Quote Originally Posted by Kinepolis View Post
Me too, I had most of my files already set as premium. The few free ones were intended to let people "test" filemates. In order to protect my users, all files are set to premium now. I really wonder if no "testfiles" will lead to more sales, I doubt it + I had to give my users an explanation why I suddenly made all my files premium. In other words, I had to had to tell them about the viruses and malware. Very good publicity indeed

The same for me, now I have to apply the ( Premium All ) on the whole files, even for the small files which I used to leaving it free for users to test the quality of the rest of files, but now my downloaders cannot test anything because I prefer to apply ( Premium All ) for all files, on letting any of my downloader seeing that tool what probably give him a bad point about Filemates! , but also if I did it won't be enough useful, because my downloader might watch that tool when downloading the files from other uploaders, then his bad point about Filemates will include all filemates's files, regardless of the website he downloading the filemates's files from, or if the file was for premium only or for all.

Quote Originally Posted by filemates View Post
well all you guys... about virus alarm in most cases if not all cases are false alarms... it is just the signature of the exe file that comes from a widely used cloud service that creates this problem... any way...
Sorry mates, even if it was 100% clean, the normal downloaders won't realize that !

Quote Originally Posted by filemates View Post
about sales... who will buy if he sees this stupid tool? well we see sales increase... if this continues we will go on with this tool... users get afraid of using this tool and prefer buy premium... so this is good for filemates...
So do you want us to go back to 200MB limit? no problem... but still for those free (less than 200MB) downloads will pass through the tool...
And do you have a statistic of how many users used that download manager tool to get the files !? ... I just can expect it's too little, and as long as the target of that tool is not in itself, but to increase the rate of premium sales, then There are really an alternative ways to make both of us happy.

Even if the limit was now 1 Gb, I guess very few free users would download the files from filemates if the file was really especial and there was no alternative links of it in the other hosts, but if the file wasn't especial and there were a lot of alternative links of it in the other hosts, many free users will run away from filemates, if we suppose that there will still uploaders that didn't apply ( premium all ) for all of their files soon or later as long as this ugly tool is here. I can say from my experience when I was a normal downloader, I was always think badly about the file hosts that force users to download its tools before getting any file from it, and it was a doubtful web sites for me, not just because the possible danger of trojans and spywares of its tools, but also because I was always hate to have a strange tools in my pc, especially those of Ads, which confusing you with toolbars and ads windows. I was ready to reformat my pc just to get rid of it ! ... And if I return back as a normal downloader now I won't change that, and won't accept strange download tools in my pc whatever the file I want is important and especial.

If you insist to keep this tool I suggest instead and to abbreviate the time to make the premium membership is a condition to download any file, I know that is the final target behind that tool, because soon or later I think most of us ( if not all ) will discover that we're forced to apply ( premium all ) for all of our files, to prevent any of our downloaders to even see that tool and then he change his mind about filemates which will reduce our sales of course.

But for example if you raise the rate of commission for sales to ( 70% ), and apply a policy of premium membership to download any of files, it will really make all uploaders more enthusiastic to apply to keep uploading, and I think you won't lose any uploader, beside the rate of premium sales will be increasing, and of course the download manager tool will be completely useless in that case, and in the end we both will be happy and satisfied.

It's just a suggestion because that tool didn't leave much solutions to dealing with.