Cant use site anymore

It's still free. You couldn't have hit your 100 meg cap yet.

It's 50 meq now.

From the FAQ

Why can't I download more than 50MB of stuff from here?

As WinCustomize has become more and more popular the
number of downloads that occur daily has risen dramatically. This has
caused a significant increase in Bandwidth costs for the site. And
bandwidth usage continues to rise. In an attempt to recover some of this
cost we began selling some merchandise on WinCustomize. But the amount of
merchandise being sold still did not even come close to paying for the
bandwidth costs let alone the rest of the operating costs that are incurred.
Then we began offering Subscriptions with additional benefits as way for
patrons of WinCustomize to help offset those costs even more. However, this
still was not covering the bandwidth costs. So what do we do next? We
either need to increase sales or decrease bandwidth? So the next step we
tried was to do both by putting a cap on they amount of data you can
download from WinCustomize for NON-PAYING visitors. If you have purchased
'Any Product' from Stardock or WinCustomize or if you have purchased a
WinCustomize Subscription you are provided with the benefit of Unlimited
Downloads. We encourage people to try before they buy. That is why all
Stardock Software is available as shareware. To try out all the software
you will want to download skins from WinCustomize so we need to make
downloads available for free. But we also need to place a limit on
downloads to help control the Bandwidth costs. So how much should we allow.
We ran some queries and decided that most people had downloaded less that
25MB's from WinCustomize. So realistically 25MB's is what most people would
need to try out our software. But we did not want to push people away from
WinCustomize either. So we decided to be generous and set the cap fairly
high. We decided on 50MB. Once you have downloaded 50MB you are
requested to purchase a subscription to WinCustomize or at least purchase
the Product in which you are using the skins with.


WOM... it's 50MB now.
m4ch1n3g0d - If the only reason you come here, is for SysMetrix skins, there are other sites........... I'm not saying go away, just saying, you have options.

50 megs, when did it change GM? Is it posted somewhere?

sounds fare to me

I dont think that is fair at all. Yeah, there are other sites, and this site has turned into a whore!! Fine, i wont use this site anymore. Goodbye!!

m4ch1n3g0d, If I could Id give you my unlimited amount of dl ing (Lord knows I don't use it)! But I can't...... sorry


Hi Everyone

machinegod again, no problem, im not a moron! Ah well, i still dont feel like using this site, even under a different name, gona go find other sites to use. Probably some better ones out there anyways.

Good luck

Hi China!!

Hi Randy! Good to see your friendly face again! How you be?

I be good! How are you doing?

I be gooood too

heh

i don't know of a better site than this one
this ones tops with me

Trying to figure out how ya did that, China

https://www.wincustomize.com/images/smiles/china.gif

Let's see if that works

Nope...guessed wrong...just ignore me

YOU OWE ME, WORLD. I WANT THINGS FOR FREE FOREVER. I DON'T CARE IF THIS IS THE LARGEST AND BEST REPOSITORY OF SKINS, AND I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO FEED SKINS TO THE THOUSANDS OF FREELOADERS LIKE MYSELF WHO DOWNLOAD THINGS FOR MY WAREZED VERSIONS OF STARDOCK PRODUCTS.

SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME.

(The previous words were sarcasm, in case you didn't recognize them. If you are offended, odds are you're a leech and you are probably also stealing software. Bite me. In a friendly way. )

What! What did I do now?

WOM it was posted somewhere in here...https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=95770#96287 I think Frogboy posted it.

Bloody trolls ....

"#18 by Skinner stark23x - 1/26/2003 1:04:02 AM
YOU OWE ME, WORLD. I WANT THINGS FOR FREE FOREVER. I DON'T CARE IF THIS IS THE LARGEST AND BEST REPOSITORY OF SKINS, AND I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO FEED SKINS TO THE THOUSANDS OF FREELOADERS LIKE MYSELF WHO DOWNLOAD THINGS FOR MY WAREZED VERSIONS OF STARDOCK PRODUCTS.

SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME.

(The previous words were sarcasm, in case you didn't recognize them. If you are offended, odds are you're a leech and you are probably also stealing software. Bite me. In a friendly way. )"


And how many p2p file sharing programs do you use on a regular basis? How many newsgroups do you visit each week? Im a firm believer that software should be free, and along with it its source code. Im anti-corporate, and damn proud. Im poor, im young, i dont have money to pay to download stuff from this site, and if i did have the money, i have better things to do with it like buy books on programming, take some college courses, learn to create what i normally download from this site. I dont do anything for a cash profite and i think its sad that this site wants everyone to pay now. I go to work each day and pay my bills, i dont steal, and i dont expect to be handed anything in life.

this is a post I just put into another message board... I am reposting it and changing the names to piss off the guilty:

your opinion doesn't matter m4ch1n3g0d , if you had a real one then it might, no one is getting rich off of this site, you superficial wanabee. The artists who make this their home get all of fame from this site, then the free beer crowd like you and your welfare collecting A$# come along and spoil the fun for everybody. We don't expect you to spend money here, we just expect you to give credit where it is due, as for the band width limitations of this site it all can be attributed to leeches like you who take all they can and never give anything back, so if you want something to suck, me and all of the artists here have alot for you to suck on!

no offense meant by the last post to anyone on this site who has contributed in anyway... this includes people who post positve comments on the message boards, skinners, polite visitors, people named jafo, and anyone who collects welfare because they need it for the sake of getting their foot in the door (if I needed it I would take it, it's not a hand out, it's taxes that we all we pay, and deserve to get back when we need it)

one more comment is $20 so much money??? I have 20 bucks, I'd rather donate it to something I believe in than waste it on sodas and fast food, cause that is what we all do when we have an extra $20... I've bought the following from Stardock, Window blinds, IconPackager, a year later I upgraded to object desktop, I donated to Mormegil to get his Icon selection going, then after that I helped him out some more, bought his orion icon set, I didn't need it... I had all of his other awesome sets, but I did it cause I like him, and what he does...and now that my object desktop subscription is up for the second time what am I gonna do, get rid of heck no... im gonna renew it not only because I want to help the skinners, because I am a bigger fan of the software now, more than ever I love this site, and I will defend anyone that believes in it... so fork over 20 bucks, or download your 50 megs and go home... we won't miss you, but we'd much rather have you here....