dreamhost and bodhisattva vow
Posted by Clarity on 11 Oct 2005 at 09:16 pm | Tagged as: Buddhism, Tech
Today a friend wrote to me that he tried to sign up for a Dreamhost account via my link and noticed that if you enter the promo code 888 as I suggested, you do indeed get 80% off - so the whole year of hosting comes to 24$!!!, but that voids my referral fee so I don’t get anything. He suggested that perhaps it would be better to take off the promo code.
Hmm. What to do?
I thought for a while and then came up with this: Dreamhost allows you to create your own promo codes, where you specify how much discount the customers get, but the amount goes from your reward money. So, I thought, ok, let’s leave the 888 code up and create my own code that would split the fee 50/50. That was fair, right? After 888 code won’t work anymore, you can still use my code and get 50$ off. Not bad. But then I thought, hmm, why not make this into a practice a bit. 50/50 is comfortable, what about giving a bit more. Hmm… Tightness in my throat… ok,well, I guess I can give you guys 60$ off.
So interesting to see where my limit would be and how tight I can be with money that’s not even mine, which I might never get (since there isn’t much chance of anyone signing up from my blog). Oh, and I can’t cash it anyway since they only use Paypal, I can only use it for hosting fees.
Guess what I ended up doing? Well, use promo code BUDDHA and you’ll see!
Hehe, ok, I’ll tell you - it gives you $97 discount which is all of my reward money. What do I get from it? Well, nothing. Isn’t it great? ![]()
And in case for some weird reason you would WANT to give me some money and you yourself pay MORE for your hosting, use code CLARITY which will give you $50 discount and I get the rest.
he there clarity,
i found your weblog thorugh surfing. I am a shambhala student from rotterdam (22 years old) Holland, i saw a blog about rotterdam, are you from holland as well? Anyway, your blogs are very interesting and you seem to deal with the same stuff as me, maybe we could exchange emails sometimes,
greetings,
Bjarne Timonen
Lhakthong Dawa
Very skillfully done.
You wrote: “(since there isn’t much chance of anyone signing up from my blog)”
I just thought you would like to know I’m using your code. Thank you for posting it.
In keeping with the spirit of this post I will also offer a referral code with the full $97 discount. In the unlikely case that somebody uses my code, you should get some money from DreamHost’s second tier payments, about $5.
You can use the promo code: NotDream
to save $97.
More…
http://promo-code-notdream.dreamhosters.com/
You can use the promo code: NotDream
to save $97.
More…
http://promo-code-notdream.dreamhosters.com/