Maxroam (aka Roam4Free V2)

[Grampa]

The MAXroam rate calculator is apparently now correct. It comes with a major apology from Pat Phelan:

http://www.maxroam.com/comment_on_our_rates.asp

David Pogue has also done some extensive backtracking on his glowing review of last week:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/...ates/#more-363

I for one accept Phelan's statement that the error was not deliberate. I can't imagine a worse way to launch a product. Bottom line, however, is that this card is now a lot less attractive than it appeared to be initially. It really didn't look too good to be true, but I guess it was nevertheless.

[petkow]

Originally Posted by Grampa

David Pogue has also done some extensive backtracking on his glowing review of last week:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/...ates/#more-363

Oh dear! I can't imagine it can get a whole lot worse than that! ("In 20 years... nobody has ever deliberately misled me ..."etc. )

My personal point of view is that this may well eventually become a fairly decent product but I really don't understand why such a grand product launch was made whilst the product is obviously still under construction. This is especially true as this company relies on good PR through blogs and people like David Pogue, rather than expensive advertising budgets! The € vs. $ mistake etc. are understandable (but big) mistakes! However misleading expert columnists.... I'm not too sure about that at all! Ouch!