Thunder News
Your team continues to perform well even as you have expanded the team. Support techs listen well to feedback and have improved in their support skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers. Thanks for the great startup on 24x7 support! You quickly assembled a quality team to begin implementing support for our website. Initial response surveys have shown your team is performing well. Thanks for a smooth transition.
Nick Walker
Palmetto Online Ventures LLC
http://www.thundernews.com/
Anderson, SC
Project Brief
Thundernews is one of the leading providers for fast uncensored Usenet. ThunderNews services stand toe to toe with other top Usenet providers. Thundernews offers quality Usenet services with over 910 days of binary retention and nearly 4 years of text posts.
With binary retention over 910 days, 1,265 days text retention, 256 bit SSL available in the US and Europe, payment options including WordPay and PayPal, and free News Rover newsreader you might think Thundernews would price themselves out of the market. Instead they concentrate on service rather than advertising and the results show.
Objectives
- Secure - free SSL encryption
- Free online storage
- Pricing
- Free Trial
- Coupons
- Affiliate Discounts
- Check out Process
- $10.49 Unlimited Deal
- 910 days binary retention
- 1,265 days text retention
- 99%+ completion rate
- 50 concurrent connections
- Free News Rover newsreader
- Servers in US and Europe
- 24/7 customer support
- Download speed - excellent
- Anonymous downloading and posting
- Uncensored newsgroup access
- SSL Encryption
What we did
Pricing: Thundernews has almost 30 different plan types ranging from seven to nineteen dollars. Also Thundernews offers a significant discount for prepaying. Finally Thundernews has a variety of payment options such as Worldpay, Paypal and debit card in addition to credit card payment. This service has been implemented by Harvest.
Free Trial: A request a three day free , 1 GB free trial by clicking on the support link at the bottom of their homepage, has been implemented by Harvest.
Coupons:Readers of UsenetReviewz.com can realize an exclusive LIFETIME 25% discount with the code tn25urz. That’s TN for ThunderNews 25 for the discount and URZ for UsenetReviewz. Another option is a coupon for that is 50% off for the first two months for monthly term accounts. After two months, the regular price applies. This coupon is not valid for longer term accounts since they
are already discounted. These services have been implemented by Harvest.
Affiliate Discounts: This will apply discounts when a user comes from one of the affiliate sites who are registered with ThunderNews when coupon code is associated. This service has been implemented by Harvest.
Checkout Process: SSL checkout process. Harvest Integrated LinkPoint, PayPal and WorldPay APIs.
Other Nice Features:Access to over 100,000 + newsgroups. 24 x & live customer support. Storage Ninja – The Storage Ninja service will give you access to over 30 GB of anonymous and rapid online storage with Storage Ninja – a service similar to Amazon S3. This service has been implemented by Harvest.
Results
Thundernews offers quality Usenet services with over 910 days of binary retention and nearly 4 years of text posts. You can expect good customer service when needed and SSL encrypted access from the United States or Europe. Speed is good with up to 50 connections (not that you'll need anywhere near that many). Add to that a free registered copy of News Rover Usenet client. Thundernews also has some very competitive pricing including unlimited Usenet access for $10.49 via NewsgroupReviews.com.
