eMail for dumb millionaires

Ok, so you've dropped some serious green on your Aston Martin Edition Nokia 8800, diamond encrusted iPod nano, and Samsung Q1 and you've still got that mad spending jones -- what to do? How 'bout dropping another few hundie ($399 monthly) on an exclusive millionaires24.com "Upper Class" email address. For that you get such pedestrian features as 512MB of email storage with uh, "unlimited eMail traffic," 1GB file sharing, address book, antispam/antivirus, and just about every other feature (and less) available on your run-o-the-mill, free email service. But if this is the kind of hard posing you need to remember your social status, then have it son, and double-quick 'cause the service is limited to only 10k of your well-heeled peers. Oh, just so you know, that "24" tacked onto the name means, well, nothing apparently. The folks behind the service are just too cheap to buy the domain rights to millionaires.com. 'Nuff said, eh?

[Via Newlaunches]

[SB @ Apr 12th 2006 7:42AM]

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[shawn @ Apr 12th 2006 7:44AM]

this has to be some kind of joke... looking through the site they have fancy graphics and all but there are areas where you can tell corners were cut...

if you actually go into sign up for an account they ask too little information... then send you off their site to make a payment...

[homer @ Apr 12th 2006 7:47AM]

horrible idea. If I were a millionaire I wouldn't send email that says I'm a millionaire.

besides.. the website sucks. No css, just pictures, no metatags? very professional!
I bet some kid did trying to make big money as the millionhomepage's guy.

[Ross C Brown @ Apr 12th 2006 8:10AM]

Hack me! Hack me! Well thats what the site says to me anyway.

So bill gates is no longer bill@micro.... bu is now [e-mail]?

Now, I'm no million-buck man but I have personal domain name for my email. and if I have a big balance, I could buy whatever I wanted!

[charlie @ Apr 12th 2006 8:12AM]

This is the kind of thing where I wonder if they expect to get a single customer.

[Antonio @ Apr 12th 2006 8:13AM]

It would be funny to see who has signed up for this bunk.
[e-mail]? [e-mail]? [e-mail]? hehe

[Mark @ Apr 12th 2006 8:14AM]

The g in MY gmail account stands for gillionaire.

[Dark_Lord @ Apr 12th 2006 8:20AM]

"Just click "Sing up" in the Menu on the website (www.millionaires24.com)."

Singing Millionaires?

http://www.millionaires24.com/webmail/index.php?action=faq

[Alex @ Apr 12th 2006 8:29AM]

Those graphics are so tacky. Infact, the whole site just makes me cringe. Plus what kind of millionaire wants their email and precious information handled by some unknown third party! Only the most crass and neuveau of millioaires need apply!

[Clay @ Apr 12th 2006 8:51AM]

Now this one is one classy e-mail service!

Sign me up!

[Alex @ Apr 12th 2006 8:52AM]

Why not just get your own dedicated server, if youre a millionaire?

[Ian Jardine @ Apr 12th 2006 8:57AM]

Gotta say it's a brilliant money making idea.

I am thinking of a new email service called [e-mail]. I will sell it for $50.00 p.m. and limit it to only 100,000 people.

[aloejuice @ Apr 12th 2006 9:06AM]

quick someone register billionaires360.com !!! charge 999.99 a month! limited to 5,000 customers! PARIS HILTON will be the spokesperson! fyi: oprah is our inaugural member

[yuppicide @ Apr 12th 2006 9:09AM]

This is a bad idea and I don't like Engadget posting it here. It's only giving them publicity, something we don't want to do. We want them to fail, not help them succeed.

[Zob @ Apr 12th 2006 9:23AM]

Lol I already tried to register Billionaires69.com. This is the single worst idea that I have ever heard of.

[Steve @ Apr 12th 2006 9:25AM]

Hmm.. I should reply to all those Nigerian princes with this article - these guys should have the coin to help them out. :-)

[Alexandre @ Apr 12th 2006 9:56AM]

hum...

399usd per month?! It's a joke?

and it's not a secure mail program? :/

But the good thing is that we can see the stats here :D

http://www.webstats4u.com/stats?ADyfpgDKuWfszRm6k2I8BH+zPcZA

[doug @ Apr 12th 2006 9:57AM]

if these guys just trick a few people into signing up they would have a pretty nice income for just setting up some ugly ass webmail. How much could it cost to keep the site running, (I'm guessing less than $399/month)

[ede @ Apr 12th 2006 10:01AM]

Sure, it's utterly ridiculous and amateur, but there is something clever about it: it's extremely close to being a pure status symbol. Whereas diamonds and Astons have actual value, the only function of this "product" is to show that one has money to waste on it. The site is certainly not shy about advertising that fact. In fact, it doesn't really even matter if it's a joke - until I start getting spam from [e-mail].

[Lee @ Apr 12th 2006 10:10AM]

One of the great things about their site is that they took the time to not bother spell-checking anything.

You click the ever-hilarious "Start Website" button on the front page & you're presented with this gem -- "Worlds Upper Class eMail Account".

Ha ha... "Worlds"... Now, I know there are tons of actually dumb millionaires in the US; that Hilton person was mentioned earlier... so she might go for this... but, indeed, why not just buy your own damned server as was mentioned in a earlier post? At least you could hire an admin person who knows how to SPELL.

Does anyone find it in the least interesting that their IP Address - 85.214.47.93 - is in Germany? The whole thing smells a touch fishy. So... no thanks, I'll take a GMail account, with its free 2+Gb of storage.

[JC @ Apr 12th 2006 10:17AM]

My site is better, www.millionaires25.com, and I only charge $299 a month.

Also, 1 whole gigabyte of storage space? You mean, I would rather deal with bandwidth bottlenecks, unsecured connections instead of carrying a USB drive?

Bah.

[Lee @ Apr 12th 2006 10:20AM]

Okay... some uber-rich asshats would actually sign up for this. Just because they can. Nobody ever said you had to be smart to be rich.

I think I want to start my own site too -- stupidrichpeopleemailfromhell666.com

[Josh @ Apr 12th 2006 10:29AM]

Well, at least they have a cool spinning graphic at the top of the page. That has to be worth the $399 a month along.

[Damian @ Apr 12th 2006 10:30AM]

I'd go with cheapskate.com instead, but someone seems to have registered that one already... :)

[teo @ Apr 12th 2006 10:46AM]

24 is their break even point on the development of the site and email service. They need to sell just 24 email accounts to some dumb millionaires to not lose money.

[mike @ Apr 12th 2006 10:56AM]

This is a great idea if you look at it from the owner's pov. Cheap site, expensive 'sing' up cost. That cracks me up!! But if they do get members it's business at it's finest.

[Chris D @ Apr 12th 2006 11:00AM]

I love that the site has pop-up ads. Very high class service.

[Henry Tavarez @ Apr 12th 2006 11:02AM]

It's so funny. All of you are sitting here trashing this site. Who cares if the site is not professionally with CSS and metatags, or if you think the graphics are tacky, or if the features are inferior to free email accounts.

I actually think its a great idea. Someone had a business concept and actually tried to execute it while most of you sit on your lazy butts criticizing it. I'm sure it was one guy that had the idea to register a domain name that may appeal to affluent people who have way too much money too spend and setup a basic email program. He's offering only 10,000 accounts but the truth of the matter is if he even gets just 10 people he's making quite a bit of cash per month and I applaud him. Why not exploit all the rich people out there if you have the means to do it? Its the capatalist way!

hmmmmmm...I'm a web developer. I wonder what i can come up with to squeeze some money out of these rich people.

[akuig @ Feb 9th 2009 10:58PM]

I am in Papua New Guinea and I am looking for funds to start up income generating activity. I need assistance

[Lee @ Apr 12th 2006 11:13AM]

Oh Henry... that's what is done here; much criticizing. Didn't you know this?
And it IS a ripoff, by the way... not that I really care who tries to basically take money from rich folks for a nothing service... they can burn their money if they please.
But you... you show up like a sarcastic angel from above and chastize us all, as a bunch of "lazy" people... tsk tsk.
Admit it, their website is pure crap. It's almost "as crap" as Strong Bad's old Compy 386.

[Andy @ Apr 12th 2006 11:14AM]

You've really sold that to me, where do I sign up?

[Shane @ Apr 12th 2006 11:19AM]

Okay, I've just registered millionaire25.com, and I'll sell you any available email address for $200 per month. Also, you get all the features of gmail, to which you'll be automatically redirected. How does that sound?

[Lee @ Apr 12th 2006 11:24AM]

Sweet... pop-up ads. But are they tailored to rich folks? Maybe pop-ups from yacht manufacturers or pop-ups from Custom Cups --> http://www.customcups.net/pimpcups.html
Bling Bling, indeed. You could check your overpriced email while sipping bubbly from your $80 pimp cup... Snoop would be jealous.

I'm going to go vomit now. ;)

[Hardcore @ Apr 12th 2006 11:29AM]

This guy is a real genius! Set up some website that you know sites like this will link to and thousands of people will visit and sit back and reap the ad money from all the clicks. We're the suckers here.

[Dhiram @ Apr 12th 2006 11:58AM]

He must have spend less that $ 399 designing the website. Too bad.

[Matt M @ Apr 12th 2006 12:11PM]

I refuse to click on this website on the grounds that i don't want to give this guy any more traffic for such a stupid thing. Pygmailion advertising is effective yes, but on the same respect i liken it to a bum trying to get money from me at an intersection.

[Michael @ Apr 12th 2006 12:16PM]

I counted at least a dozen typos in the short release on newslaunches.com. Is Millionaires24.com run by 5th graders? Also, the big round login thing looks like the gas cap cover plate on a Nissan sports car. High "Klass" for sure.

[hydrogen_wv @ Apr 12th 2006 12:23PM]

Not any worse than people buying bottled water...

[creamedcow @ Apr 12th 2006 12:32PM]

I don't know any millionaires that got there by dumping money.

I notice they didn't register the common typos of "millionaires." So one could buy millionNaires24.com,and set up a catch-all email addy... Why? it's what bored millionaires do. :P

[Jeffrey M Foster @ Apr 12th 2006 1:31PM]

the 24 is what really gets me. oohh man.

and popup ads? i see none, i even turned off my "block popups" pref and still nothing. ...i bet you suckers just have some nasty adware / spyware on your box popping up ads randomly. :P

[Bravomedic @ Apr 12th 2006 2:06PM]

Wow, if I had an email account that had an "@millionaires24.com" tag on it I could not show my face in public. How stupid can you get?

http://bravomedic.blogspot.com

[J @ Apr 12th 2006 3:01PM]

A company that uses the free 'webstats4u.com' to monitor traffic? Yeah... ok.....

[Brian @ Apr 12th 2006 3:33PM]

the best part is, they require an alternate email address in case you lose your password. um, if you already have an email somewhere else .. .. then . .. why . .. . . . ..

[The Truth @ Apr 12th 2006 3:33PM]

All I know is, if some American "millionaire" does decide to sign up. He'll be making some crafty web designer a millionaire in his own third world country.

[g3RC4n @ Apr 12th 2006 5:31PM]

ha, it's not even a decent amount of email storage

you should be getting like a terabyte webstorage for $200 a month

[Mohammed Waseem @ Apr 12th 2006 5:39PM]

I should be signing up for it, but on the account of all you haters - I changed my mind. I'm going to get Billy and Jobsie get one mail each and probably, the site has an offer like sign up for 2 and get 1 free and I'd birthday gift it to any one of you who gets me Alienware gamebox* (Multiple entries maximise your chance of winning)

*Conditions Apply!

[Will @ Apr 12th 2006 8:23PM]

Gee, and to think I'm paying $44/yr for a website with unlimited e-mail addresses, 2 gigs of storage and using my own domain name to boot! This is about 10 days too late for April Fools.

[James @ Apr 13th 2006 1:57AM]

Too funny. I think I will stick to g-mail and get more than $400 will get me. Good scam though.

[Chadwick @ Apr 13th 2006 11:42AM]

Can I create an email domain called 'Thousandaire13' and only charge $20 a month?

[Olivier @ Apr 23rd 2006 7:20AM]

Here is a typo squating site:
http://www.milionaires24.com