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We're sorry, but Wufoo is not for your country or region.

2 pointswaqasaday7 comments

"We're sorry, but Wufoo is not currently accepting new signups from your country or region."

This is what I see, when I try to signup for Wufoo (an online form builder) from Pakistan.

Startups are coming to exist in every country today, so why a company doesn't offer its service to specific country(ies).

They should know that in countries like mine, there is much more need to help first time entrepreneurs.

An approach like Wufoo's is very sad and lame, and it closes the connection for forever before it actually starts.

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IMO, there are a lot more things a company needs to consider before considering expanding to other countries and regions. For example, will there be a need for translation services? what about payment issues? Is there enough of a demand in your country/region for this product? Scaling requires a lot more money- it's not just something to take lightly. Take eBay for example's failed attempt at entering China's market: http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/09/12/how-ebay-failed...

If you can find a lot of people who really desire the same service as you, you can all email them at Wufoo. This would make a better argument that their product is needed in Pakistan rather than just saying tools must be global.

I wish you good luck though and hope it works out for you.

Frankly, it's their service and they can do what they want. If they don't want to serve to Pakistan/etc, it's fine by me and should be fine by you too. Whatever happened to "I don't like your business model so I'm going with a competitor instead"?

I have sent the url of this entry to Wufoo team, using their feedback page. I hope someone shall respond.

I imagine because of fraud.

It is not the solution at all, in any way. For example: Banning Iran from your online services is making it difficult for change makers to succeed.

Tools must be global.

For you to say with such certainty that Wufoo's reasoning for not enabling accounts from Pakistan is not due to fraud is just plain misleading. You either don't know why, or you've been told why and are hiding the true reason from us.

And what do you mean, "Tools must be global"? You aren't paying Wufoo's bills or salaries - what right do you have to demand that they make their service available where/when they do not wish to? Also, Wufoo is a service, not a tool IMO. A tool is something like grep.

This reminds me of how Facebook was having issues with apps sending message spam within Facebook, so they prevented apps from initiating messages and instead forced apps to spam outside of Facebook (by just asking for and using your email). Out of sight, out of mind!

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