May 13, 2009
Giveaway Notifications Late Delivery
Dear Users!
In past few weeks we’ve received enormous number of emails regarding one problem – late notifications delivery. We’re aware of this problem, but can’t really deal with it… You see e-mail notifications service works through the Feedburner.com that belongs to Google. Thus we can’t control it, ensure its accurate work and guarantee perfect timing.
If e-mail notifications is the only convenient way for you to get the latest information on our giveaways, we can advise you to reactivate your subscription the following way:
- deactivate it using the “unsubscribe now” link from one of the Giveaway of the Day letters;
- after that you can try to subscribe again using the link from the site – as you did before.
Please note that there are other (more reliable) ways to be informed about new giveaways:
- RSS Feed (for software as well as for comments)
- our ticker on your web-site
- or you can simply check our web-site once a day ;) We are always glad to see you at giveawayoftheday.com!
All additional information you can find in the right column of our site and in the Spread the Word section.
Regards,
Giveaway Of The Day project team
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Maybe you could just use a googlegroup instead of feedburner vector, and the people getting email notification won’t have so much lag? Really, this is not something you need to defer control of — there are as many solutions for email lists at GotD has DVD rippers! :)
Thanks for the post. In general, I think, it’s better to use the blog in a timely manner, like you’ve done here. If not, people’s imaginations sometimes run wild, and a lot of unwarranted rumors float around and muddy the water’s of what is actually a great service.
I recently have had a problem recieving my emails from you the last two weekends I have not recieved a email at all. And I don’t have a recent email of yours to unsubscribe from. or resubscribe to.
thankyou
Kathleen R. Bacalja
scifimom2004@hot mail.com
There is a forum post with some links to explain and assist with setting up RSS support to receive giveaway notifications.
I would like to check the site once a day but you page is one of the slowest I visit. It takes a good 3 to 5 seconds to load whereas other sites with a lot more content load much faster, what gives. But I will keep checking back with you. maybe you will come up with someing better.
Oh my God, 3 to 5 seconds.
My life is ruined.
3 to 5 seconds? wow u must be busy if u cba to wait 5 seconds to see whats on the website :/
After unsubscribing and resubscribing, I received the up-to-date email for several days, but this morning, it’s back to being one-cay-late.
Must visit the site every day.
Received the May 13th offering this morning (May 14th). Checking the message routing information found the followng which I believe confirms that it was sent late.
“X-Originating-IP: [209.85.217.236]
Received: by mail-gx0-f236.google.com with SMTP id 16so585588gxk.6
for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 00:04:11 -0700 (PDT)”
After I unsubscribed and subscribed, not even one email came through on the right day – I too, will just visit the site every day. Thanks for acknowledging this…
perhaps an email to Google is my next action.
Thank you for addressing this issue. I noticed that they are on time unless it’s a product that I want, then it’s always a day late! Figures.
Anyway, I missed out on both dvd to ipod rippers. Sheesh.
Google Reader ftw!
put a shortcut icon on the desktop to the Giveaway page and you don’t have to even look at your email.
I have an add-on to Firefox [Morning Coffee] and it opens up the GAOTD page every morning for me, that way I don’t have to rely on Google!
I am currently receiving ALL the emails one day late, so I get the infuriating “no longer available” message. This morning, 15 May 2009, I checked my emails at 10.20 am local time (GMT – Ireland) and saw that the GAOTD email was sent at 08:03:48 on 15 May, but the download page said the program was only available on 14 May. I use hotmail. Why does the the GAOTD have to go via Google? Surely there must be another way of sending emails that is on time?
(By the way, thanks for the laugh Mr “Flap”! I have dial-up connection because there is no broadband available here on the west coast of Ireland. I frequently have to wait 3 to 5 MINUTES for a page to load! And often, after such a wait, I just get a “timed out” or “try later” message. Programs download at about 3 kbps and the connection keeps breaking. That means a 2mb download typically takes about 30 minutes! The Flap lives in paradise and doesn’t even know it! Gives a whole new dimension to the word “flappable”!)
This is a mess. Perhaps you need a new provider, if feedburner cannot get the email out in a timely fashion.
or you can do like I have done and add it as an additional home page that way when you start your browser for the day you automatically see what is being offered.
All of your suggested solutions are work arounds because they require us to change the way we are comfortable working with your organization. YOU not your customers must find a solution that works. If the Google solution doesn’t work, and it apparently doesn’t, then you need to find one that does rather than have us change the way we want to access your site. If I had wanted to access your site daily, I would do so; if I ran an RSS reader, I’d do that, etc….but I don’t, and I’m not alone. Find a solution that works….
I too do not wait for emails. I have a system set up on my browser (mozilla Firefox), so that each day I look at my schedule for the day and there it is, GAOTD, click & I am there. No hassles no complaints.
Thanks for the GREAT software once in a while. Most times it is things that I personally do not need, so I leave and come back the next day.
I just had the same problem as everyone else and like evryone else I noticed it was late as it was something I was interested in. Perhaps GOTD could leave things up for TWO days while evryone gets used to the mail problem and trys to work around it.
I too have problems with your email notifications. Today not only was the email a day late but I received 2 emails back to back that were a day late. If you are going to offer email notifications, then you MUST insure that they are delivered in a timely matter. If not then maybe the offers coukld be left up for 2 days.
thanks for the tip about firefox addon Morning Coffee – looks like that will be my answer. It works, is in my control and it facilitates a habit I can get into.
yes its ALWAYS the ones I want that are late..grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Really if a company as large as google cant fix the problem maybe we should get rid of all our google shares quickly at whatever price we can get … for they must? are? be/in serious trouble..
Syb
I can’t believe how many people seem so inconsiderate. Being a web designer, I can understand the problems GOTD is experiencing. Understand that they pay these publishers to give away their software. And the revenue that GOTD earns is more then likely from purchase referrals and advertising.
No how many of you honestly click on the ads shown on this site. I am guessing not many of you from what you are all saying. You only visit the site when there is something you want.
Respect that this site exists and just try one of the options they are offering. I am more then sure they are working on getting the email issue worked on. Mail servers are not aways cheap. Is it that hard to add their rss feed to your vista desktop in the sidebar, or maybe if you use windows live, add their feed to your subscribed. If you have a google account you can also have your feeds on your main page.
If this is all too difficult, then you are completely idiotic since you can’t just take 2-3 minutes out of your day to see whats new on GOTD. Get with the program and quite demanding that all your needs need met. Grow up and start respecting that websites like this exist
Half the time I don’t even get an email at all and I’m sorry but there are other things I have to think about than remembering to check the site every day. That’s why I signed up for a reminder email. For some of us email is the only sensible option that you offer and you have basically just said we don’t matter.
Thank you for answering some questoins I had and for taking the matter seriously. Thanks. Keep up the god work. :)
I agree with Doug Weiss. If you want a successful website, YOU need to fix this problem. Requiring your customers to work around the problem is not an acceptable response if you plan to maintain and grow your business.
It is becoming so frustrating that I am likely to unsubscribe from your emails completely.
gosh, i feel so out of it. It never occurred to me to get email notifications. I have to open my browser, so i have a link to GAOTD on my home page, and i can see what is being offered, if it looks interesting, i go to the site, if not, i ignore it, and no emails to delete. I mean, the title says it all, we know it is going to change once a day, soooo, it is so easy to just have it on my home page, just like the weather! that changes every day, too!
Hi,
I wonder if GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY could acquire products from DAOISOFT.COM which seem to be very good: I have DTWEAK FREE, which I may have obtained through GOATD, and which is far superior to any of the other similar products.
How about it? Hope you are successful as I think the maker of the software is Russian and may need more exposure to the Western market, which GOATD is ideally placed to offer.
I appreciate the offerings you make available to your subscribers. Thanks a lot.
Jason
Hi … Since I had the same issue with either the emails coming a day-late or no emails at all, I just set you as my homepage on firefox … so simple of a solution and no complains from me either. I appreciate all the offers that you make available here … and I do not even mind the 3-5 seconds to load up the pages …lol !!
I am sorry, but I cannot believe that anyone has to depend on a reminder that there is a give away of the day out there to be checked on a daily basis! So, ok, if you need reminded; then simply make GAOD your home page and boot up to it everyday!
I too for the past 7 days have been receiving mail from you 24 hours late so have not been able to download anything.
Surely it is not beyond the wit of the human brain for you to make downloads available for 48 hours instead of only 24 hours.
This way it can solve all the ‘late arrival’ problems without you having to change from Google notification service.
It’s late because you’ve set it to go out 24 hours later than it should be!
I got an email today for yesterday’s Giveaway. It was received in the morning of 17/7 and was sent at 12am on 16/7 – that means midnight at the *end of the 16th*/beginning of the 17th. It should actually have gone out at *12:01am* on the *16th* to arrive ON the 16th.
It seems odd that the emails are consistently one day late, doesn’t it? Perhaps the answer is for GAOTD to send out emails 24 hours earlier so we will get them on time. If this were an airline, who would fly? I do love the GAOTD service and will continue to visit daily — but, please, let’s address the problem and not ask people to be so frustrated.
Here is the solution you have all been looking for…
Visit the site. Then right click and select Add to Favorites !!!
If you are really..really..really concerned then select Add to Homepage.
Honestly, I can understand the niceties of being advised by email of new Give Aways..But a bit of common sence please! You MUST visit the site to download, so simply visit the site for updates! It is IMPOSSIBLE to get an email without accessing the internet!! Even your “can’t live without” mobile MUST go online to get email! If you are so busy (or lazy) that you cannot visit the site each day to check the lastest give away, then why are you after the give away in the first place?
what i think you need to do to get this matter straighten out is go off goggle and get like aol and things this way we are not getting the gaotd late like they have been as i like getting and wanting the things that are here .
I was also receiving the emails from GOTD late so subscribed to the RSS feed. Not difficult to subscribe and the notifications are there right on time.
I too am getting them too late todays arrived at 12.06 and was already finished. sigh. I will try the unsubscribe resubscribe thing but it’s only been happening for me this last week.
I wonder why this problem has suddenly arisen, everything seemed to have been going OK until recently so what has changed with Google I wonder and can we contact Google about this to get them to rectify the problem?
I have always thought you should send out tomorrows give Away in the e mails … I think it would clear up this problem and also would promote people to talk about what is coming and create a buzz.
Just a thought.
Does google own the internet? There surely must be other ways to get your emails out. I live on west coast and now find it impossible to download anything. Please remove me from your list if you can’t fix this download problem.
I suggest GAOTD sends the email a day early. You must be able to know which software will be on offer the next day.
While I appreciate the daily giveaways, I too feel that this issue is something the users shouldn’t have to “work around”.
It’s surprising that Feedburner/Google has problems. I have checked my email properties and also found the emails were sent one day late.
I like my homepage blank for faster start up and don’t want to have to change it to “work around” somebody else’s problem!
Thanks for the update on the issue but it would be nicer if y’all would fix it!
My current “work around” is – click email, click logo at top of page, click “Proceed to download page”, THEN look at the day’s giveaway.
The problem has hit me in two ways: 1.Occasionally no email notification; 2. Otherwise email a day late. When I resubscribed I read Feedburner’s explanation about the trigger for the email and this may be the crux of the problem. There may be a timing problem over when you GOTD send them new content and they actually get it. I suggest you move your sending off midnight PDT so there’s no ambiguity about which day it applies to and also to avoid contention with other users for that critical time.
I have GOTD in my bookmarks toolbar, so I remember to check every day. If I simply added it to my bookmarks, it’d get lost ’cause I’ve got a few thousand bookmarks. Suggestion for a GOTD: A bookmark organizer which supports Mozilla Firefox 3, ’cause they no longer store the bookmarks in an HTML file so some won’t work.
I appreciate the opportunity for free software. However, we all know that the software vendors hope to sell software. I have personally bought at least one of the programs offered on GAOTD. If you your goal is to people to try out the software, you need to eliminate the source of our frustation. If you are going to offer notification, it needs to be timely. Fix it or eliminate it. Thank you for a forum to express my opinion.
One option I haven’t seen mentioned yet is wootalyzer.com, which lets you set up emails (or SMS or download an alerting tool) for any of the daily deal sites. GOTD is listed under Software/Video Games. I only use email alerts, and they are not completely reliable — I don’t get emails at all some days, but it has been working fine lately. I get the day-late email from GOTD along with the current-day email from wootalyzer. If I get neither, I just use my bookmark to GOTD. Can’t be any simpler than that. And I’m on dial-up.
What a bunch of whiners.
WAAAAAAAAAA!
OK, here’s some rocket science. If you get the reminder late, but get it every day, it still reminds you to check the page. Just check the GAOTD home page instead of the link to the expired product.
This will all get worked out. The internet’s reliability is like the old road system and Model T’s. Suck it up and deal with it. This, too, shall pass. Hey, that’s a lot of cliche’s and mixed metaphores! :)
Hey, I just took my own suggestion and, from the “expired” page I clicked on the GAOTD home page, where I found the “expired” product available! Either they took the advice to leave the product up two days, or I found a time warp into the WayBackMachine. Kewl!
I love all of the complaints. I have found the best solution, and it works every time, if for me to simply check the website.
#18 I laughed when I read your posring. GAOTD is kind enough to line up these programs, make sure that they will work, most of the time, and host a website that tells us about them. I would say that they really don’t need to change anything. It might be nice if they did, but speaking solely for myself, I think they have a very nice system as things are.
GAOTD team, As far as this user is concerned, you folks do an awesome job. Thanks so very much, and have a GREAT day.
James Kilburn
jr1kilburn@msn.com
GOTD is one of my home tabs in firefox, so I see it at least once a day, I signed up for the email for my work address and it does arrive there a day late, but I will just add GOTD as a home tab at work also and all is well, no email needed
I have GOTD as one of my home pages, and that by and large solves the problem of late notification.
What it does not solve – and no method can – is the fact that whilst I have broadband at home, I am simply not able to log on every day, so whilst I am very happy with GOTD, it really would be great if “Yesterdays GOTD” could also be available.
Perhaps that could be given further consideration, and just in case anyone thinks that it’s potentially the “thin end of the wedge”, I would neither ask for nor expect any longer – that extra day would solve 8 or 9 out of every 10 of my “misses” and I would be more than happy with that, and I imagine it would be the same for most other users.
unsubscribe and resubscribe did not help. You guys have to fix this, otherwise it is useless. If it is a matter of your posting it too late or your server or service is posting it too late, you have to fix.
Yes, I have to look at the site to get it on time, but that defeats the purpose of the posts. I should not have to look elsewhere for your posts.
Fix this and do better!
Ok, I’ve unsubscribed and re-subscribed twice now and I’m still a day behind. Crazy…does it have to be this difficult. I’m feeling really ticked off or really stupid right now. I’m sure I did just as it stated on what to do.
Hello:
How about keeping each “give-a-way” available for two days – that would solve the ‘one day late’ problem!
Sparky
Yes, I’ve been getting a lot of email notifications late recently. I’m relieved to hear that it isn’t just me, but that doesn’t solve the problem. Sorry, GAOTD, but you really DO need to fix it.
They do email notifications? Damn! no one told me.
Hello,this has happened to me several times now. I thought it was my system or RR, but Im receiving your email a day late especially on ones I would love to have the last 3 to be exact. this last one was received at 12:00am dated 5-21-09. But when I click on the link it says it has expired as of 5-20-09.
Also Advanced system care expired on the same day is there anything wrong?
To #18: Who do you think YOU are? They offer the stuff for nothing, just create a shortcut and check for stuff, no one owes YOU anything…If your that unhappy with the way it notifies, then invent something, Edison..Jew…figures..
Tried the unsubscribe resubscribe thing.. still won’t work. That is all I can do to try and fix it from my end. This seems basic to me. We ALL signed up for e mail notification. It was running fine, now it’s not. It’s not US it’s not GAOTD so it’s Google. They must have changed something so. GAOTD contact google and tell them to fix this or remove your business and satisfy your customers so that you are servicing them the way you ALREADY were and the way they signed up. Oh Yes I can visit the page, but it’s not what I signed up for and it’s not what you HAVE provided for years now. Put your big boy panties on and fix this and provide the customer service you are known for. It’s a simple contract we signed up for and you are not delivering as agreed.
Sorry but your subscribers are not responsible so head out to where the person is who is.
This really does not seem to cover the problem – I receive each daily, yet it seems those I particularly wish to download, as today’s, are no longer available.
I’m aware that these must be coming from somewhere outside the USofA since the time is usually around 1:30AM. But when I log in – this morning it’s only 10:AM – and find that this day’s offering is no longer available, I become frustratingly angry.
Since there was an offering yesterday, 20 May, then this one e-mailed at 1:30AM on 21 May must be for today therefore to have it canceled within 9 hours seems a might ridiculous.
While I enjoy the occasional giveaway, I’m not interested in having to check the site every day. As it was, with the emails, maybe 1 in 10 times, there was something interesting enough to me that I clicked on it. Even then, I didn’t always download the programs. Most days I just delete the email. So it took a while for me to even notice that the emails were showing up too late. You guys seem pretty smart. Surely you can figure out a way to fix this!
While my previous comment is still “Waiting approval”, let me add that it wouldn’t bother me (at all!) to get emails a day ahead!
Think about it… if the current set-up is “sending” the emails one day late, then a minor tweak in the original “sending” time should result in the emails being “early” ie. one day early!
Seriously, I do think it would be a simple fix in the original “sending” time from GAOTD servers.
Like the man on Saturday Night Live keeps screaming…
FIX IT!!!
lol
Thanks (again!) to the GAOTD Team for the give-aways!
Tory
Here’s what I think the problem is:
The Giveaway changes at midnight Pacific Coast Time and Feedburner.com takes a snapshot of the the offer to send out emails at midnight as well. If Feedburner.com is beating out the change in GOTD we get emails from yesterday’s offer. I usually receive my email from GOTD a few minutes after midnight. Those few minutes are probably the delay of the mail servers plus the delay due to sending out many emails at once (my name may be down the list). A solution to try here would be to have Feedburner.com wait until say, 12:05 AM to send the emails or GOTD to change the offer a few minutes early. Do you think this may solve the problem?
Man.. I Missed ArtStudio 1.2.1
T_T
I’ve been getting emails a day behind for some time but it’s not worth getting worked up about. I just click on the Giveaway home page and – bingo! – there’s the day’s offering.
Know idea what happened but I did the unsub from the emails, waited a few (cleaned out all your cookies & files & all googles in that time) then resubscribed and it seems to have worked … I received at 3:02am my time the email with todays offer but lol it also has yesterdays listed after it … I’ll take it as is as long as I get the current offer one time,,,
thanks
To all the complaining people….get your sh-t together!!!!If you are sooooo lazy that you can’t check the site for a ‘free’ game then you have BIGGER problems in your life that you need to explore. Does your Mother still do your laundry too? What do you want….a pity party? Do you need everything handed to you on a plate? What has this world come to that you are THAT lazy? WAH! Who plays the game for you when you do get it??? Put the site in your favorites and click it every day you bunch of babies!
Ya know what people??? Y’all are so friggin’ spoiled it isn’t even funny! Quit being lazy and, like has been suggested, set GAOTD as your home-page if you’re so friggin’ burned out that you can’t remember to check the site daily! The developers here have lives also! They can only do so much before it is time to go home to their family! I have no complaints about this site and I REALLY don’t think y’all should either! It’s not like you’re losing any money out of your pocket!@!!!! IT’S A FREE SITE FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!! LMFAO!!! Get real!
THANKS GO TO THE FINE PEOPLE OF GOATD FOR A GREAT SITE AND A JOB WELL DONE AND ALSO ALL THE FREE STUFF THEY OFFER US!!!
Goodness me!
I can not believe the criticism that you guys at GAOTD are subject to (and on a regular basis!). I would imagine that the financial gains from this site are not huge; you must wonder why you bother sometimes!
Just to let you know, that the vast majority of us really appreciate the great software that you negotiate for us and think you do a great job. So what if the emails are late! It takes a few seconds to visit the site! I’m sure Google will sort it out eventually anyway, so you just concentrate on getting us more great software please!
Thanks Guys!
I can not believe people are actually complaining about this! I go to the site each day & check what is available. You are being given ‘free’ programs etc….. is that not enough of an incentive to visit without being held by the hand.
Thanks GOTD for your efforts ;o)
Here’s my observation… The option of receiving a daily email is an offered option, so obviously some folks are gonna use that option as their notification. There’s no point in you folks that don’t choose that option to bash the folks who do. Since using the site relies on a 24hr timeframe, it is pointless to even offer an email notification if it arrives a day late. If the service used by GOTD to mail the notifications can’t get them there in the early part of that 24hr timeframe, then email notifications should be suspended until a timely service is found. It basically becomes a waste of time on everyones part. The GOTD folks writing the email are wasting their time. The email service folks pushing the button to mass mail the notification are wasting their time. The folks opening their email client/webservice to read the late nofification are wasting their time too. It’s an all around pointless effort, kinda like changing a flat tire with another flat tire. Like I said this is just an observation, NOT a complaint. I don’t even subscribe to the email, I use a bookmark. I do appreciate GOTDs efforts.
What’s the purpose of the double listing emails? I’ve gotten 2 or 3 of these, recently – today in fact – when no email came the previous day. In other words, an email that contains two offerings. Today’s and yesterday’s, even though it’s no longer available. I saw a forum post complaining about this from a year ago. It makes me think your explanation doesn’t quite hold water.
I hope you will start taking this more seriously. For one thing, as has been said, Feedburner is not the only service. For another, you don’t, necessarily, have to release at midnight, PDT (PST), as Wayne #42 points out, since it seems to be giving feedburner problems.
And to all the people who laugh at others out there, yes, I check the web page when there’s no email. If you can’t see the value of making sure a system you set up to serve your users works right, or cancelling it if it doesn’t, I don’t want to invest money in any business YOU might start.
My email notifications have started coming on time.
Have been for the last two – three days.
It appears that something got fixed or tweaked and the emails are arriving properly.
Patience pays off!
Thanks again to the Team!
Torymon
GOTD loving the work you do not a problem with it.
I have your link at the top of my browser and when I want to look I just click it and bang there you are.
No delays no errors no problems with the email since i dont need to subscribe I just look when I can easy simple and if I miss something I wanted well ****** life goes on.
Maybe its worth removing the email option it will help your eyes not having to read moaning people’s messages because they can’t be bothered to look for themselfs.
Keep up the good work folks and a big thank you to you all aswell.
GAOTD has an RSS feed. I use that…
Hi, I need your help badly. I was able to download your free give away of the day the “Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum” sometime ago last month. However, I missed the deadline to activate its license key. Can you please help me activate it? I can’t afford to buy it and I really appreciate the free download. Its badly needed for my son’s celphone. This software works great but there is a evaluation copy watermark and no audio (limited to 5 minutes trial audio) unless I am able to activate its license key to register. Thank you very much.–Jerry
When I see the complaints regarding late emails it reminds me of the tongue-in-cheek skit of two people on an escalator. The escalator stops in the middle and rather than walk the rest of the way up, the people waste a lot of time calling out for help and waiting for it to be repaired rather than just walk up the rest of the stairs and let someone know.
Although, it is nice to have an email that alerts you to that day’s offering (I didn’t even know that was an option) I do not find it any bother at all to surf to the address , wait the 3-5 seconds for it to load (oh, the shame!) and see what is being offered each day.
Frankly, I find it a fantastic one-of-a-kind site. Even if it is only once-in-a-while that I find a product that is a fit for me, just the fact that their team works tirelessly day in and day out to keep such a service running is in itself unbelievable. The fact that people find reason to complain so much about the selections or quality of any automated notifications as if they were paying a monthly subscription for this service is almost as incredible!
I have GATD as my second home page and thus it gets loaded as I am looking at my primary home page. I do feel sorry for that person who has to wait 2 to 3 seconds for the site to download, good lord, it must ruin his/her day.
Great site and thank you
Regards
“The Flap” said this:
“5.I would like to check the site once a day but you page is one of the slowest I visit. It takes a good 3 to 5 seconds to load whereas other sites with a lot more content load much faster, what gives. But I will keep checking back with you. maybe you will come up with someing better.”
Wow…someone actually posted this…amazing. And stupid.
This commenter actually COMPLAINS about having to wait 2 SECONDS more than another web site for the home page to load…even though they are getting something that normally costs money for FREE.
May I suggest this person (and any other ungrateful person who thinks like this) take their 2 seconds and insert it up their exit path.
Simple suggestion.. Everyone uses Firefox, right? They have a marvelous little Add On called “Morning Coffee” where you can put all the pages you want to see daily or however often you choose. I have this site in there along with woot, froobi, etc. and all I have to do is click on the coffee cup icon and (Wallah!) there they all are in tabs lined up for me to go through. This is the easiest way I have found to make sure I visit the most important sites every day!
Thanks again to the great folks here who offer these progs & games!
~ Grammie ~
Some people simply have no real life but try to create one by entering complaints and utterly stupid comments on various websites. Intelligent people would realize what a gift Gaotd is and exert enough effort to check it every day if they feel they need to. Quite frankly, I don’t check it every day, but I have downloaded some great software when I did. Hmmmm 3-5 second delay huh? I’d be glad if I could keep my computer up and running 100% of the time. Must be some very busy people in the world.
I must also have a different version of Windows XP since I have the ability to create a shortcut to Gaotd on my desktop and move it to the system tray for ready daily access.
And maybe half the programs that are available on this site I don’t need? So I forget to check?
Let’s see the last week or so –
YouTube Downloader — Must be a thousand around. I use Orbit Downloader.
Extra DVD Creator — I use DVDStyler, DVDFlick, and several other open-source programs I can’t remember the name of.
Advanced Email Printer — wtf?
Paragon Drive Copy 9.0 Personal SE — I don’t do drive images as I don’t have an external HDD — yet.
MP3 Music Editor — Audacity.
Tree Menu — I don’t have a website.
Extra Youtube Downloader + Converter — See above.
Exam Reactor — I have no idea what this even is.
EvJO Photo-Image Resizer — Man people are getting lazy. You can do this in any working image editor. And there’s free tools online to let you do batches.
StarBurn — I use ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP or Nero (which I got for free).
But of course there are people who will only use paid software. Which is kind of ridiculous if you ask me. The only paid software I have on my computer is games (not those silly casual games, but real games such as Sid Meier’s Civilization), Nero (which I got for free), Paint Shop Pro (got that for free too), an old old old old version of Photoshop which was laying around, and…. oh damn I forgot the last one. But the other 97% or more of non-game software is freeware or open-source.
80 posts to state the obvious? allways, all ways on time. Simply set Giveaway as homepage. Arrr.
OK, I spent 15 min looking for the download link for the RAM… where is it? Will it be here tomorrow in the late email download?
I love your downloads… as I just can’t afford so many of them and can use them all.
I think it is so great you are able to do this and I hope it’s people like me that can’t afford it are the ones receiving them.
I need more RAM on my PC… can you help me get a 2000 for a Dell?
Thanks
CaptainKC Nielsen
Have you thought about, since the day late problem with subscribers
not getting notified on time to take advantage of the giveaway. Just extend the giveaway two (2) days instead of one. I have noticed that my notification is usually three to four hours into the next day before it is received. Thanks very much either way for listening.
Well it was fixed for a short while!
My emails are arriving one day late again…
As said previously, no big deal, just an irritation!
Just a heads up to the Team, emails are late again!
Thanks
It was disappointing a few times when I got an email for something really cool, only to find out that it was yesterday’s.
So I got creative: unsubscribed, then set GOTD as my home page.
Not that complicated…live and learn…
Thank you for being there GOTD!
As for commenter’s #20,#21, and #87. It wouldn’t be called GIVEAWAYOFTHEDAY.COM if the give away was up for two days. It’s kinda in the title. Day not days. Whats the big deal checking it yourself once a day? Or for the real lazy ones, just add it to your homepage tabs, then it’s automatic. If I don’t see the email in my inbox everyday, I just go to the site. Not a big deal. Lately my emails are late as well, and sometimes they don’t come at all, but I still appreciate all the time and effort the GOTD Team puts in to keep this site up and running everyday for everyone to enjoy. Keep up the good work!!!
FREE games, and people complain about any detail surrounding the exchange? For real? Give me a break! They are FREE games. No one is suffering.
Don’t change a thing! If people can’t pull their heads out enough to simply check once a day then they don’t have time for anything on here anyway. What do these people do when an ACTUAL problem presents itself in their lives?
I Say to all the Whiners get of the Horse and give it’s back a rest, the Problems happen to us all. If U are not happy leave or easier still Check the GAOTD WebSite Every Day rather that wait for the Email to arrive.
*Long Live GAOTD*
I’m not that savvie can a person add you to facebook
I cannot believe all the people that keep checking for their “free” software are complaining. Shame on all – just check their web site if you want free and stop acting like they owe you something more than free!
I like the fact that you send emails to inform me of new games that are available but….I enjoy your games sooo very much that I go to your web sight every day as to not miss anything new so… in reality your emails timing is not at all important. Thanks for such a wonderful web sight and keep up the good work…Jody
Wow! It’s hard to believe that with all the issues out there, so many people are complaining about someone giving them something free – just because they don’t give it to you the way you like it. Wow. Also – we are not “customers” of GAOTD because that would mean we are “buying” something. No, rather, they are trying to do us a favor.
For those of you getting emails “a day late” – one of the issues you could be running into is the Internation dateline.
Just some thoughts. There are bigger things in life to be upset about.
International dateline (typo)
guys and gals, you’re obviously missing something. this stuff is free and they take the time to make sure it’s on the site for us to get. the least *we* can do is manage ‘five seconds’ or even a few minutes to visit the site to get it. we can’t have everything handed to us on a silver platter. stop being lazy and stop your moaning and just visit :)
I was also receiving the emails from GOTD late.That’s why? I don’t want to complain,I just want you will do better.
Thank you for all those great offers! Only a pity that since a week I am not receiving e-mail at all. I tried a different e-mailadres from a different provider, but that did not work either. Off course I can use rss-feed, but I hope you have a solution for the e-mailproblem.
Greetings, Angela
I, like many others, have been deeply frustrated by GOTD notification emails serially arriving the day after the offer. That wastes my time. It engages my interest in the products – then disappoints. I come away feeling negative about GOTD and the vendors’ products. That means I am LESS likely to be attracted to buy.
I really don’t want that dose of disappointment several times a week. Please unsubscribe me permanently. I have other calls on my time.