to log in and pay money in order to send large files ?
With Streamfile you type the recepient email address and  select the file and bingo.

Check it out.]]></description>
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