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It was $500. Here's an archive of their site: http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdri...

>One-time payment of $499

>We're pleased to announce a special offer that combines three great products in our family — TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent — available for a one-time payment of just $499.

>What do you get?

>TextDrive's spectacularly feature-rich web, mail and data hosting; oceans of backup room at Strongspace; early access to the future of web-based organization, communication and productivity through the Joyent suite of interconnected applications. Perfect for a smart small business or smart individuals of any size.

>How long is it good for?

>As long as we exist.



From the TOU (also at archive.org, linked from the above document): dispute is to be resolved by arbitration. More suckage.


First, arbitration clauses aren't always enforceable. Suing for the $250 allowed would still be a nuisance.


True. You'd have sue and first get the arbitration clause revoked. My understanding is that courts are getting more amenable to this.

Dittos restrictions on class actions.

My policy is that I will generally reject arbitration / class action limitations and/or take my business elsewhere.

Of course, it's always possible that the arbitrator would find for the claimant, but such clauses usually (didn't check here) disallow class actions, and arbitrators are historically biased toward the entity requiring their services (e.g.: Joyent in this case).


Nothing here specifically disallowing a class action.




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