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WinCustomize Subscription Drive Begins

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WinCustomize Subscription Drive Begins

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WinCustomize.com is having a subscription drive. From September 30 to October 31 we are hoping to gain 2,000 new or renewed WinCustomize subscriptions. 

Stardock has hired long-time skinner Mike Bryant who is going to work on creating at least one (probably two) premium suites that will be just for WinCustomize subscribers.  In addition, WishX has been brought on board to help better coordinate efforts between the site development team and the volunteer moderators and administrators so that new features, changes, and bug fixes can be done even faster. 

On top of that, monthly visitors have increased from an average of 14 million at the start of the year to over 22 million now.  Those extra millions of users mean more bandwidth and more servers which is very expensive when you're at that level.

IF we make the 2,000 subscription goal we will also commit to adding some specific new features such as:

  1. Subscribers will be able to select their own "skin" for the site.
  2. An extra premium suite for subscribers
  3. Lots of additional new features for personal pages
  4. RSS feeds for select galleries

Presently, a WinCustomize subscription provides:

  • No Ads on site
  • Two Premium skin suites
  • The WinCustomize Browser
  • Unlimited Downloads
  • A WinCustomize Personal page with your name as part of the domain
  • A Personal photo gallery to upload images to.
  • And various minor features with more being added regularly.

A WinCustomize subscription costs $19.95 for an entire year.  Renewals cost $19.95 for an additional two-years.  We will be keeping you up to date on the status of the subscription drive.  In order to make 2,000 subscription we have to sell over 60 subscriptions per day.

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LOOK I AM HAVING A BIG PROBLEM TRYING TO RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION!

I entered my code into the box to renew and it takes me to another page where I click on the check out button. The next page brings up my personal information and billing information; when I hit submit at the bottom of the page it takes me to another page with not only my renewal but an additional WC subscription!! For a total of $39.90 and it won't let me delete the additional subscription.

I've written Stardock for a week. Today I get an email stating they have no record of me renewing my subscription to kindly resubmit the order. OF COURSE THEY HAVE NO RECORD BECAUSE THE TOTAL CAME TO $39.90 AND I DID NOT PUT IN MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER BECAUSE I COULD NOT DELTE THE EXTRA SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!

I tried calling Stardock and all I get is a recording. Will someone please help me? All I want to do is renew my subscription. I tried again today and when I went to hit the final checkout button again it came up AGAIN with two subscriptions instead of one!!!!

Since Stardock obviously reads these because they answered one of the other users I hope they see this; or answer my emails without a canned response or respond to my phone call because I am getting quite upset!
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Glad to join the ranks, subscribed today. I visit Wincustomize daily, so I want to support WC. BTW thanks for the 3 Premium skins including the Halloween one by MikeB
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm renewing my subscription now, although it's not due until January sometime. I use my computer as entertainment. I love being able to change skins and cursors to match whatever Webshots photo I'm using at the moment. I have neither the time nor the patience to make my own skins and I have great admiration for those who can and are also willing to share them with people like me. I look at my Wincustomize subscription as a whole year's worth of entertainment for the price of one evening out. Dinner and a movie? I'd rather trade that three hours of entertainment for a year of access to all the great stuff here and since I'm renewing that's actually two years of access! I hope more people will view it the same way so the site can continue to entertain not only me, but others as well.
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Speaking from personal experience...
I first discovered this site about 18 months ago, totally fell in love with it then began purchasing their programs; Object Desktop, WinCustomise Subscription, Cursor XP Plus, ObjectDock Plus, Natural Desktop and Orion Icon Suite.

BUT, I have since had many problems with several of the main programs, in particular DesktopX, Natural Desktop (never been able to run without the CPU redlining), ObjectBar, Desktop Gadgets, CursorXP, ObjectDock, even the SmartException program I used to document my problems soon stopped working for no apparent reason?!

Usually I'd wait for the next update to see if that fixed things but to no avail, so then I would contact support for some help. Excuse my expressive language (shouting?) but,
THE SUPPORT SUCKS!
They start out very helpful but before the problems are sorted they stop replying!! Very frustrating, especially for a novice like myself. Then if you keep nagging about a particular problem they reply like it's the first time they heard from you and you have to start from scratch in explaining the whole thing again!

I still visit and use the site as there are some very talented skinners and high quality work to enjoy, BUT I definitely WON'T be wasting anymore of my hard-earned cash on something that's given me so much grief and with no help/support! Maybe I'm not the only one experiencing similiar problems??

Sincerely Frustrated and Disappointed,
Brad Griffin, (mrdarb).
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BTW thanks for the 3 Premium skins including the Halloween one by MikeB


?????????? Where's that ? are the ones who subscribed since years not having right for it ?
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Keep your fingers crossed. I’m trying to come up with the money before the end of the drive. I have an OD subscription. So I may not need a WC subscription, but I want one, mainly to help support WC.
Thanks OD and WC supporters, David Brelo
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the link Night Train
Just wonder why the Halloween WB is not accessible through SDC with the other Wincustomize stuff ???
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
After sponging off of you for all I could get, I sponged 20 bucks off my wife so that I can now sponge even more off of you all. It's great to have a site where people can show off what they truly love to do instead of showing a client what they wanted. Good on ya'll. I barely know how to get my knuckles to type this out so thank you all for your great work.

Semper Fi!!
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Finally bought my subscription and seeing as the whole thing nearly went kaput the $$$ is DEFINITELY well spent.
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have been a member for a few years now but never a paying subscriber...im one of those mooching types that if i have choice between free or not free i choose free and modify my registry entries to keep it that way. I have since recanted when it comes to this website...wow is all i have to say. The level of skill of those of you that design things is amazing...i can't begin to touch that, im still learning that you can erase stuff in microsoft paint thank you wincustomize for providing the forum and i am more than willing to part with my hard earned shekels to support this amazing site, as others have said, it is well WELL worth the pitance!

Keep the faith, keep designing and we will support you for it!
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oops -- I wanted to renew my WinCustomize subscription now instead of next April to help the drive, but I renewed OD too, also early. My wallet may now be empty, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of both of them, and there is so much to learn!
Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I subscribed last week to be sure to get in before the deadline. I downloaded & installed both the browser and tray programs. Now Stardock Central says there are newer versions, I click "Update Now" but it doesn't Any ideas??? I'm not too concerned since they are minor version updates(2.00.021 & 1.30.005), but I figure something might be wrong since it keeps saying I need to update but not updating. At first I thought it might be becasue I hadn't put the Wincustomize subscription number into SD Central, but it doesn't work even after doing that. The programs don't appear on any of the lists (OD, misc, etc.), so I can't manually update either. Thanks much!!
Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The programs don't appear on any of the lists (OD, misc, etc.)


Should say Wincustomize on the left of SDC - if it doesn't, right click in the left column and choose customize, then make sure Wincustomize is checked to show.
Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm the other drop in the bucket: paid for subscription this morning around 11 am. 898.
Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Grey Bird: I had that annoyance with Wincustomize browser wanting to update everytime I opened SDC, and would never update anything. Then I got my subscription and it finally took the update.
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, Sir Bichur, that helped tremendously! When I went to do a manual update, it gave an error on autoarchiving Wincustomize Browser or Wincustomize Tray (couldn't find a file "C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\installed\???.xml") and stated that auto archive failed. It then asked if it should continue, I said yes and it completed successfully. Apparently the update that runs when detecting updates on SDC startup just fails at that point without the error message. I'm guessing the error message is because I installed downloaded WinCustomize and installed it, rather than installing it through SDC.

To Scorpio-logic: Thanks for your answer and your time.
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just bought Object Desktop Net. Ed., but i thought that I could update my WinCustomize account with the OD Stardock account and it would be the same as getting a sub. to WC????? Has anyone heard how to put that info on your WinCustomize account??
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just bought Object Desktop Net. Ed., but i thought that I could update my WinCustomize account with the OD Stardock account and it would be the same as getting a sub. to WC????? Has anyone heard how to put that info on your WinCustomize account??


You need to purchase a SEPARATE subscription to WC. It is not included with your subscription to Object Desktop. What you're doing is just LINKING your OD subscription information to a registered account on WC. But if you want WC subscription privledges, you will have to log into WC and purchase a sub.
DD

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