Should I Zot or Should I Not?
Posted by Skrud at Thursday, April 6th 2006 at 9:08am
macZOT is a very interesting phenomenon. The site offers an incredible deal on a different piece of Mac software each day. Earlier this week they conducted a really interesting experiment they called BlogZOT, where the price for the daily ZOT (it was AppZapper) was dropped by 5 cents for each trackback. In other words, the more people blogged about it, the cheaper it got. Until finally, it was free!
Today is a MyzteryZOT, and from what I can tell it’s not the first. The offer is for some Mac software that is “Normally $60” dropped to a $15 price tag ($17.43 Canadian). Why am I even considering buying it? I have no idea what this thing might be. What are the chances that I might even already own it? (Actually, they’re pretty slim since I don’t have much non-free software). Even if I buy it, would it be something that I might actually use?
Either way, I have to hand it to macZOT. This is brilliant marketing.
Update: Well, I bought it. I’ll let you know if it was worth it once I know what the hell it is that I got.
Yeah I bought it too, I’m in suspense… :P
I knew I could count on you, Harley!
Yeah, so they extended it by a day. So we’ve got another 24hrs of suspense… :P
Why would you buy something without knowing what it is?
Well that was a letdown in the end… :(
What was it?
All the programs are revealed at http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=44
The only itme I’m interested in is pzizz. What do you think of it?
You know what? I haven’t even tried it. I’m downloading it now and I’ll get back to you on that.
Cool looking forward to it. Esepcially since the main page of MacZot today is focusing on it.