Important Sandbox Announcement (This is Ridiculous)

another email from them... explaining....

The purpose of this email is to address some questions raised by members
about the launch of the new Sandbox Peak Usage Program, scheduled for release
later today. We delivered an email to all Full Contact Fantasy Football members
last week in an attempt to make sure everyone received proper notification of the
program launch prior to the start of the NFL season. For those of you who did
not get a chance to review last week's email, please read the program details on
the following page before reading the remainder of this email.

http://www.sandbox.com/sports/pub-bin/page?sc_forum+ubb/NonCGI/Forum7/HTML/000078.html

Now, on to some of the questions that have been raised by our loyal members:

Reason for Launch:

Sandbox has been and always will be committed to keeping our Full Fantasy games FREE
to play. However, in late August we realized that we were going to
have a very difficult time reaching our revenue projections. Therefore, we needed
to come up with a way in which we could keep the games FREE for all of our loyal
members, but also create an additional revenue source. After reviewing a few different
options, the Peak Usage Program was the only logical choice for us, because not only
did it address some of our major expenses such as computer hardware and bandwidth costs,
but it also was the only option that allowed us to increase revenue to keep the game free.
When we reviewed pricing, it did not seem out of line to ask for 13 cents per day
to access Full Contact when our costs are highest.

Timing of Announcement:

Regarding the timing of the announcement, it was never our intention to "surprise" our
members with this announcement. We did not send out an announcement until last week,
simply because we did not know if the program was viable until last week. We sincerely
apologize for not being able to give you more time to consider how this program affects
your fantasy football season.

Decreased Competition:

Some of our active Full Contact players are nervous that with the execution of this
program will come a large increase in Dead Teams, which destroys some of the fun of
the game by making leagues less competitive. Rest assured that will be making
dead teams available to other Sandbox players as we have in the past in order to
keep all of your leagues competitive and interesting.

Customer Service & Billing Inquiries:

For those of you who choose to sign up for the Peak Usage Program, you will receive
priority customer email service and a special customer service phone number for
Peak Usage billing inquiries. We have also designed a very simple process for you
to cancel your subscription should you choose to discontinue service at any point.

Payment Methods:

We have heard your questions about alternative payment methods and we are currently
exploring the possibility of offering members other ways to make payment
outside of credit card payments.

For additional information on the program and to sign up for the Peak Usage Program,
please log into Full Contact after 6 PM ET today, and click on
"Become A Peak Usage Member" on your Full Contact home page.

Good luck to all this fantasy season and thanks for choosing to play at Sandbox.

Sincerely,

The Commish

 

Make sure to get your lineup set BEFORE 6pm thursday, or your screwed (0 points).

It's looking more and more like we will be yahooing this coming basketball season.

 

This peak usage thing sucks. Right in the middle of trade negotiations, and I must wait till later this afternoon.

 

Move us!

 

I'm drafting in a public yahoo league tonite, can one own multiple yahoo teams? If not a decision needs to be made pronto.

 

Also with the percentage of repeat players we have I wouldn't mind a keeper league n the future.

 

Cool, thanks. What about the keeper league idea?

 

We will have to wait until smeggy awakens from his beauty sleep to make the move.

Maybe we could take a vote on the keeper league thing.

I kinda like starting from scratch every year.

 

I wouldn't mind trying out a keeper league, but aside from the "traditional" one.

I would like a switch to yahoo as well.

Sandbox bites.

 

Uh guys, the season starts tommorrow. When will Smeg be on?

 

smeg should be getting online within the hour.

Like Castor said, anyone who is not registered at Yahoo please do so.

 

Here is the link to Yahoo fantasy football:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/football/frules/frules-10.html

All the info about how it works can be found here

 

I have an account, but I have not created a team.

I think this may be tuff to pull off. We'll see what happens.

 

I am here now, i have yahoo registration

shall we try

fade can you post the setting for scoring

stay around guys and i will let you know how it goes and you guys can talk me through, anyone have an idea what will be the quickest way to set the rosters??

Smeg