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Comment by sdegutis | Hacker News Reader

Look. As a non-business, I recognize the fact that Dropbox is useful for both personal users and businesses. But every, single, time, that I login to their website, they INSIST on suggesting "hey why don't you try Dropbox for Business?" to me. This level of stupidity shakes my confidence in the competence of their upper management, and in Dropbox's future.

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> This level of stupidity

Why do you assume this is stupidity? Just because it annoys you doesn't make it stupid. For one, Dropbox makes exponentially more money from a Business user than an individual.

Because I'm definitely an individual user, and not a business.

But on every page, Dropbox's website has a box, that either says:

    Dropbox Business is here!

    [Free Trial]

    Dropbox Business is here! Only $12.50/month.

    [Upgrade now]

No matter how compelling an offer that is, it's completely irrelevant to me, since I am NOT a business.

That doesn't mean it's stupid to ask. Extrapolating what annoys you to the totality of users would be far, far dumber.

Ok, maybe someday Dropbox will link you to a public LinkedIn page, figure out that you are unlikely to run a business, and stop advertising that product to you. But until they have that capability, they seem to have come to the conclusion that marketting to everyone in the hopes that you are part of the highly profitable few % is worthwhile.

Indeed. It's clearly not annoying enough to deter anyone from logging in if they're still complaining about it.

I pay for dropbox and they do that to me, as well. Why would I want to be a business customer if I'm a paid normal user?

Somewhat annoying but maybe it's working for them.

I doubt it's actually helping them at all. If anything, they just don't notice, because their business is primarily made up of Dropbox for Business accounts, so even if a paid personal user like me leaves because it's that's so annoying, they're not hurt by it at all. But even then, I rarely use their web interface, so it's not enough to push me away.

Yea I wonder what's up with that........

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