Outbox Is Shutting Down

Re:Outbox Is Shutting Down by rahulcap on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @07:37PM (#7099776)

Totally agree with this. Their business never made much sense in charging only $5 to "undo" what USPS does, but it worked great and is really useful when travelling. They should have tested a $19.99 price point before shutting down. I'm not sure i would have kept paying it for too long, but worth a shot.

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Re:Outbox Is Shutting Down by jmathai on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:23PM (#7100486)

I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of their service but if $5 wasn't working out they wouldn't be able to solve it by simply increasing the price.

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Re:Outbox Is Shutting Down by rahulcap on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:00AM (#7101245)

Yeah, i guess it was just too crazy of an idea to work. I personally would have paid $20/month for at least the next 6 months as I am travelling a lot and get tons of value from remote mail access. I agree, though, that with the general value prop if its not worth $5 for most people, it is certainly not worth $20! As a side note: I'm surprised they only had 2k users with a 5M investment round. Seems like they burned cash in some expensive marketing channels.

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Re:Outbox Is Shutting Down by pbreit on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:22PM (#7100000)

$250 a year for practically nothing? I'm not sure that'd work.

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