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Neopets® is the greatest Virtual Pet Site on the Internet. With your help, we have built a community of over 70 million virtual pet owners across the world! Neopets has many things to offer including over 160 games, trading, auctions, greetings, messaging, and much much more. Best of all, it's completely FREE!
There, right from the front page under their banner.
I wouldn't touch this new "premium" service with a 10 foot pole. The ISP they've contracted with, in their TOS, says that they can (and I'm sure will) give (sell?) your information to third parties, who can sell to other third parties, etc., ad nauseum. Plus, I happen to think $35 a month for dial up is kind of expensive, it's at least $12 more a month than most dial up ISP.
The toolbar? I just don't like them. First of all you already have on if you're using an ISP, and many of these toolbars have hidden adware/tracking in them at least.
There is already a scam involving the email service. I lost the petpage someone posted on so I don't remember the pet name, darn it. But this person got an email using the new addy, looked very professional, and it was talking about the Premium service and how this person had been chosen to beta test it, etc. ... ended up being a scam to get their password and other information.
So if they're going to give more "goodies" to people who pay for these services then that is unfair. Not everyone will want to, not everyone will be able to afford it either. The game is kind of unbalanced already, the focus is on marketing, merchandise, etc. This? I thought the glophone was bad
lag, I started getting spam mail, curiously enough, from some of the sponsors (like sony) within days of signing up for the site, so no, I highly doubt that will change. So does my friend, who has her own email (uses my computer). She mentioned getting alot of junk mail so I asked her where she was going on the internet, she said neoitems and neopets. That's it.