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Just FYI this letter came from Brent, the president...
Hi Everyone,
We are going to honor the 80% off for anyone who placed their order between 5am-9am. In order to take advantage of the difference please open a ticket by emailing sales@hostgator.com to request we refund the difference.
As you can imagine we are beyond swamped. According to alexa "hostgator" became the number one searched term on the internet beating out walmart, best buy, newegg, and even facebook. We had over 1,000 people in our billing system at a time trying to order. The amount of traffic we saw was 5x greater then an above average slashdot affect.
I knew the billing system would most likely fail to handle the amount of traffic, but what somewhat surprised me was that the hostgator website itself went down.
A few things to keep in mind......
In affiliate commissions alone we will be paying out over 2x the amount of total money collected.
On a whole it will be impossible for us to ever make a profit off anyone who placed an order at 50% let alone 80% off.
We do not have anywhere near 50% profit margin so when you take 50% off we are are losing money before even considering affiliate commissions.
Financially this offering made no sense in any shape or form. If we had offered this deal to existing customers it would have most likely put us out of business. I'm extremely sorry to all current customers who feel you were cheated.
So why did we do this deal?
The amount of exposure and brand awareness we gained from running this deal is priceless.
We are stealing thousands of customers from competitors who would have never of thought about switching to hostgator.
We are able to do something crazy every once in a while without putting ourselves out of business.
I'd love if you all could help me spread this posting to other forums and blogs that have similar discussions going.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Brent Oxley
Hi Everyone,
We are going to honor the 80% off for anyone who placed their order between 5am-9am. In order to take advantage of the difference please open a ticket by emailing sales@hostgator.com to request we refund the difference.
As you can imagine we are beyond swamped. According to alexa "hostgator" became the number one searched term on the internet beating out walmart, best buy, newegg, and even facebook. We had over 1,000 people in our billing system at a time trying to order. The amount of traffic we saw was 5x greater then an above average slashdot affect.
I knew the billing system would most likely fail to handle the amount of traffic, but what somewhat surprised me was that the hostgator website itself went down.
A few things to keep in mind......
In affiliate commissions alone we will be paying out over 2x the amount of total money collected.
On a whole it will be impossible for us to ever make a profit off anyone who placed an order at 50% let alone 80% off.
We do not have anywhere near 50% profit margin so when you take 50% off we are are losing money before even considering affiliate commissions.
Financially this offering made no sense in any shape or form. If we had offered this deal to existing customers it would have most likely put us out of business. I'm extremely sorry to all current customers who feel you were cheated.
So why did we do this deal?
The amount of exposure and brand awareness we gained from running this deal is priceless.
We are stealing thousands of customers from competitors who would have never of thought about switching to hostgator.
We are able to do something crazy every once in a while without putting ourselves out of business.
I'd love if you all could help me spread this posting to other forums and blogs that have similar discussions going.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Brent Oxley
I stayed up and couldn't get it, but sent them an email around 7 am that I was dissapointed that I couldn't get in. I ended up buying 50% but only later that day because I thought they might bring back the 80% off. Gona try to call them up tomorow and make a case to get a refund for the difference.