I am now blocking evite invitations. I’m sorry to my friends that try to invite me to things, but I just can’t deal with them any more. I’m not doing it to try to change them for the better, I just have no desire to take part.
Anytime I receive an evite invitation, my email account will automatically send the following message and delete the invite.
Hi!
It appears you tried to send me an evite.com invitation. I’m sorry, but all evite.com invitations have been blocked at this email address.I apologize for the inconvenience–I do it for the following reasons:
- They sell your personal information.
- They are owned by TicketMaster (IAC/InterActiveCorp).
- They haven’t bothered making any major enhancements to their platform in years and are stagnant. There are much better alternatives.
- They require users to click through the emails to their lousy site just to see the details. This stinks on a mobile device.
If you wish to invite me to something, I recommend one of the following methods, in order of preference:
- Email me.
- Call me.
- Text me.
- Message me on another service, such as Facebook.com or Twitter.
- If you want to use a website, I personally recommend anyvite.com. You can very easily import your evite contacts and it takes mere seconds to set up a really nice invitation. Best of all, guests can see all of the details of the event in the email that gets sent.
To read more, check out the following sites:
- Evite Alternatives
- Wired Magazine – Why Things Suck: Evite
Cheers and have a wonderful event!
-Chuck
Dan Morin | 04-Jan-09 at 1:10 pm | Permalink
Hey Chuck, thanks for mentioning Anyvite! I think what you’re doing is great and it’s going to take tough moves like this to get some people to stop using this site that causes so many headaches for people.
If anyone gets a chance to try http://anyvite.com and has any questions of comments, let us know at support@anyvite.com. Thanks again Chuck!
Dan
Mickey | 06-Jan-09 at 8:52 am | Permalink
responses to couple of yr points of fact:
- evite is nor ever was owned by ticketmaster. evite is owned by IAC, which also owned ticketmaster at some point.
- they’ve had a new mobile site for a few months now, which gives you all your event info in one shot
Chuck | 06-Jan-09 at 10:22 am | Permalink
Mickey,
On point one, as of August, 2008 it was still owned by IAC which owned Ticketmaster. I mention that it was owned by IAC, but as far as I’m concerned if two organizations are owned by the same umbrella corporation, the meaning of my point stands.
That said, your point made me re-research the matter and I discovered that in August 2008, IAC actually spun off Ticketmaster. So that point is no longer valid anyway.
On point two, if it’s true, I didn’t notice because I’ve been ignoring evites for nearly a year now (I just hadn’t formally acknowledged it). If that is the case, I’m glad to see they have finally decided to innovate some, but that doesn’t change my stance. While they may have finally made a change or two, I still don’t believe they will ever try to do right by their users–that is the bottom line. They may just be feeling some heat because there is finally some worthy competition in the space.