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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by whizzkid on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:24AM (#12635740)
Here are my 2 cents about the pricing page you have @jasonkester

"Cheap Bastard Plan" is both little too much slang, and unpleasant to look at if you are in a demo to show this service to upper management.

I am not saying that you should have a boring, enterprisey pricing page with formal words, in fact I really like what you did there with free plan. Just saying that you can rephrase it with little more easy-going words. :)

Great product, congrats!

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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by oldmanjay on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:29AM (#12635773)
I would like to encourage you to rename it the "Cheap Fucking Bastard Plan" because discomfort amongst the corporate set is good for America.
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by enraged_camel on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:44AM (#12635901)
The "I Embezzled the Entire Department Budget and Spent It On Hookers and Cocaine" plan
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by knodi123 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:44AM (#12636369)
Hi, DOJ here, just wondering if you'd be willing to forward me a list of people who read that link and then clicked on it? Thanks!
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by CodeMage on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:31PM (#12639664)
Don't forget Friday beers with PFY.
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by jasonkester on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:42AM (#12635891)
You'll want Upper Management to be looking at the Features Page[1] instead. Though I should probably add some more check marks to it just to be on the safe side.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/Features.aspx

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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by Sebguer on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:06PM (#12636530)
The fact that some of the 'features' are two lines, but there's no way to differentiate rows makes that page kind of hard to read, fwiw. Not that it really matters, because who actually gives a shit about those aside from the # of check marks!
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by milankragujevic on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:43PM (#12637510)
Just wanted to +1 this issue, OP can fix this if they increase the width of the container of the page.
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by wpaladin on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @08:14PM (#12640708)
There's a typo there - "complements", not "compliments". "S3STAT is a service that compliments Amazon's CloudFront and S3 offerings"
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by kenrikm on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:52AM (#12635975)
Or he could keep it as it is.. add a link to the page for a new page "For the Big Wigs" that's more enterprisey and uses words like "synergy"
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by jrs235 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:29AM (#12635779)
Touche. Perhaps "Cheap Side Project Plan" would work. Most upper managers wouldn't want their project(s) to be considered mere side projects...
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by devopsproject on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:11PM (#12636561)
Not everything needs to be sanitized to protect the delicate sensibilities of America's boardroom.
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by anbende on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:13PM (#12641151)
Only those things that one is hoping to sell in those boardrooms...
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by kristianc on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:43AM (#12636365)
$300 a month falls well within discretionary spend for even moderately sized orgs. This would need at most, VP level sign off.
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Re:Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars by noonespecial on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:46PM (#12637546)
In fact it's often far easier to get hundreds of dollars per month approved than tens. Everybody knows who's responsible for approving hundreds, no one really wants to think about who approves $10. All of the people who want to spend $10 are approved for nothing at all of the people who would approve and set up $10 are too busy for such small stuff.

I'd jack it to $750. To corporate, it's the exact same choice.

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