Who hates Neopets Preminum???

[flukemaster64ii]

Join the NANP, Neopians Against Neopets Preminum. We want to reduce the people on the site until the Neopets Team gives in!

In case you didn't know, Neopets Preminum is a thing Neopets Team is planning to have you pay to play Neopets! Doesn't that make you want to scream! I can't afford $35 a month! That'll buy a whole starving village food for a month!

premium.neopets.com is the site of it.

We want to eliminate it! Get people to join on this fourm and others. We will then quit Neopets for a week. If we can get tons of users e-mail Neopets about this, then quit for a week, you'd think they'd be spooked.
We continue every month until they give in. Whaddyathink guys?

[Strechii]

I don't see what the big deal is. You can still play the site the same way without paying. If some people want to pay for extra features then that's their choice.

Maybe their will be less sponser stuff too.

[Moonshadow]

If you don't want to pay 35$ a month, then don't. If some people out there want to waste their money on it, then let them. Why does this concern you in the slightest? You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

[kamehameha0]

And besides, it would never work, do you know how many dozens upon hundereds of efforts I have seen in my four and a half years of playing Neo? They all failed, and so would this one. Sorry, but it's the truth, buddy.

[everconfused]

There is a topic about the premium services here:

http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4128

I highly doubt you are going to be able to "reduce the number of people on the site" by getting them to "quit" for a week. By that I'm guessing you mean no one log in for a week? The number of accounts would remain the same, if not grow regardless of any type of "boycott". The Day of Action proved that.

I think it would take more than the option of using or not using the premium services - the neomail and isp. I think it would take it being mandatory. In other words, making the site completely pay for play. Then yes, people would quit, either because they don't want to or can't pay.

Me? No I don't plan to use the services. They're redundant for me and I do think they're a bad idea. But I'm not going to quit or boycott over it.

[Kitten Medli]

I don't see what the big deal is. You can still play the site the same way without paying. If some people want to pay for extra features then that's their choice.

Maybe their will be less sponser stuff too.

Bingo.

[Mystique]

i agree with everconfused. for this one, it would cave in when they can't get enough sign-ups. unless premium players are going to get significant advantage to the point of unbalancing the game, i would prefer to play the waiting game.

[Jasujo]

$35 a month?? O.o My internet service isn't even that much. What are they offering to justify a price like that?

[Hershey2]

I don't think you are accurately representing the Neopet Premium service. Then again, I wonder what the premium service is all about myself. Am I wrong in deducing that it's a 4.95/month for a mailto:YOURNAME@neopets.com email addy OR an extra cost for their 'online service'. And since people have to already have an online service to access their site... what is that gonna do? Anyway, I don't see any reason why someone would sign-up for this. Unless I am missing something major...

typos Edit

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[Blue Wolf]

Get the prices right, people, it's not that expensive. It's 15,95$/month with the dial-up service, 4,99$/month or 39,95$/year for the premium pack and also 4,99$/month or 39,95$/year for the webmail service. All informations at the actual site.

I'm willing to subscribe for all 3 services, but I won't. The prices aren't what's keeping me from registering right away, though. It's the Terms of Services that I don't quite agree.

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[Labanieboo]

I don't see the big deal. Nobody's going to have an advantage over the site. And as someone already pointed out, the prices aren't even that expensive.

And Day of Action didn't work because it was a stupid idea.

[everconfused]

Hershey, that's how I feel about it. People, mostly, already have an ISP that has email, and there's quite a few free web-based email services. So why pay for one? The people I would email would not be impressed with @neomail.com as my email addy. They'd think I was even crazier than they do now!

The ISP, well yes it is less than many dial-up ISP providers, but first of all you get what you pay for (and even then you don't always), and more importantly, there is that whole Terms issue for the ISP as Blue Wolf wisely pointed out.

Oh and fluke? posting this on the neoboards using the wording you did is a sure way to get flamed, frustrated and possibly reported/warned. I stopped reading the thread on the second page, but it looked like it was getting very argumentative.

[skizzy the wonder lizard]

what is the terms issue?

(and would someone be so kind as to please PM me what the day of action was? i see it mentioned here all the time. thankies!)

[Kimberly777]

I'd like to know what the TOS was, the site isn't letting me in to look.

The toolbar in my opinion is ok. I need to get used to using it I guess, because so far, I still just go my normal way of getting to places.

[everconfused]

what is the terms issue?

(and would someone be so kind as to please PM me what the day of action was? i see it mentioned here all the time. thankies!)

this is from ppt topic Neopets Toolbar and was posted by SierraRaven (full credit given and great work getting this):

The ISP is velocity.

Here's the troubling part:

Quote:
No Confidentiality

Information transmitted through Provider and through the Internet in general is not confidential. Provider can not and shall not guarantee privacy or protection of any User. Provider reserves the right to monitor any User's transmissions when deemed necessary for providing proper service and/or to protect the rights and property of Provider.

Customer Information

Unless required by court order, subpoena or other legal request, or upon the advice of counsel, Provider may publish User's name and other consumer information in one or more directories that may be accessed by other Internet users. In addition, unless User notifies Provider to the contrary as provided above, Provider may make such information available to third parties from time to time. User understands further that merchants on the Internet may have access to such information and may make it available to third parties in accordance with their normal practices unless User notifies those merchants directly that User does not wish such information to be made available.

This causes great concern to me. Your information is not private with this ISP. They can and will pass it on, sell it, and whoever they sell it to will resell it. And note that they seem to be alot more concerned with their own rights than with a user's privacy and confidentiality.

The toolbar? I never download those. Did accidentally recently when I d/l the latest shockwave update. They snuck in a d/l of the yahoo toolbar in the shockwave update. My spyware went insane, my ISP went down as soon as that thing downloaded. I think? I've gotten rid of all of it. But now I have to uninstall shockware, download the stand alone version (on dial up ... ) and install it manually...Grrr