On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:51 -0000, "Graham." wrote:


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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:14 -0000, "Graham." wrote:


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Anyone knows anything about the sms service "smsbug.com"?

It seems to have gone out of business.
No customer support.
Forum has been removed.
No mail replies for about 4-5 months.

Just had a quick look, it's not cheap is it 4.5p, not sure if that's including VAT,
and even if you give them £220 up front there is no discount.
Also the user names of the "Top Users in last 24 hours" are given out
on the home page, what's *that* all about.

Does this service do stuff that the likes of smslisto.com dosn't?
It's half the price.


It doesn't seem to do anything anymore. We used to try to use their
service for half a year, for company contacts, but it never work
well.

Very often only about 50% of our SMSs reached our clients. We tried to
contact them but we still haven't had any answers to a lot of issues.
Some of them as old as 4 years!

About four months ago we tried the service again, since we still have
credits remaining. Not one single sms reach the receipents. Smsbug
hasn't yet bothered to answer our mails.

The price 4.5p is only for the British site. At the international site
the price is 3 eurocents. I've never manage to figure out the reason
for the discrimination.

There are other services, much more reliable and with working
customers service.

When SWMBO worked from home using this office her boss insisted on installing
"textmagic" on her PC even (I was not consulted)
Just had a look at the website and £17.01 will buy you 200 credits (6.8p)

Mind you, buying your credits in bulk will earn you a discount. If you hand
over £3 grand (who would?) you get 50,000 credits (4.6p)
Did I mention that smslisto.com charge 2.8p and you only need to give them
10.75 Euros at a time.

We are no mainly using fishtext.com instead. It's an old and reliable
service. We are now paying 2 eurocent per messages. Very seldom any
failures.