How much is your GMail worth?

elfprince13 · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:05:49 pm Post subject: How much is your GMail worth?

Take this short quiz and find out. My results: https://gmail-value.backupify.com/worths/use1kn255j

I left the wage value unchanged to reflect median wage, which provides a lot better valuation than my college-student research stipend.
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Tari · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:32:45 pm Post subject:

My result. (A bargain, at $780; old-school, balanced (contacts) and succinct (message size))
I also left the wage value unchanged, since I'm also a student.

Calculating the value only based on outgoing messages (as they say it is) seems less than ideal to me, since you very rarely care about messages you've already sent. The greater cost of losing that data would be recovering the things you don't still know (which are unlikely to be things that you sent in messages, and more likely to have been received).

The service the company sells is pretty neat, too- ensuring data remains available in all its forms is something I'm consistently concerned about. My solution to the problem involves a daily cron job to back up all my mail with offlineimap, though.
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KermMartian · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:22:27 pm Post subject:

I think their application isn't robust, as it read MM/DD/06 as MM/DD/0006 instead of 2006. Razz

Anyway, mine is apparently worth $1245, but I'm also a bargain due to my student "salary". Also, I'm old-school, as I've had my account for so long, and an extrovert, since I have 1100+ contacts. I'd love to see their formula for the money numbers, though, and see if it isn't just something arbitrary to get people to learn more about their backup services.
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Tari · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:27:06 pm Post subject:

They calculate it as the cost of paying you to rewrite all of your sent messages:

Ashbad · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:44:42 pm Post subject:

I'm quite the bargain. $8.26.
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comicIDIOT · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 06:19:49 pm Post subject:

I'm a bargain at $1,500 but quite verbose. Interesting thing to "monetize."
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souvik1997 · Guru-in-Training Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 2870

I'm a bargain at $243.26.
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Tari · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 08:14:35 pm Post subject:

souvik1997 · Guru-in-Training Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 2870

Oh, oops.

That should have been 2008, not 0008.
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benryves · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:23:40 pm Post subject:

qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

haha, I happen to be... free!

https://gmail-value.backupify.com/worths/fgbm9oxvzw

this might stem from the fact I made it only a while ago after a miserable amount of time with yahoo mail (why I was thinking that using yahoo mail was a good idea, I have no clue...)
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juju2143 · Posted: 25 Jul 2012 10:23:45 pm Post subject:

$292.71. I have a kinda low wavge due to being a student... I'm a bargain 0x5. I thought I was using gmail a lot 0x5.

Also I guess the amount increases exponentially when you have a lot of attachments (like benryves who filled up half of his disk space allowance). Also yay being old-school. I have this account since 2005 oh wow.
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Kllrnohj · $/=\$ PH34R |\/|3 Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 8189

Personal: https://gmail-value.backupify.com/worths/xe4w9lqsh2
$1,787.64 and I am old school.

Work: ~$15,549 (it's, uh, high volume)

DJ_O · Posted: 26 Jul 2012 02:17:25 am Post subject:

https://gmail-value.backupify.com/worths/7n3dnggnus

$2,527.81. I'm a bargain, am old-school, an introvert (contacts) and am succint (average message size)

Note: that exclude every spam, in case anyone get ideas.
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Aes_Sedia5 · Posted: 26 Jul 2012 10:15:29 am Post subject:

I have to say to this result is.

LAWL

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lafferjm · Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:20:26 am Post subject:

$2.35
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elfprince13 · Posted: 26 Jul 2012 12:14:53 pm Post subject:

annoyingcalc · Advanced Newbie Joined: 19 May 2011 Posts: 64

https://gmail-value.backupify.com/worths/gtyx1i1dqf
only $14.31 D:

blue_bear_94 · Member Joined: 20 Apr 2012 Posts: 162

Mine is worth $899.01, compared to the average value of $3588.85; I spent 1,265 days compared to the average 1,095 days; I have 313 contacts opposed to the average 434 contacts; my average message size is 29.7 KB, lower than the average of 92.2 KB.
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Ashbad · Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:18:08 pm Post subject:

How do you guys have so many contacts? I only have 30 and I thought that was a decent number. Are they mostly from work, friends, other things? I have about 5 that are friends, 4 from work, rest from other things like EqD staff, things from my church, etc.
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