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MP3Sale have set-up an interesting Valentine’s Day Promotion.

As always with MP3Sale there is no deadline date, but will most likely last for the next couple of days.

Make a gift for your friends!
Add to your account €20, €30 or €50 with cards and get special Bonus code for 220, 330 or 550 FREE DOWNLOADS that you can send to your friend as a gift.

See Promotion Details

It is known that MP3Fiesta has been out of action for a long time. Ignoring customer support emails and failing to sort out their billing system has resulted in rendering their business useless. It was only time before their (free) weekly credit-hand-outs would wear thin.
What happened to AllOfMP3 when it was forced to convert itself to MP3Sparks, due to mounting legal pressure is now happening to MP3Fiesta. With billing disabled and sign-ups redirected to MP3Panda.com, MP3Panda could possibly be the new MP3Fiesta.

MP3Fiesta is a very popular website (ranked 4934 by Alexa) and with popularity comes unwanted interest from music companies and organizations, for example RIAA and IFPI. If anything infringes  their business, will do all they can to take you down. Since MP3Fiesta is hosted in a different country taking it to court would be a very tedious and long winded affair, so the other option would be to attack the payment processors. Knocking down the payment processors would make the business useless as customers would be unable to refill their accounts and purchase music. As most credit/debit cards are owned by American firms and most people have one, big corporate bullying from the music organizations would most likely force payment merchants into taking transactions offline. It only takes a matter of time before the domain is blacklisted against all banks. This is what happened to AllOfMP3 and their solution was to simply move to another domain.

MP3Fiesta has not had a good reputation for good business etiquette; stories posted from Aom3.org members give you an idea what it’s like when things go bad when you’re an MP3Fiesta customer. For the past two months the MP3Fiesta financial aspect has been struggling. With very low balances and continuing pressure from IFPI hunters, it has made it impossible for MP3Fiesta to recover from such a dire point in business. Ditching its valuable domain, partners, branding, customer loyalty and taking their internal forum offline to keep matters inside, we will now most likely see the disappearance of a popular drm-free music shop, MP3Fiesta and see how it plans to keep MP3Panda alive through 2009.

The Great Black Friday Week MP3Sale Offer Has Started!

For only a week starting today, MP3Sale will be giving 100% bonus on all refills.

For e.g.
€20 (+ €20 FREE)
€30 (+ €30 FREE)
€50 (+ €50 FREE)

These are the times to stock up on credit, as you can save a killing.

This link will take you direct to the ‘Add to balance’ page: http://www.aom3.org/mp3sale

Enjoy!

It seems SoundsBox has a lot of new workings going on under the hood and have kept it nicely quiet. No confirmed details are released, but it seems a new SoundsBox site and service is currently in development stages. To confirm the rumors, an email was sent out from SoundsBox to its users regarding a new subscription payment plan.

Hello,

Reason for contacting you is that at some point you were interested in Soundsbox service and you did registed account with us.

We are starting new program that could give you min $20/month with minimum effort of less than 2min, 3 times per week. For people that take this seriously free credit amount will be raised.

Number of members will be limited.

If you’re interested and want to know more about this simply reply to this message or send e-mail to admin@soundsbox.com.

For all people interested new e-mail explaining their “work” will be sent in 2 days.

If you’re not interested in this simple ignore this message and you wont be contacted again

Soundsbox team

[SoundsBox]

While I have a love-hate relationship with MP3Fiesta, they seem to continously pushing the boundry with me. And recently I have decided to temporariliy stop using them altogether and give my money to a different a shop. The lack of support and poor payment method are the main factors for MP3Fiesta losing me as a customer. If you have any problems refilling your account for whatever reason at any shop, be sure to check out this thread at aom3, where members (including myself) have recommended music shops based on their payment method record and it’s a good little find, for people who regularly use these shops.

As taken from this aom3 thread, here are this months music shop bonus offers.

MP3Fiesta.com
Recommend-a-friend referral scheme. Get a friend to sign up an account via your url and you will get a $50 bonus on your own balance. Click here.

$100 USD + 25% Bonus ($25 For Free)
$50 USD + 20% Bonus ($10 For Free)
$40 USD + 15% Bonus ($6 For Free)
$30 USD + 10% Bonus ($3 For Free)

MP3sale.ru
€30 (+ €10 FREE)
€50 (+ €50 FREE)
€100 (+ €50 FREE)

MusicMP3.ru (e-gold)
€29.9 + 10% Bonus (€3 FOR FREE)
€39.9 + 15% Bonus (€6 FOR FREE)
€49.9 + 20% Bonus (€10 FOR FREE)

MP3skyline.com / MP3xclusive.com
$45 USD + 33% Bonus ($15 For Free)
$35 USD + 15% Bonus ($5 For Free)

GoMusic.ru
75 USD +10% bonus
90 USD +15% bonus
120 USD +20% bonus

Legalsounds
USD $39 and get 50 free songs
USD $50 and get 80 free songs
USD $100 and get 200 free songs

I needed a change from the usual sluggish-web-based message support system that a lot of music shops offer (no need to mention names) and decided to request my music from MP3sale, as they didn’t initially have what I wanted. Posted on their music request forum and got the answer and the music I wanted within 24 hours. Exactly what customer service should be.

Within this time where anyone can start an online music shop (as long as it is in the right country), it seems basic business practice is being forgotten or simply thrown out the window due to laziness. While customer service maybe the most tedious and demanding area of running a shop, it also your No.1 tool to in getting those 1-time-customers coming back to your site. So I will take this time in saying ‘well-done’ to MP3Sale.

[MP3sale]

As what could be a new change that all shops might follow, MusicMP3 is the latest sheep, silently converted their prices to Euros a few days ago.

As confirmed by a moderator at Aom3, MusicMP3 didn’t follow MP3Fiesta’s awful decision to also convert users balances as well, keeping it nicely relative with the new change in music prices.

[MusicMP3]

MP3SkyLine has so far, had a calm and solid recovery to near 100% functional service. Reception has been very good and I don’t think MP3SkyLine could ask for anything more. Their free credit give-away to aom3’s mailing list readers was one of the smoothest and most successful give-aways, with a 99% success rate. So its now time to rate MP3SkyLine on their recovery process, do you think MP3SkyLine is stable enough and worth to recommend to a friend or family? Vote here:

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[MP3SkyLine]

As MP3SkyLine continue on their road to full service functionality, they are pulling all the stops along the way to entice people back to buying music from them. It shouldn’t be too hard for MP3SkyLine, as with an impressive music catelogue and well designed music interface, any extras will only further boost their recovery road back to the top.

And one of those extra stops is giving away free music credit. Although details are not yet finalised, it is confirmed that MP3SkyLine will be giving away free music credit to the Aom3 Freebie Mailing List readers.

So make sure your signed up with MP3SkyLine and the Aom3 Freebie Mailing List.