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by ckenst 5329 days ago
Sounds like a good hack. How much did you spend and how much additional storage did you get?
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teach 5329 days ago
He wrote "for about 20 bucks", so I suspect he spent around $20. And "maxed out my Dropbox referrals" seems to imply that he did it up to the maximum for Dropbox referrals, which is 8 GB.
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ben1040 5329 days ago
You've got the first part right, but I also happen to work for a university so I associated my .edu email address to my Dropbox account. Doing that will double your referral bonus to 500MB per referral, and double your maximum free space from referrals to 16GB.
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docgnome 5329 days ago
Did that happen right away that you got more space from your .edu? i put mine it and it didn't seem to do anything.
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preek 5329 days ago
For me it did happen instantly.
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docgnome 5329 days ago
Huh. Did the text that says what you get change? Like from 250 to 500? Maybe I just don't know how much space I had heh.
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preek 5329 days ago
The text changed from 250 to 500, also my available space doubled. I didn't even get an email to tell me, it just happened.
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ckenst 5329 days ago
I'm assuming it will be more than "about 20 bucks" once people find out about this! On the plus side its free money from Google right?
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