"SA companies beat internet giant to the pinch"

I don’t see the point in trying to compete with Gmail.com. Google’s mail offers 100x more than the local competitor will ever be able to!

Its like a David and Goliath but this time David has no stones.

I don’t see the point in trying to compete with Gmail.com. Google’s mail offers 100x more than the local competitor will ever be able to!

Its like a David and Goliath but this time David has no stones.

Brilliant opportunism from both companies (Webmail & Gardale) – I reckon we’ll see I nice sell-off of the domain to Google in the near future.

If not so, expect to see the legal guys starting to get involved.

Nonetheless, there’s no way I’ll migrate from Gmail.com to a webmail service.

Lol, I think this is quite funny. How can you even consider building a business around this? Madness…

I just love the “due to numerous requests from users” line. Yeah right, like an accidental visit to a domain squat constitutes a request to provide the service of the company you’re squatting! Beautiful.

I just love the “due to numerous requests from users” line. Yeah right, like an accidental visit to a domain squat constitutes a request to provide the service of the company you’re squatting! Beautiful.

Regardless of how long the domain is owned by Gardale, this is brand piracy. Google has done all the hard work (not to mention the money employed in development) of turning the term “GMAIL” into a phenomenal brand and now they just wanna stroll in and ride the wave.

Not sexy.

I’m just wondering if the headline of this is a deliberate irony or a typo…
Projected outcome: huge copyright battle. Google wins and the birth of Garmail follows out of all the brouhaha.

Do they mean beat to the punch? Or is there some word play going on in reference to the economic downturn that I am not getting?

That Gmail.co.za is so FAIL! they woulda done better to deploy google apps on the domain. Why must South Africas copy and fail… innovate you chops.

That Gmail.co.za is so FAIL! they woulda done better to deploy google apps on the domain. Why must South Africas copy and fail… innovate you chops.

sigh,

this is really lame. Not to mention that its running on the webmail backend which is KAK (from what i remember tons of spam and banner ads everywhere)

I know they owned the domain since before gmail, but if the .de site is anything to go by, at least they have a cool design.

Webmail International should be investigated for bad business practice, lying to clients and customers and breach of contract. After being approached by Webmail and being assured that there was no spamming, fantastic response rates (30%-40%) and examples of the other companies who had great results. I signed up. Since then, they don’t return calls, they are amateur in the extreme, they threaten legal action at every turn and refuse to engage at all. I have since found out that the database that ‘signed’ up to receive direct mail is their own email database. In order to get a free Webmail email address they require huge amounts of personal information. They use this info to spam their own clientele and then charge me for the pleasure!!! The privacy they promise their email clients is a farce. Every time somebody clicks through I get their phone number and their email address. I’m sure they love that! 96% of my direct mailers were deleted without opening! So much for a target market. The response rate has been 0.01% – if I had given away free product to these 69 people I would have saved thousands of Rands. I paid R30k to spam consumers and I am so furious. Webmail must be stopped!!

If you have been scammed by this company please contact me on WebmailSucksBig@gmail.com and let’s stop them once an for all!!!

Webmail International should be investigated for bad business practice, lying to clients and customers and breach of contract. After being approached by Webmail and being assured that there was no spamming, fantastic response rates (30%-40%) and examples of the other companies who had great results. I signed up. Since then, they don’t return calls, they are amateur in the extreme, they threaten legal action at every turn and refuse to engage at all. I have since found out that the database that ‘signed’ up to receive direct mail is their own email database. In order to get a free Webmail email address they require huge amounts of personal information. They use this info to spam their own clientele and then charge me for the pleasure!!! The privacy they promise their email clients is a farce. Every time somebody clicks through I get their phone number and their email address. I’m sure they love that! 96% of my direct mailers were deleted without opening! So much for a target market. The response rate has been 0.01% – if I had given away free product to these 69 people I would have saved thousands of Rands. I paid R30k to spam consumers and I am so furious. Webmail must be stopped!!

If you have been scammed by this company please contact me on WebmailSucksBig@gmail.com and let’s stop them once an for all!!!