Think Gold Internet – Package Review

July 5, 2008

Are you ready to grow your business? Need an effective approach to reach out to more prospects? Now You Can! Start your business website with savings of up to 37%.
by Think Gold Internet (Ed Borhan Pte Ltd)

Limited Offer: 50 Customers

Benefits

Home Biz

Start Up

SME

Domain Name with your own brand (e.g. www.yourshop.com)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Unlimited email accounts (e.g. yourname@yourshop.com)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Training: Update your website yourself with no programming!

Yes

Yes

Yes

Template Conversion: Choose from over 100 open-source designs!

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Yes

Yes

Template Design: Your very own unique design with a touch of class!

>>

>>

Yes

Usual Price

$2,285.00

$3,185.00

$4,935.00

OFFER PRICE

$1,497.00

$2,397.00

$3,297.00

Savings

$788.00 (34%)

$1,070.00 (34%)

$1,820.00 (37%)

SIP PRICE

$49700

$1,39700

$2,29700

500 MB Web Space
(Single Domain)

1000 MB Web Space
(UNLIMITED Domains)

Yearly @ $35/month

$420.00

Yearly @ $65/month

$780.00

Terms and Conditions

  • Offer is exclusive to TGI Intel Alert subscribers only.
  • Upfront payment is required to confirm order.
  • Domain name subject to availability, eligible for SME Domain Name Reservation scheme.
  • Website must be launched within 45 days from date of order.
  • Ed Borhan reserves the right to make changes to the above information without prior notice.

Review

These guys are pretty sleek! They are not actually partnering with any of the 3 IDA-appointed vendors and are not even using the IDA SIP subsidy. Instead, they have come up with a range of Business Website Plans and applied the S$1,000.00 discount of each of the plans!

You could already be excited to receive an automatic S$1,000.00 discount by now! Let’s look at what is up on offer. Their cheapest package is the Home Biz plan which costs S$497.00 after discount. That is a decent price for a basic website. The thing is, usually, such a price stands for a website that consists of less than 10 static pages with barely any cool features.

But the offer seems to be fully loaded; inclusive of domain name, unlimited email address (usually you get 5 to 10 email addresses only) and training to update the website. A quick check on their website shows that the package also gives you unlimited number of pages, updates, users and templates. Gosh, that’s a buffet of unlimited stuff!

Ok, so let’s cool off the hype as we scrutinise the details. You still need to pay for hosting, which comes in 2 options; 500 Mb for a single domain or 1,000 Mb for unlimited domains. Let’s take the cheaper option (500 Mb) and the total cost will be S$917.00.

Although Think Gold Internet isn’t utilising the IDA subsidy, let’s just apply the conditions and subsidy. Based on conditions, the package may not (not sure about this) be eligible as it does not offer broadband services. If we were to apply the subsidies, the cost would be 50% of S$420.00 (hosting) and the balance (S$1,000.00 – S$210.00 = S$790.00) will offset the website plan. This means, you would have had to pay S$917.00; which is their offer price.

Perhaps if broadband was included in the package, you would have to pay slightly above S$400.00 more. Then again, if you are in an office, you would probably already have broadband. And if you are not yet operating in a proper office, you may not need broadband.

Apparently there are only 36 slots left for the offer. You can purchase online at http://thinkgoldinternet.com/LatestNews/tabid/89/Default.aspx

PS: Think Gold Internet seems to be a product of Ed Borhan Pte Ltd (www.edborhan.com)

PPS: They have an interesting SMART payment scheme too with referral commissions to offset instalments.