macZot is for Mac users.
So being a new Mac user and all it’s only fair I take part in Mac based activities. macZot is a little bit different however.
What is macZot?
I’m going to keep it simple: macZot take your money, they multiply it (I believe it has something to do with a blue genie?) and return to you valuable fully licensed software at hugely discounted rates. They do this once per day and only offer a limited quantity for most purchases - so you need to be quick!
Basically you empty your Paypal account (It’s addictive!) by paying say $10 for an application instead of the usual $24.95 for the said application. Your payment is processed and you’ll receive a license key for the application.
These wonderful people do this by cutting deals with OS X software developers. They act as a “middle man” between you and the software vendor organising and negotiating cheaper prices. (Though I’m quite sure most developers are more than happy to offer there services.)
You come out on top getting a cool application for a heavily discounted price.
My Thoughts
Zot your Mac!, you’ll never go back!
My first dealing with macZot was the day they gave away AppZapper for free (Yes, FREE, no $12.95 price tag). Straight after requesting my license key I received it in my inbox. Okay - so it didn’t cost me a sent so it doesn’t really count.
My first real purchase through macZot was the delivery of Sudoku Companion. It cost me $5.00 instead of the usual $9.00. Payment was processe and I received my license key. I’d never actually played Sudoku before and now I’m hooked!
Trusting macZot wasn’t really an issue - I noticed how many people were extremely happy with the service and actively using it to receive discounted software so I gave it a stab and now I’m a happy customer too.
My name is Chris, and I’m addicted to Sudoku thanks to macZot.
Plea to OS X Developers
Dear little Mac developer,
Do you want more money? Perhaps to spend on luxuries like another Mac for the office? I’m sure you’ve realised by now money doesn’t grow on trees. (Don’t worry, I was as shocked as you when I found out)
macZot is a fairly new service which basically sells your application at a discounted rate to a huge Mac user base.
Users purchase your application through macZot and are sent valid license information through it. You then receive $$$$ from purchases of your application (with a tad going to macZot) - which as a result also gains wider exposure.
Will somebody please think of the money?!
You should really consider offering your services - think of all of those grateful Mac fan boys and those jealous Windows girls!
P.S: macZot are running a competition with over $80 worth of prizes (savings! ching! ching!). But of course, this post wouldn’t have anything to do with that. But just in case, I’m entering in 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6.
Comments
MacZOT! (April 8th, 2006, 12:40 am)
Great stuff!
Small correction in Plea: …discounted rate (with all profit going to you) to…
That’s not true.
Thanks for the Entry
Chris Boulton (April 8th, 2006, 12:44 am)
Hmm. Bugger! Fixed it up.
Cheers MacZot! Interesting competition too
Zac (April 8th, 2006, 1:49 am)
Yeah, macZot! is fantastic.
A brilliant marketing idea which applies perfectly to the Mac shareware market. The mystery zots and regular zots are always generous and at the end of the day you have a lot of ecstatic consumers and even more ecstatic developers.
One correction to the post though: the developers do not get the full profits from the dicounted version of their software - (naturally) the folks at macZot takes a well earned piece of the pie.