We are trying out the new "Gift An App" feature in iTunes. As soon as we collect 1,000 email addresses we'll gift Catacombs to everyone. Tell all of your friends! The sooner we fill our newsletter, the sooner you guys will get your copy of Catacombs!!!! Brian Howard InMotion Software
Interesting. Seems like an expensive proposition, though. Sure, youll be getting 70% of your money back. But itll still cost you almost $300 to gift it to everybody. And my condolences to the guy who has to key that in a thousand times.
do you have to subscribe w/ your itunes email? and Rblacula best hide that email, some bots or naughty ppl may spam you
Doesn't it cost money each time you gift an app? Unless the devs see "Free" instead of $0.99, you'd theoretically be buying it from yourself and only seeing 70% of the revenues due to paying Apple's share.
signed up for the newsletter ! is that all you have to do??? also, if i use an email different from my itunes account email: does that make a difference?
It costs money cause it's the same as if I gifted you an app personally. The interesting thing is that they are gifting 1000 copies (assuming they didn't use the fifty promos from the update) but getting 70% back. So in the end they got 1000 people to sign up to their newsletter for only 200 dollars. Not only that but it's still unclear if those gifts actually counts towards the sales rankings. Then they're sure to get positive reviews if the update is as good as I hear it is which only adds to the benefits. I think this is a FANTASTIC idea and I hope other devs try this method and see how it improves their sales/ratings/rankings
