If I told you that you can get over $700 worth of stuff for $29.99, you’d probably be interested. But you’d also likely think there was a catch. And there is — but in this case it’s a good one: The net proceeds of that $29.99 are being donated to the American Cancer Society.
TheBigBundle is a site put together by TrialPay. Basically, they rounded up a bunch of tech companies (and some non-tech ones) and got them to offer some good deals to people who made the donation. So you’ll get things like, a free month subscription to Skype Unlimited, 6 months free of TripIt Pro, $25 off Everynote Premium, a $5 coupon to Threadless, 3 months free of Dropbox Pro, $50 off 23andMe, and a bunch of other stuff.
The goal is to raise $3 million to give to the American Cancer Society (which would be 100,000 bundles). They’ve given themselves until October 14 to reach the goal, so two weeks from today. So far today. in just a few hours, they’ve raised about $3,000.
As with all of these types of things, people often want to know exactly how much of their money is going towards the cause. TrialPay is very transparent about it, listing it on the site:
How much really goes to the American Cancer Society?
Virtually everything. The company putting on this promotion, TrialPay, is making no profit from sales of the bundle, and will be publishing a report at the end to detail the full accounting of the amounts it has collected from sales of the bundle and the amount contributed to the American Cancer Society. We expect that the American Cancer Society will receive a minimum of 70% and a maximum of 98% of your purchase price of the Bundle.
And you can also choose to donate an extra $20, and nearly 100 percent (minus a couple percent for the credit card fee) will go towards the American Cancer Society.
The basic idea behind TrialPay is to give customers something for free on top of an item they are already paying for.
So the companies behind this are giving their products literally for free…?
FUCK CANCER
are they going to replicate this to other causes?
This is a fantastic initiative. Congratulations!
This is an excellent idea and the bundle includes some really great offers. Kudos to Skype TripIt, Evernote, Threadless, Dropbox, 23andMe, and all the other participants for supporting this campaign.
@GreatSK — yes, most of the companies involved have given us the products for free for a very limited amount of time.
@antje — hopefully! we wanted to do something good with a lot of our clients and this is the result.
Alex
What a terrible rip off of the MacHeist style of fund raiser sales.
Such a sweet deal to get $700 worth of coupons for $29.99! Got to be kidding me.
Most of these are not coupons. You get a $10 gift card at Papa John’s, a $40 product from TrendMicro, a $20 game from PopCap, a month of unlimited calling on Skype, etc.
We are doing this 100% for a good cause, do not earn a penny, and it’s disappointing that you didn’t take the time to look at what was offered.
Alex
Don’t feed the trolls, Alex. Everyone who bothers to read the description can see the good value of the package. If you live in the US, at least, so unfortunately I won’t be buying one
This is a sweet deal for international users too. If you click lower you’ll see that they offer a 50% off the full price of the package to subscribe to the fanpage on facebook, so practically you pay $15 and get winzip, roboform, trendmicro, foxit, which can be used by international users too and are well worth the money. As for the other stuff, agreed, some of them are useful for us only. But software-wise it’s a sweet deal. If only they’d create a bundle of all their free software ( http://goodle.c...h-trialpay.html ) …
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