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I replied: saying something along the lines of "damn this is cheap! you could charge a lot more!". No reply of course. He's probably heard it a million times already.

I do hear that quite a bit, but I also hear a lot of people saying that Tarsnap is too expensive. I figure that as long as I have complaints coming from both directions I'm probably somewhere close to the right price. ;-)

Sorry about not replying -- I usually do reply even to emails like that, but it's possible that I was overwhelmed with email at the time.

- Higher prices mean less value for your users. Less value means less geek cred/love. I'd recommend Tarsnap to a fellow techie in a heartbeat. I probably wouldn't if it started at $100/mo.

This is part of it -- Tarsnap wouldn't get nearly as much free advertising if its prices were higher.

- What if he's doing this as a lead gen for his consulting services?

No, I'm not doing that. In fact I do very little consulting these days.